The rising artist Dan Ola is making waves in the pop music world, and people are beginning to really notice this. 21-year-old Aura grew up in a small village in England, and later moved to a larger and more diverse Brighton, and finally began to spread his musical wings, released several hit singles and brand new EP plastic, everywhere visible.

Musically similar to the smooth pop music of Troye Sivan, Conan Gray and even Harry Styles, Aura incorporates his own queer identity and experience into his sentimental song creation. Aura's EP is full of bright 80s style synthesizers and fascinating hooks, exploring everything from stereotypes to relationships, authenticity, and the LGBTQ+ community. "I really don't care what these heterosexual boys think," he sang in the plastic opening remarks, "Heterosexual boys," and then announced, "My pink sparkles." Related | Conan Gray brings it to "Overdrive"" Song writing has never been the easiest thing for me," Aura told PAPER. “I’m not the kind of person who treats them naturally at the age of 15. It does take a while, and that’s why this project is so important to me. I have to talk about things that I’ve always wanted to talk about, talk about something I think many queer artists might Things I don’t want to talk about. The process of writing these songs is quite simple, because everything flows directly from my heart to paper, I think it’s self-evident." Aura continued to add: "As a part of the queer community Members, I feel obligated to write certain things and not to obscure any aspect of my life for fear of being judged or prejudiced. In my opinion, for queer artists, they yell in songs and say How proud they live with their true self is too much, so this is something I will always do." To celebrate his new EP, Dan Aura broke down Plastic one by one below. "Straight Boys" "Straight Boys" is my closed physical manifestation of many things that happened in school when I was a teenager. Writing is very cathartic. Personally, it is aimed at a specific group of people who really make my life messy, but this song is really suitable for people who have felt excluded because of their true, true self. It’s about taking all the stereotypes of LGBTQ+ people and saying a little, "So what?" I want to create a song that I would like when I grew up as a queer kid, I think I did a great job . When I think about how much I have changed in the past 10 years and what I have gone through to get to where I am today as an open queer artist, it still makes me burst into tears sometimes. "I want to create a song that I would like to grow up as a queer kid." "Feel It" is very interesting to create in the studio because it uses a lot of effects that I have never explored in music before. This is about the feelings I have had several times before, because of those butterflies and obsessions, you quickly entered a relationship without really understanding your true feelings. It can be very painful to hope you feel the same to someone as they feel to you, I want to summarize. In fact, many people ask me whether I sing in poetry or other people’s voice is deeper, so I am here to clarify: it is actually me, just using sound effects to reduce it. "I hope you feel the same to someone as they feel to you. It may be very painful. I want to summarize it." "Plastic" "Plastic" is EP's title song, which explores our minds when writing the project Some themes played in. Growing up in the Internet age is very interesting for me, because the media has shown us role models and standards, which ultimately hurt many young people. In this song, I talked about not wanting to be a plastic copy of what we present, and how important authenticity should be to everyone. We should all question the applicability of today's example, because many of them have harmed an entire generation with constant Photoshop, extreme political views, and physical standards. The problem is that it is difficult to know what is real and what is fabricated on the Internet. We should first consider why there is this standard and what we can do as a community to get rid of it. "We should all question the applicability of today's role models." "Unfair" "Unfair" is about my very unstable relationship with someone a few years ago, and he just didn't put me at the top of his list. During our friendship, I fell in love with him, which may not help. This is about putting all your energy into a relationship or friendship with someone without getting anything in return. I believe many people will be related to it. This is absolutely exhausting when you are always the first to make a plan or send a message to them, and sometimes you just need to take a step back and reassess the situation. If the effort between the two of you is not equal, they are not worth your time. "If the efforts of the two of you are not equal, they are not worth your time." Photo courtesy of Dan Ola

Musically similar to the smooth pop music of Troye Sivan, Conan Gray and even Harry Styles, Aura incorporates his own queer identity and experience into his sentimental song creation. Aura's EP is full of bright 80s style synthesizers and fascinating hooks, exploring everything from stereotypes to relationships, authenticity, and the LGBTQ+ community. "I really don't care what these heterosexual boys think," he sang in the plastic opening remarks, "heterosexual boys," and then declared, "My pink is shining."

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"Song writing has never been the easiest thing for me," Aura told PAPER. “I’m not the kind of person who treats them naturally at the age of 15. It does take a while, and that’s why this project is so important to me. I have to talk about things that I’ve always wanted to talk about, talk about something I think many queer artists might Things I don’t want to talk about. The process of writing these songs is quite simple, because everything flows directly from my heart on paper, I think it’s self-evident."

Aura continued to add: “As a member of the queer community, I feel obligated to write certain things and not to obscure any aspect of my life because of the fear of being judged or prejudiced. In my opinion, we are very interested in queer artists. It’s too much to say that they are yelling in songs and saying how proud they are living with their true selves, so this is something I will always do."

To celebrate his new EP, Dan Aura broke down Plastic one by one below.

"Heterosexual Boy" is my closed body reflection of many things that happened in school when I was a teenager. Writing is very cathartic. Personally, it is aimed at a specific group of people who really make my life messy, but this song is really suitable for people who have felt excluded because of their true, true self. It’s about taking all the stereotypes of LGBTQ+ people and saying a little, "So what?" I want to create a song that I would like when I grew up as a queer kid, I think I did a very good job . When I think about how much I have changed in the past 10 years and what I have gone through to get to where I am today as an open queer artist, it still makes me burst into tears sometimes.

It is very interesting to create this in the studio because it uses many effects that I have never explored in music before. This is about the feelings I have had several times before, because of those butterflies and obsessions, you quickly entered a relationship without really understanding your true feelings. It can be very painful to hope you feel the same to someone as they feel to you, I want to summarize. In fact, many people ask me whether I sing in poetry or other people’s voice is deeper, so I am here to clarify: it is actually me, just using sound effects to reduce it.

"Plastic" is EP's title song, and it explores some of the themes we played in our minds when writing the project. Growing up in the Internet age is very interesting for me, because the media has shown us role models and standards, which ultimately hurt many young people. In this song, I talked about not wanting to be a plastic copy of what we present, and how important authenticity should be to everyone. We should all question the applicability of today's example, because many of them have harmed an entire generation with constant Photoshop, extreme political views, and physical standards. The problem is that it is difficult to know what is real and what is fabricated on the Internet. We should first consider why there is this standard and what we can do as a community to get rid of it.

"Unfair" is about my very unstable relationship with someone a few years ago, he just didn't put me at the top of his list. During our friendship, I fell in love with him, which may not help. This is about putting all your energy into a relationship or friendship with someone without getting anything in return. I believe many people will be related to it. This is absolutely exhausting when you are always the first to make a plan or send a message to them, and sometimes you just need to take a step back and reassess the situation. If the effort between the two of you is not equal, they are not worth your time.

Photo courtesy of Dan Ola