Orange magic in your eyes, on my mind
JULIA MICHAELSWhen you start to have success, people look at you differently and expect more from you. With that comes a lot of pressure to perform, so it can be a little overwhelming.
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I grew up in Davenport, Iowa, but I moved to Santa Clarita, California, when I was 6.
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I’m very emotional and vulnerable.
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Hula-hooping. It makes me feel free. My stepsister introduced me to it. I used to have panic attacks all the time, and she hula-hooped to cope with her own anxiety.
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I’m a very stimulated person.
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An artist could have a really big relationship, and then they break up, and any song after that, people are automatically going to assume that that song is about that person.
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My sister was the singer, and I always had the mentality there could only be one in the family.
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There is so much power in vulnerability, and I am proud to be that typecast.
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I’ve been the person who hides behind people and lets everyone else do their thing, and I’ve been content there.
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Still finding silly string in weird places.
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It’s ingrained in people’s minds that it’s a typecast and a stereotype that women are just emotional and crazy.
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Working with new people can be really hard and nerve-wracking. When you don’t know the person, it’s like being on a blind date.
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Women often don’t want to be typecast as the girl that’s sad.
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When you first start out, people think this is super easy and you find your crew super quick. But you’ve really got to go through songwriter boot camp to find your people.
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Tired of people telling me how I should have a fucking body. What I should wear on it. How I should act with it. What I should fucking shave off of it.
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People are always going to have something to say about you or your body. They will always try to attack you when you’re feeling the most happy or the most yourself you’ve ever been.
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I’ve always been a writer. I’ve always loved words, ever since I was a kid.
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My boyfriend and I like to fight a lot. I have a lot of problems. He has a lot of problems. Somehow, we always work them out and find a way back to each other.
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I had all these singles come out within a two-month period, and then nothing for almost two years. You start to feel a little irrelevant. You realize how many people there are trying to be songwriters and how competitive it is and how political things can be.
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When you start to have success, people look at you differently and expect more from you. With that comes a lot of pressure to perform, so it can be a little overwhelming.
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I’ve written poetry most of my life.
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If I get writer’s block – this is going to sound funny – I take a shower. Something about the water feels like I’m cleaning my brain as well as my body.
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I think artists are aware that talking gives a songwriter so much material. If they just tell us what’s happening, it’s so much easier for us to write a song that’s specific to them.
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It’s 2016. Men are more vulnerable than ever.
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I just remember really loving words and writing about anything I could, and the way I’d remember things, like my library card number, was to make a melody.
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For the first three years, when I was writing, I was doing sessions with a whole bunch of different people all the time every day until I met Lindy Robbins, who kind of mentored me. And then, once you find that, all the pieces come together.
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If you listen to the radio, it’s all men who are emotional and women who are sexual. There’s nothing wrong with that! It definitely should be the case, but it makes me sad that women are afraid to be emotional because it makes them look weak.
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