Pop starlet Griff sat down with SPIN as part of our Decades of Sound collaboration with Bose, celebrating 60 years of the speaker and music equipment company. The UK-born singer-songwriter, who opened for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in June, discusses all things the 2000s, or the “noughties” as they say in the UK, which is Griff’s favorite decade of music.
Back in March, Griff was a guest on our Lipps Service podcast, when she discussed in length about her biggest musical inspiration, Taylor Swift. Close followers of Griff know that she’s been a Swiftie her whole life, and for Griff, the admiration became mutual over the last few years, as Swift has supported her music on her social media.
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“With Taylor, [Fearless] was like the first proper album that I really fell in love with,” Griff says. “So to know now that she’s been such a supporter of my music and she asked me to open for the Eras Tour is just mind blowing.”
Griff says she spent the latter part of the decade going down the YouTube rabbit hole on her family’s shared computer, which is how she discovered most of her earliest musical influences. Alongside Swift, Griff names Beyoncé and Alicia Keys as the most influential artists of the ‘00s.
“I would come home from school and Google the chords to Alicia Keys songs,” Griff says.
Griff’s top three albums of the 00’s? She lists I Am Sasha Fierce by Beyoncé, Fearless (International Version) by Taylor Swift, and Year of the Gentleman by Ne-Yo.
Join us through the Decades of Sound, hearing from impactful artists about their favorite eras of music in celebration of Bose’s 60th anniversary.
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