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BANKS On What Happens When You Give Your Fans Your Phone Number

play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0004:21repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser¹ to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: 

Jillian Banks, better known simply as Banks, writes atmospheric², confessional songs that mix pop, electronic and R&B. She started making music as a teenager, using songs as a kind of diary where she could explore her heart and trace the emotional world around her.

JILLIAN BANKS: When I first discovered music, I was probably 14. And I was going through a lot - stuff with my family and learning how to view social situations and feeling kind of lonely.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "GEMINI FEED")

BANKS: (Singing) Open up your eyes. There's nothing on my body left to see.

I had asked for a keyboard in the past or something. And I found it in my closet. And I just kind of started playing with the keys. And it fulfilled something in me that I had never really felt before. And it was where I was the most honest. It was where I felt the most hurt. It's like my therapy, almost.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "GEMINI FEED")

BANKS: (Singing) If you would've let me grow, you could've kept my love.

As that was happening, college came. And I wanted to study psychology³ because I'm interested in how relationships develop, how the brain develops, how people communicate. And it's funny 'cause a lot of people ask me if studying psychology has affected⁴ my music at all.

And you would think that maybe it had to do with my music just because my music - it's pretty graphic⁵, especially at describing different dynamics⁶ and emotions and stuff. But I think that's just how I think. I don't think it's about studying psychology.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "MIND GAMES")

BANKS: (Singing) I don't understand. You claim that I'm a handful when you show up all empty-handed. The way you say you love me like you've just been reprimanded. 'Cause I know you like mind games.

Initially⁷, when my music was coming out, I didn't have a Facebook. I didn't have an Instagram. I didn't have a Twitter. It just doesn't seem natural to the type of human that I am. And so we kind of, like, thought of a way to connect to fans that felt more genuine and authentic⁸ and natural for me.

And that was just putting my number up and, you know, having people text me if it's safe. You know, if you connect to my music, let me know.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "MIND GAMES")

BANKS: People definitely text me really intimate things. And something that I am still learning and I've had to learn is, like, how to, like, put boundaries up when, you know, you're putting yourself out there so much and you're putting what matters most to you out.

It's like my diary entries. That's what my music is to me. And when you're putting that part of yourself out there for so many people to touch and judge and talk about and talk to you about, it, like - I needed to learn how to kind of protect myself.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "TO THE HILT")

BANKS: (Singing) Hated you for leaving me. You were my muse⁹ for so long. Now I'm drained creatively. I miss you on my team.

Sometimes when I write, it's like a voice that I need to hear myself. It's like I write from the perspective of the most nurturing¹⁰, empowering, lifting-you-up-type voice. And that's what's so great about making music - is you could give that to yourself. And I feel like if I need that song, then maybe other people need that song 'cause I'm just, like, a human trying to live in this strange world.

And it's not like I try to write something so I could give it to other people. I write it for myself. And I think that me just being like other people - then maybe it's good for them, as well.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "TO THE HILT")

BANKS: (Singing) We backed each other to the hilt.

SIMON: Thanks. Her album - "The Altar."

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "TO THE HILT")

BANKS: (Singing) Now I live in the house we built.

1 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

2 atmospheric   

adj.大气的，空气的；大气层的；大气所引起的

参考例句：

• Sea surface temperatures and atmospheric circulation are strongly coupled.海洋表面温度与大气环流是密切相关的。
• Clouds return radiant energy to the surface primarily via the atmospheric window.云主要通过大气窗区向地表辐射能量。

3 psychology   

n.心理，心理学，心理状态

参考例句：

• She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
• He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。

4 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

5 graphic   

adj.生动的，形象的，绘画的，文字的，图表的

参考例句：

• The book gave a graphic description of the war.这本书生动地描述了战争的情况。
• Distinguish important text items in lists with graphic icons.用图标来区分重要的文本项。

6 dynamics   

n.力学，动力学，动力，原动力；动态

参考例句：

• In order to succeed,you must master complicated knowledge of dynamics.要取得胜利，你必须掌握很复杂的动力学知识。
• Dynamics is a discipline that cannot be mastered without extensive practice.动力学是一门不做大量习题就不能掌握的学科。

7 initially   

adv.最初，开始

参考例句：

• The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
• Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。

8 authentic   

a.真的，真正的；可靠的，可信的，有根据的

参考例句：

• This is an authentic news report. We can depend on it. 这是篇可靠的新闻报道, 我们相信它。
• Autumn is also the authentic season of renewal. 秋天才是真正的除旧布新的季节。

9 muse   

n.缪斯（希腊神话中的女神），创作灵感

参考例句：

• His muse had deserted him,and he could no longer write.他已无灵感，不能再写作了。
• Many of the papers muse on the fate of the President.很多报纸都在揣测总统的命运。

10 nurturing   

养育( nurture的现在分词 )； 培育； 滋长； 助长

参考例句：

• These delicate plants need careful nurturing. 这些幼嫩的植物需要精心培育。
• The modern conservatory is not an environment for nurturing plants. 这个现代化温室的环境不适合培育植物。