🤖 Sokkobots? Deciphering Jasmine Sokko’s reflections with her new EP 'θi = θr'

🤖 Sokkobots? Deciphering Jasmine Sokko’s reflections with her new EP 'θi = θr'

Singaporean electronic music singer-songwriter and producer Jasmine Sokko is back with her new EP ‘θi = θr’, named after Snell’s Law of Reflection. As a fan of her music, I was excited to hear about her new EP drop which comprises six tracks in total, featuring three brand-new electrifying tracks and three previously released singles. Needless to say, I was thrilled to secure an interview with Jasmine and learn about the stories behind her latest release.

Since this EP is all about her musical reflections, Jasmine Sokko reveals that she started reflecting on herself and her journey during the pandemic period. Luckily for her, she'd planned a routine and assigned different purposes to different spaces at home, just so she could compartmentalize her life better. Like many of us, she also places comfort over everything else when it comes to dressing – not forgetting to rock her PJ look at home too!

Looking back on her 5 years as an artiste, Jasmine shares that her favourite experience would be going to Onsen for the first time. It was her first vacation she allowed herself to have and she vividly remembers “mentally plotting my happiness to be at its peak while staring at the mountains during Winter”.

As the saying goes, “Taking a break is for accomplishing a longer journey”, we're glad to hear that she's giving herself some break time to recharge, reflect and reboot!

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While reflecting is not only about improving but also celebrating what was done well, Jasmine chooses her self-produced track TERMS & CONDITIONS as a song that she's most proud of.

T&C is a song about living life on your own terms. It means that you choose to live life in a way that is meaningful and fulfilling to you, regardless of societal expectations. There’s no one definition of success or happiness. It’s just finding what your formula is so that you can pursue the best version of yourself.

T&C was an eclectic collection of all the quirky sounds/moments that I thoroughly enjoyed with no explanation at all. For instance, the wolf howling sound came from me when I saw a full moon during a night out. (Might have been a wolf in one of my past lives).

There’s a robotic voice that goes “identify” in the first verse which was inspired by a 70s oddball sci-fi film call “Logan’s Run” – we used to think that robots speak in a flat tonal voice, but this movie humanized my idea of robots’ voices and I wish to speak like that ever since. Having ‘Erhu’ (a Chinese instrument) running in the chorus, my Chinese roots do make up a lot of who I am today.”

When asked what are some of the terms she lives by every day, Jasmine shares her three inspiring terms:

1. To not compare yourself to others because everyone moves at their own pace, has their own unique problems and you don’t want to end up benchmarking your beginning to someone’s ending.

2. Focus on the things that you can control and disregard what is outside of your control – which includes how you react to external circumstances.

3. Assume positive intent and learn to ask for help. This has been pivotal in my life, I owe a lot of who I am to many individuals who are kind enough to have guided me.

(Thank you Jasmine, I'll remember them well!)


Without further ado, let's dive in deeper into her EP.

One of your songs is called Tetris which is a very popular computer game. Do you enjoy gaming and if yes, what are some games you play?

Jasmine: It surprises a lot of people that I don’t game right now. But I grew up playing Tetris, Runescape and Pokemon. Tetris used to be my go-to whenever I feel there’s too much chaos in my life – fitting the blocks perfectly gives me a sense of order. That said, I recently got an Oculus Quest 2 and I’ve been virtually travelling and playing games like Pistol Whip, Synth Rider with my friends since.

If you weren’t the Jasmine Sokko now breaking social norms and pursuing your music dream, and just a 25-year-old, what do you think you would be doing right now?

Jasmine: Either a business strategy master student (I really wanted to be a researcher) or someone who works in a tech company. Fun fact: I brought my internship resume to Google during a company visit years ago and (it’s not that I assume I would get in anyway but) my gut feeling told me to not hand it in because if not, I just might not try as hard as I could for this music venture to work.

You have mentioned previously that you enjoyed dancing to the song Magnet, did you learn dancing in the past? Out of 10 points, how would you rate your dance skills?

Jasmine: I picked up dancing in secondary school when K-Pop was beginning to make its dent in the world. I love Kyle Hanagami, Koharu Sugawara, Chachi Gonzales, Lia Kim and most recently, Sean Lew. How can I rate my dance skills above 1 now that I just named all my dance heroes 😂 But so, I always wanted to create songs that my friends can move to, so I dabbled in electronic music.

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Many people tend to be very curious about your trademark, to cover up some parts of your face, be it a mask or visor. How many masks do you have in your collection now and which is your favourite?

Jasmine: I have over 20 masks at the moment AND my current favourite mask is Quartz. Took me a year to realise that and my mask creator and I are currently working on a ‘cousin’ of Quartz. I like the edginess and lightness of the masks – it’s quite contradicting that something so sharp is made out of a super light and delicate material.

Lastly, if you could give your fans a (fandom) name, what would be some suggestions at the top of your mind?

Jasmine: Sokkobots! This term came about as the director and I were conceptualizing HURT’s music video. It was a narrative about how female stars can be super manufactured according to societal’s standard. Then Sokko and Sokkobots were the ‘defects’ that overthrew the expectations.

Otherwise, we have a groupchat with the awesome fans in China that goes by the name of 茉莉花园 which I thought was adorable.


While it is a mystery to what Jasmine Sokko is planning for the remaining quarter of 2021, I'm truly excited to see what she has in store next. It was a joy interviewing Jasmine Sokko and I was glad to hear that we have similar pet peeves too – having kids kicking the back of our seats on airplanes or in the cinemas!

Make sure you check out her latest EP ‘θi = θr’ on KKBOX:

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