![]() So anything that happens now is very new to me. I wasn’t in a real relationship before I got famous. I’m very lucky because I have nothing to compare it to. GRAMMYS 2015: Complete list | Top nominees | Timeline Instead of turning to a Beyonce song to help me, I was turning to my own songs, my own shows, my own fanbase and an arena of people to find comfort in hurt. ![]() And then the other week I had to go onstage the day of the breakup and I sang “Good Thing.” Every lyric suddenly came alive and I’m singing the songs in my set and they’re coming alive again. I listened to things like “Leave Your Lover” and “Not in That Way” and I didn’t feel the same feeling as when I wrote them. I went through a breakup a few weeks ago and I always thought I was only going to be able to relate to this album once … and I’d move on. Has traveling the world singing these songs over and over made it easier, or more difficult?Įasier in some respects. You once told me that the music is sometimes difficult to listen to. If people don’t like my next record, I’ve been myself and I’m going to carry on doing that. It’s a documentation and I listen back and it feels like it’s me. I wrote a song two days ago about a breakup I just had. I don’t have to create another character. It is forever going to be me, and it takes the pressure off my next album because that’s what you’re going to get. I have no regrets and falling in love with that person I really don’t regret because it got me six Grammy nominations.Ī lot of artists don’t get the opportunity you did, making their first album on their own terms. It’s the same with falling in love or your career or any decision you made in your life. Because you’ve gotta respect in that moment that it felt right. ![]() I don’t like when artists say they don’t like their first records. Now, it’s more like there’s a beautiful relief to it where I don’t feel that way anymore. PHOTOS: Show highlights | Red carpet | Top nominees | Quotes | Best & worst | Backstage But I’m less lonely now, because when I was in love with the person I wrote the record about it was a constant loneliness all day every day. You’re always going to feel that at certain times in your life. Even if you’re married with seven children there are going to be nights when you’re away from them and you’re going to miss them or there’s going to be nights where you’re with them and you miss being single and having no responsibilities and that’s loneliness. ![]()
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