Semiah Smith imagines the Indigenous 'pop girly' if colonization had never happened

Semiah Smith is having a good hair day.“I wrote this song called Propane, but it was like, Pro-Pain, more of an emo song — like maybe I’m pro-pain, you know?” she says.“I got stuck on that, and I was like, OK, I want flame hair. It was supposed to look geothermal.”Instead, over Zoom, it’s a cascade of colour — red, blue, some emerald.“But it’s showing up more as rainbow. Which is OK”The fluorescent ‘do suits a young artist