Aliyah’s Interlude stopped by Genius to discuss her hit “IT GIRL,” which has been streamed over 32 million times on Spotify to date! The IT girl herself broke down what it means to be an AliyahCore IT girl from the fashion down to the persona.
“AliyahCore is also not just a fashion trend. AliyahCore it is a lifestyle so you just living authentically in your truth and being that bitch is AliyahCore too. So we all doing AliyahCore some type of way.”
“AliyahCore is also not just a fashion trend. AliyahCore it is a lifestyle so you just living authentically in your truth and being that bitch is AliyahCore too. So we all doing AliyahCore some type of way.”
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00:00 I'm a fashion icon, I'm a stylist, gas lighter.
00:03 Like I do it all y'all.
00:05 So this is my pop star era
00:07 and I really hope y'all enjoying it.
00:09 (upbeat music)
00:11 It Girl was the perfect introduction to my music era
00:18 because this song is like a representation
00:20 of who I am as a person.
00:22 For the longest time, like I've just been in the internet,
00:24 the public eye, I've been like the internet's It Girl.
00:26 That's what It Girl is, it's an embodiment of all of that.
00:30 Aaliyah's Interlude in this bitch.
00:33 You already know.
00:35 Aaliyah Core today, tomorrow, yesterday and forever, period.
00:40 The fuck?
00:42 Aaliyah Core is a subset of fashion created by me,
00:46 Aaliyah's Interlude.
00:47 It is basically just alternative fashion
00:50 mixed with Harajuku fashion,
00:52 mixed with street wear all into one.
00:54 And then we have like the staple pieces too.
00:56 We have the garter, the fur, the fishnets.
00:59 Aaliyah Core is also not just a fashion trend.
01:02 Aaliyah Core is a lifestyle.
01:03 So you just living authentically in your truth
01:06 and being that bitch is Aaliyah Core too.
01:09 So we all doing Aaliyah Core some type of way.
01:12 Bitch, you know I'm sexy.
01:15 Ugh, don't call, just text me, bitch.
01:17 You slow can't get on my speed.
01:19 They stare 'cause they know I'm the bitch.
01:22 You know I'm sexy.
01:23 Like, I don't know, I just feel like
01:24 that's the realest thing I've said in a very long time.
01:26 I haven't been like clouded up or been an influencer
01:29 or been a musician forever.
01:31 So before I was doing all that,
01:32 I was just outside dressing like this.
01:35 And like when I would walk out in outfits like this,
01:36 like people would like record me.
01:39 They'll stare at me.
01:40 Like you could hear them talking to their friends about me.
01:41 I'm like, okay, I know I'm sexy.
01:44 Like, and then I just had to internalize
01:45 like they're staring because I'm that bitch.
01:47 Like they've never seen something like this.
01:49 So it's like, okay, I'm gonna give you a little excuse,
01:51 I guess.
01:54 ITGIRL.
01:54 You know I am that girl.
01:57 Shh, bitch don't kiss and tell.
01:59 It Girl from ATL.
02:01 I feel like an It Girl is somebody who genuinely
02:04 just doesn't give a fuck about being perceived.
02:07 Being an It Girl has just a lot to do
02:09 with how you feel inside.
02:11 People can crown you the It Girl,
02:12 but if you don't feel like the It Girl,
02:13 are you really the It Girl?
02:15 Like, no shade.
02:17 ♪ How you mad at me? ♪
02:19 ♪ 'Cause I'm cunt, bitch ♪
02:20 ♪ How you mad at me? ♪
02:20 ♪ 'Cause I run shit ♪
02:21 ♪ Be mad at yourself ♪
02:22 ♪ 'Cause you ain't done shit ♪
02:23 ♪ Talking all that shit ♪
02:24 ♪ It's redundant ♪
02:25 When you're a cunt bitch,
02:27 like people will find any way to hate on you.
02:29 Like, oh my gosh, she's so cunt.
02:31 Let's just fucking hate on her.
02:32 Oh my gosh, she's too cunt.
02:33 We need to hate on her.
02:34 Like, if you were an actual cunt bitch,
02:36 you would wanna fuck with other cunt bitches.
02:38 Like you wouldn't wanna be hating.
02:39 You know what I mean?
02:40 There's miserable bitches
02:41 and then there's cunt bitches
02:42 and there's not one without the other.
02:43 I give these bitches life, period.
02:45 You can't be mad at me 'cause I'm cunt
02:47 when if I wasn't cunt,
02:48 you would have no reason to be miserable.
02:49 It's like algebra.
02:50 It's like algebra.
02:51 It's basically algebra.
02:53 ♪ Trendsetter bitch, don't be acting surprised ♪
02:56 ♪ Aliacorn to the moon, wanna see my demise ♪
02:58 ♪ But I don't give a fuck, bitch ♪
03:00 ♪ Look in my eyes ♪
03:00 ♪ I'm a star girl, bitch ♪
03:01 ♪ 'Bout time you realize ♪
03:03 I started feeling like a star
03:04 when I started dressing up for myself.
03:06 Because I started dressing up in high school
03:08 and I would do like the most Y2K outfits
03:12 and I'd go to school.
03:13 They was hating, but I was still that bitch, you know?
03:15 And I felt like just being different
03:17 makes me feel like a star girl.
03:19 ♪ That bitch today, tomorrow, and the day after that ♪
03:23 ♪ Don't give a fuck 'bout all you little hoes ♪
03:26 ♪ And that's a fact ♪
03:27 ♪ Not arguing with bitches ♪
03:29 ♪ Who too scared to show they face ♪
03:31 ♪ Bitch, if you said that in real life ♪
03:33 ♪ I swear you would get maced, bitch ♪
03:36 I hate comments that come from people
03:38 who have no qualifications to hate on me.
03:40 First of all, you don't be dressed in,
03:42 you're not alternative, but you wanna hate on me.
03:44 Like, you would never have the confidence
03:46 to do the stuff I do, so therefore,
03:47 what you're saying is irrelevant.
03:49 And it be people who don't even show they face.
03:51 Like, I'm not finna argue with Naruto and Sasuke, like,
03:54 bitch, if you're not gonna show your face,
03:55 I'm not arguing with you, period.
03:57 You don't even like yourself, you feel me?
03:59 So it's like, I'm not about to argue
04:00 with a bitch who don't like themself, that's crazy.
04:02 ♪ Pretty bitches love me and ugly hoes hate me ♪
04:05 ♪ But while y'all busy hatin' ♪
04:07 ♪ I'm flying across the country to be in vogue, bitch ♪
04:11 ♪ To walk in shows 'cause I'm that bitch ♪
04:14 You already know.
04:15 The fuck?
04:16 Sometimes when things happen to me,
04:18 I see it in like a third person perspective
04:20 because I'm like, am I in vogue for real?
04:22 Like, did I really just walk in LenderFest week?
04:24 Oh my God.
04:25 It feels warranted because I work hard
04:28 for everything that I do,
04:29 but also it just feels surreal
04:31 that like so many people support me
04:33 and so many people like really love Aaliyah Core
04:35 to the point where it's like,
04:36 they asking me to walk in a show.
04:37 Like, it just felt really good
04:39 and I can't wait to walk in more shows
04:40 and to be seated front row in more shows.
04:43 Don't be mad at me 'cause I'm cunt, bitch.
04:47 Don't be mad at me 'cause I run shit.
04:49 Be mad at yourself 'cause you ain't done shit.
04:51 Talking all that shit, it's redundant.
04:53 In the second post-chorus, I use don't instead of how
04:56 because as I'm writing the song,
04:58 I'm like, why am I even asking people like, how are you?
05:01 I don't care.
05:02 Like, I really don't care.
05:04 I'm gonna tell you straight up like,
05:05 don't be mad at me 'cause I'm cunt.
05:06 Like, you need to get what you got situated going on
05:09 and handle that and then let me be cunt in peace.
05:12 You feel me?
05:12 So fix your inner issues
05:14 and then come back to the drawing board
05:15 so we can be cunt together.
05:16 When you a bad bitch,
05:19 you don't never give a fuck about a mad bitch.
05:21 Stay true to yourself, you a savage.
05:23 Don't never let these hoes see you down, bitch.
05:25 I can't even stress the hate.
05:27 When you know who you are,
05:28 like you know you a savage,
05:30 you know you're that bitch,
05:31 you know you're that girl,
05:32 why would you care about
05:33 what somebody has to say about you?
05:34 I just ask myself inner questions,
05:36 inner questions from trauma, from childhood.
05:39 And I'm like, why are you like this?
05:40 Why do you react to situations like this?
05:42 I did the inner work to heal.
05:44 Because I did the work to heal inside,
05:47 I'm never gonna be the type of person
05:48 to project miserable things onto the world, onto everybody.
05:52 If I'm not feeling good, I'm gonna take time to recoup,
05:54 then I'm gonna get back together,
05:55 be a bad bitch, and get to what the fuck I gotta do.
05:58 'Cause nothing stops for you, you feel me?
06:00 You gotta keep on going 'cause you're that girl.
06:03 Like, cry a little bit 'cause we all gonna be crying,
06:05 but just know at the end of the day,
06:08 you gotta put the work in and you gotta show up.
06:10 No excuses.
06:11 (upbeat music)
06:13 It Girl is like a sliver of what I have in store.
06:17 I'm going to make the most girly, cunt, silliest,
06:21 most amazing pop star music
06:23 that people are not gonna expect from me.
06:26 And I'm gonna have different eras.
06:27 Like, please get ready 'cause it's about to get so good.