Paris Hilton talks about her new single in an interview with Refinery29

Refinery29: So, what exactly is Foam & Diamonds?

Paris Hilton: “It’s my party I’ve been doing — I have a DJ residency [in Ibiza]. And it’s at Amnesia, which is the biggest, most legendary club in Ibiza, if not the world, and it’s basically this really amazing energy — the crowd is insane. I DJ for a couple of hours and do a foam party.”

You’ve been doing it for so long! Why do you keep coming back?

“I’ve been deejaying for 8 years and [in Ibiza] for 5 years. I love it, especially [in Ibiza], because I love the energy of the people. It’s so much fun to be up there, seeing everybody have so much fun. It’s an amazingly lucrative business. I really like to optimize my time as a business woman, so when I’m having to travel for 15 hours or more, I like to make sure it’s not just for a meeting. I have my team book me whatever is the best club or music festival or private party or whatever’s happening so I could make the most out of my time.”

How did you get your start deejaying?`

“I got started deejaying through my friend DJ AM many many years ago. Just for fun, we would do it at house parties. I was the first one who started doing the whole ‘celebrity appearances at clubs’ thing. And then, from there, I started seeing that it was more about the DJ, so I really studied, and hired the best people in the business to learn the craft. After doing my first show, I really got into it and started doing bookings all around the world.”

So you’ve trained pretty extensively — what exactly does that training entail?

“It’s actually very technical. It’s not just something where you put in a song. You need to know the system. When you look at it, it’s just this giant board, there’s so many different buttons, and knobs, and filters. It’s really about learning the art of DJing. There are some other DJs who just play from a computer, but I play from the most advanced systems that are out there. It does take a lot of training to actually learn these systems.”

This week, you teased a new song — “Summer Reign” — on your Twitter. Why the new release?

“Well I released my last single last summer — ‘High Off My Love’ — and the summer before that I had ‘Come Alive.’ Every summer, I love being in Ibiza and using it as a showcase. I’d been writing these songs for the past year, and I thought ‘Summer Reign’ was the perfect title for it. We’re doing a lot of versions — a tropical version, a house version, a dance version. A lot of my friends are remixing it. I love the words; they’re really powerful. They speak about love, and summer, and my summer, and I’ve just never been in a better place in my life. I’m just really happy and this is a really happy, uplifting club anthem. ”