Nilüfer Yanya: "There's such a parallel between making music and method acting"

NILÜFER YANYA delivers her most vulnerable performance yet in new single 'Method Actor', taken from her just-announced third album, 'My Method Actor'. Check out our latest Dork Mixtape cover feature.

Words: Ciaran Picker.
Photos: Molly Daniel.

Every day, we put on a front. Whether it's going to work, meeting friends or family, or even to ourselves in the bathroom mirror, we're always trying to present an acceptable version of our life to anyone watching. For Nilüfer Yanya, though, those days are gone. In her new single, 'Method Actor', she drops the façade, exploring who she is deep down.

Even for an artist like Nilüfer, who has gathered an army of fans by producing soulful guitar music with a centre eminently darker than the shiny exterior would have you believe, bearing her soul without over-complicating the message hasn't been easy. Drawing on the theory behind method acting, a craft that embodies the battle between risk and reward, her new single explores the relationship between the art and the artist in a starkly raw way.

"There's such a parallel between making music and method acting, because you're always digging into that one defining moment in your life that's going to make what you're working on come to life. It's all about what you have to do to be authentic, to find your own origin."