Tinashe

Tinashe's inescapable "2 On" was one of the defining songs of 2014, and her unpredictably smoky Aquarius, was the year's best R&B album as well. A fledgling perfectionist whose label let her take her time with her debut, the former child actress has managed to get along with collaborators as disparate as Nick Jonas, Calvin Harris and, um, Charlie Sheen. SPIN caught up with the 21-year-old over the phone to learn how much hard work goes into making such relaxing music, and how she spent the best year of her life thus far.

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Aquarius was two years in the making, what kind of strings did you have to pull to get people off your back about rushing it? I was lucky to have a label that wanted to make sure when I presented my debut that I felt I was ready. They never put that much pressure on me to hurry or to rush. The most pressure came from myself, because obviously I was ready to move to the next chapter of my life. I wanted to put something out that was amazing and I had to take time until it was really ready.

Is it true that you didn't listen to any outside music while you were working on it? Well, not any. [Laughs.] I listened to music at the end of the day. I'm always trying to discover new stuff in magazines, blogs. But when I was doing the album, I didn't focus on that as much I was really more into creating my own.

What would you put on at the end of the day? I was trying to go back to my old school taste. Like, I always listened to Sade, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson. People my parents played in the house growing up I always come back to that.

I love how Aquarius bridges different eras of R&B with current sounds. Like "2 On" reminds me of a lot of millennial jams, like "AM to PM." I don't know if it was necessary intentional, but I tried to have versatility within the music while still being consistent. I feel like at the end of the day, I always would try to make music that I wanted to listen to, stuff that I liked and wanted to hear.

Like Sean Paul? You quote him in "2 On." While we were writing the song I thought it was a really relatable melody and I love when people hear relatable melodies in songs. It's not even necessarily that they know where it's coming from; they just know that they like it, and I wanted to have that element in the song.

Did you really record over 100 songs for the album? Yeah, almost 200.

How many of those are going to see light of day? A couple of them have ended up on separate projects. One of the songs is on the Hunger Games soundtrack. So they're finding their own homes. If not, I don't know. They can release them when I'm dead.

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In movies and on TV we often see surgeons turn on some music during a procedure, but does it actually improve the success-rate of the surgery in real life?

According to a new report in the British Medical Journal, music is played 62-72 percent of the time in the operating room (mostly classical), and roughly 80 percent of operating room staff say that music benefits cooperation between team members, reduces anxiety levels and improves efficiency. A surgeons task focus is also improved, according to the research.

Depending on how you work in your daily life, this might make total sense, or you might think that music would be distracting for such an important job. Surgeons from the University Hospital of Wales think music makes a big difference.

Surgeons will inevitably continue to use music as a calming and familiar adjunct to their daily practice, David Bosanquet, James Glasbey and Raphael Chavez wrote in the paper. We embrace music in the operating theater whenever the situation allows it.

Its not just music in general though relaxing music and melodies that mimic the resting heart rate are more effective during a procedure, even more than giving a patient certain anti-anxiety medications before anesthesia, according to a2009 study of 372 patients. Research suggests that this calming, positive affect makes a difference even after a patient leaves the operating room.

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A growing body of research has also suggested that musics healing properties extend to pain relief. A 2012 study from the Pain Research Center at the University of Utahfound that participants who actively focused on various melodies while receiving mildly painful electric shocks reduced pain levels by 17 percent. Research conducted in Singapore also found that palliative care patients who participated in live music therapy reported relief from persistent pain.

Active music engagement allowed the patients to reconnect with the healthy parts of themselves, even in the face of a debilitating condition or disease-related suffering,the studys co-author, music therapist Melanie Kwan of the Association for Music Therapy, Singapore, told the American Psychological Association. When their acute pain symptoms were relieved, patients were finally able to rest.

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