Billboard cover star and the ‘Future of Hopecore’ artist, Flawed Mangoes, is bringing out the emotions through his music. He sits down and shares his thoughts on “Killswitch Lullaby” going viral on TikTok, meeting with Kai Cenat, his creative solo process and more!

Flawed Mangoes:

You know what it says? Yes, I know what this is. I was kind of just posting these guitar riff videos, and then people started messaging me, being like, oh, did you know that there’s this movement called hopecore that’s, like, really closely associated with your music. Like all these posts are using your music in the background. Hopecore is a funny thing to me. It’s just this content that’s like, really trying to focus on, like, the motivational, inspirational type of message and spread positivity through, you know, motivational speeches or, like, inspiring videos and things like that. It kind of blurs the line for me between, like, you know, music genre and like, sort of just like a like, an ethos. I’ve had a lot of people express to me that it’s interesting how many emotions I can convey without actually using words in music. And I think I’ve always been someone who, like, was always really keyed in on melodies, and didn’t always pay attention to words that much. And so I’ve always kind of been used to, like, extracting emotions from just the music itself. That kind of made it a good canvas for people to, you know, put quotes or speeches over. So that definitely helps. I feel like all of my like, sort of, I consider them peers, on TikTok who are kind of, you know, creating instrumental music in similar spaces, like it’s funny because a lot of their content tends to lean more towards the sort of melancholy side. 

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