So I think with a lot of managers, they see me that way too. I feel like that’s kind of how I’m seen in the music industry, but as a songwriter. This was early in his artist career when he was known for just being a producer, and he would go into these record companies and they would just kind of ignore his artist project because they only saw him as a producer. Have you seen the Kanye West series ? There’s something he goes through I really related to. I don’t necessarily want to talk about it, just ’cause I don’t like to throw people under the bus. So that happened, I took my album into Interscope, met with the team, and basically - long story short - they were like, “Well, hip-hop is really the only thing that we’re focused on right now, so if you’re not gonna do hip-hop, it’s probably best we part ways.” So they let me take that music with me and I’m still friends with a lot of people over there. And I was making that album with Aaron Bay-Schuck as my A&R, and then partly through the process, he left and went to Warner. At the time, I was making that EP Angel With Tattoos, which was inspired by my new love. The issue with Interscope, we actually had a very amicable split, which was not something you hear about all the time. It’s interesting that with your success, you were dropped by both Interscope and a manager. I guess it’s always darkest before the dawn. It’s kind of like the transformation I made after hitting rock bottom, going through all these emotions and then coming out the other side feeling stronger than ever, which is where I’m at now. Yeah, a good portion of that time over the past six years, I was, like, “What’s the point?” I wasn’t feeling inspired I was feeling really discouraged about my career, and simultaneously as that stuff was going on, I got dropped from Interscope, and I had a manager that dropped me as well, so I kind of hit rock bottom last year.īut once you hit rock bottom, there’s only one place to go - up.Įxactly. When you’re forced to sell your catalog, it almost feels like the music is taken away from you did that change your relationship with music at any point? I feel like that song, I found a vibe that I was really wanting to nail, and then I built from there. That was written in either the end of 2020 or the beginning of 2021, and that began the process. The first song I wrote on the album was “Partly Cloudy With a Chance of Tears.” And I wrote it about that feeling of I’m putting on this facade, like this fake smile, because I can’t tell the world what I’m going through, so I’m pretending everything’s all good, but I’m on the verge of tears all the time. Was there one song early on that started this album? So this album, I feel like reflects those emotions and the things that I was going through. And it was hard, it was a lot of turmoil, depression, I was going through a lot of shit. The whole album is a cathartic release for me, it’s expressing a lot of emotions I felt over however many years it’s been. Luckily, I had the option of doing something like that, otherwise I may not have gotten out of the case.Īfter going through all of that, how much of this album was a catharsis for you? It’s like your life’s work, and then suddenly it’s like, “Okay, I’ve got to give the majority of this away.” But that was my only option. But unfortunately, the majority of what I got paid for my catalog went to taxes and my ex-husband. Every time one of those songs get used in a movie or whatever, I don’t see any of that money anymore. They’re still near and dear to my heart and yeah, I will always treasure them, but it’s different now. Have your feelings towards the songs changed at all after having had to sell them? Now I’m just focused on creating a new catalog and new money and new opportunities. But, I have such a weight off of me now with the case being over, I’m not on the phone with lawyers every day, and I’m not having to pay all these legal bills anymore. I wanted to keep building it and growing it. So this wasn’t like what Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen did when they sold their recorded and publishing rights for hundreds of millions of dollars? I didn’t want to sell them, but it was my only way to put the past behind me… ![]() ![]() But at the same time, nobody can tell me I didn’t write those songs just ’cause I don’t own the rights to them anymore. This past year, 2021, we finally resolved it, settled, I had to sell my catalog in order to afford the settlement, which was very sad in a way, because those songs like “Love The Way You Lie” and “Coming Home,” those are my babies. But since 2017 I was going through a divorce and lawsuit, that was just wrecking me emotionally and financially. I wasn’t really allowed to talk about everything that was going on because I was in a legal dispute, so I didn’t want any of that to bite me in the ass by saying something. You’ve had a lot of life upheaval since we last spoke.
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