Syd says the one thing AI can't do is have soul. "I try to put some of my soul into everything that I make. I feel like most genres are soul music. Everything except for maybe AI music." Read Syd's full 2026 FADER cover story here: features.thefader.com/syd

Syd says The Internet is family. "We pride ourselves on keeping ourselves together and staying together. We’re really proud of the fact that we’ve been able to keep our band together." Read Syd's full 2026 FADER cover story here: features.thefader.com/syd

Syd says 'Beard' is her most personal album because it's made up of songs she actually wrote for herself. Her first solo album, 'Fin,' was filled with songs she’d written to give away. "That’s why this album, 'Beard,' feels the most personal. I wrote all of these songs for me to sing." Read Syd's full 2026 FADER cover story here: features.thefader.com/syd

Syd says she never planned on being an artist. “I never dreamed of being the frontwoman of a band or a singer. It was suffering when I was DJing in front of a crowd when I had never DJ’d for people before. I taught myself how to DJ two months before I started touring with Odd Future. Doing that was the worst anxiety ever. Singing, too. I started a band because I wanted to write some songs and didn’t know enough singers to sing my songs. Now [it’s like], we got a show and they’re offering us $3,000 so I’m gon’ figure it out. It took probably 10 years of doing that before the worst anxiety ever started to subside.” Read Syd's full 2026 FADER cover story here: features.thefader.com/syd

Big Sean on Syd: “She’s modest, very masterful and sweet. People who know how to be a team player are some of the best artists to me. Because they don’t have the biggest ego or feel like they’re too big or small for anything. [Syd’s] all those things. She deserves the world."

Syd's brother Travis Bennett, formerly known as Taco, is proud of her evolution: “She’s just done everything I didn’t expect her to do as as a more quiet homebody. For her to evolve from that to where she is [now]…she is truly a caterpillar that turned into a butterfly. "