From watching Minecraft videos to touring with 100 gecs, the producer and songwriter breaks down everything that went into her standout 2026 album, U —plus her former life as a K-pop vlogger. Tangram Mall is nearly abandoned. Inside the hulking, 275,000-square-foot complex that opened a few blocks away from the Flushing, Queens train station last year, escalators escalate listlessly. Goldfish Swim School, usually packed with kiddies practicing flutter kicks, is just rows of empty water. Except for an older man alone on a chair, hunched over a crossword, the cavernous central court is like a speckless bowl. It’s so early that even the Gatcha Clawcade blocks us when we try to enter. I’m with April Harper Grey, also known as underscores , one of the most original artists of her generation and a certified mall-lover. It’s a ghost town compared to Tangram in the “Tell Me (U Want It)” video , where a man hunts Grey through dense thickets of people and clotted staircases.…