Whatever it is that powers modern stardom - whatever it is that powered old-fashioned stardom, for that matter - the slouchy, sleepy-eyed Fike’s got it. Mercifully, the HBO series about a pop star and her Svengali wraps Sunday, but not before tarnishing the reputation of co-creator and co-star Abel Tesfaye. “I thought we were all gonna walk away with the same reaction, then I check online and people are just being animals.”) (He loved Ocean’s much-criticized Coachella set, by the way: “Best live show I’ve ever seen in my life,” he says. At April’s Coachella festival, Fike - who says his “most authentic songs” revolve around his “relationship with the guitar” - performed for an enormous crowd that seemed to squeal every time he flipped his mop of curly brown hair. He’s got songs in the new “Spider-Man” and “Barbie” movies and appeared in Bad Bunny’s “ Where She Goes” video alongside Frank Ocean and Lil Uzi Vert.
Like a streaming playlist come to life, “Sunburn” blends crunchy alt-rock guitars, squiggly synth licks and Fike’s luscious beach-bro vocals in a genre-blurring way that makes perfect sense to Gen Z. The job certainly seems to be his for the taking. The only question is: Does Fike want to be a pop star? “I was like, ‘I should move.’ ”Īfter a stretch spent focused on acting - most notably in HBO’s sex-drenched teensploitation drama “Euphoria,” in which he plays a stoner named Elliot who gets involved with both Zendaya’s Rue and Hunter Schafer’s Jules - the singer and rapper who broke out with the bouncy “ 3 Nights” (Spotify spin count: 850 million) has recommitted himself to music, so much so that he’s already toiling away on his next record. What was I gonna do with the knife?” He laughs wearily. “I’m standing in this Hollywood crib at 7 in the morning. “I was so glad they were gone when I came down,” he says now.
We called it the Porn House.”įike, whose good looks and dirtbag charisma earned him a multimillion-dollar record deal before he’d dropped so much as a major-label single, threw a New Year’s Eve party that year that attracted “some kids who were acting out,” as he puts it - meaning one of them had punched his manager in the face, which led Fike to charge downstairs wielding a knife only to discover that the troublemakers had split. “The rent was like 30 grand a month,” he recalls. When Dominic Fike landed in Los Angeles in late 2018 - this was after he got out of jail in his native Florida and after a brief spell in Colorado, where he went because he’d never seen snow - the musician and actor with the tattooed baby face moved into a nouveau riche mansion in the Hollywood Hills.
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