LiaSimone is a recording artist, singer/songwriter, and performer from Detroit, Michigan. She is an artist entering the music industry with a unique style, rich voice, and an unmatched vision. She describes her artistry as having two distinct...

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LiaSimone is a recording artist, singer/songwriter, and performer from Detroit, Michigan. She is an artist entering the music industry with a unique style, rich voice, and an unmatched vision. She describes her artistry as having two distinct perspectives. The “Lia” side of her consists of a heavy pop influence, which relies on dance, upbeat tempos, and custom-built visuals. In contrast, “Simone”, has a serious demeanor, enjoys expressing herself through R&B music, and explores dark moody themes. Her music consists of Pop, R&B, and Hip-Hop, and contains themes of self-awareness, women empowerment, and perseverance.

LiaSimone found a strong passion for the performing aspect of music when she joined the Musical Theatre program in high school. That taught her the importance of stage direction, costuming, lighting, & most importantly: putting on a full show. As a passionate musical and performing artist, LiaSimone independently released her debut EP “Mood” in the summer of 2018, learning the importance of owning and registering one’s own music. She directed and produced her first 3 music videos from her EP and began performing in multiple venues. LiaSimone is incredibly involved in her craft, from casting to costuming, and even editing.

One of her main goals as an artist is to inspire young women and let them know that they are beautiful and worthy. She aspires to teach the importance of self-worth, and feels her purpose is to connect people through music and instill confidence in those who need it. LiaSimone has had radio interviews that consist of 105.9 Kiss FM, 910 AM Superstation, and Florida’s own WMRR Radio Show. She performed in the Woodward Dream Cruise, Hair Wars, Aretha Franklin Jazz Café, Detroit Hot Radio Showcase, and more. She was also featured in Detroit’s Own, Angie Starr’s, singing competition as the spotlight artist. In addition, she was a part of 2020’s Arts, Beats & Eats — The Beats Go On, music festival. In September of 2020, she released her latest single titled “Can’t Be Beat”, and produced the accompanying music video, which was her largest independent project to date.

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Transcript
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If you turn your speakers up.

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Wi yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Come on, come on,

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come on, come.

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On, it's Leah. It's Leah Simone Simon.

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Hello, and welcome to the show. I'm your host, Nick

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and Marie. Joining me today is singer, songwriter, director and

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performer Straight from Detroit. Welcome Leah Simone to the show.

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We were rocking out to her latest single title Can't

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Be Beat, off her debut EP titled Mood Straight. Stay

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tuned for the interview. Can't Be Beat is the new

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song right now.

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I don't mean that you don't see that. I got

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skilled to say, I got reflect he relaxed, spread like

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the trees. I can teach that you don't need that.

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Maybe move with the breed.

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That's a sight.

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Now.

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Everybody won't stop aboutter like you.

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But I've never much, You've never liked. Now maybe a

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better tell over with you right now may be about

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to shine now, Yeah yeah, come on come.

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On here.

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As don't sleep, no sleep, want to they'll sleep the

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sleeve wanted.

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You'll shagg a lagger right there right now, better sha

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Shagar lagger right there, seeking and.

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The street.

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I speak, let's.

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And I'm so excited to be here. Thank you so much.

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Yes, I'm excited to hear all about your music and

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just having this creative process that you have going on,

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and talk a little bit about the pandemic and how

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it affected you. So first and foremost, just tell us

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a little bit about you and how you got started

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into music.

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Yeah, so I love that question.

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I know it's probably so cliche, but I love the

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beginning process. That's always my favorite. So I've been singing

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since about ten years old. I used to actually have

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really bad stage right, believe it or not. So I

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started getting into activities to kind of help me get

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in front of audiences.

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I'm like the dance team, you know, the pom team,

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et cetera.

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And so throughout high school I actually cheered as well

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for five to six years, and then that I started

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doing musical theater, and that is what kind of set

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the tone for me. Like musical theater was like Wow,

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I love being on a stage. I love entertaining people,

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I love wowing people. And so that was my senior

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year of high school. And after that year ended, I

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was really debating, like do I want to try to

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go the like you know, Broadway approach, or do I

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want to make my own music.

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And then it just dawned on me, like, I think

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I want to.

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Launch myself as a recording artist and make my own

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music instead. So I took a year and started working

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on my debut EP with one of my favorite producers ever,

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Louse Cannon, right here in Detroit, Michigan. And I independently

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released my EP in twenty seventeen, and then I've re

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released it in twenty eighteen. So it gets kind of confusing,

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but either way, I did all that by myself.

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And then ever since then, it's you know, been mee

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and my mom, she is my.

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Manager as well, trying to book me for shows, you know,

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and trying to just like find connections and you know,

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make our way through this journey. So that is where

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it started. It was like, hey, I love singing, but

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I can't sing in front of people yet. What can

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I do to help me, you know, get experienced? And

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then doing musical theater, I was like, yep, I love

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the stage, So.

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That's what kind of did it?

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What does that?

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What does that do to your soul for you to

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be able to perform in front of people? And you know,

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I always feel like performers they always get us hyped

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up and they seem so ambitious and just enjoying in

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the moment. So how does that make you feel to

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the core of you.

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Yeah, for me, I am really big on like precision

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and like rehearsal and stuff like that. So for me,

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a lot of the stuff that I do, I work

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on really hard, and I like work on for long

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months of time. So once it's like show day, you know,

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it's to me giving everything that I've been practicing, you know,

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and giving everything that I've been going over the details,

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you know, from crastening to whatever, and then being on

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the stage is like I'm finally showing whoever, you know,

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all the work that I've put in for however amount

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of time. So it just feels like that hard work

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is now it's showtime, and so it feels good just

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to show what I've.

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Been working on. So yeah, I always tell people.

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I always tell people that I'm a ball of emotions

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and fear and I get anxious, but then once the

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camera is on, it's like almost like a different person.

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Yeah, yeah, I definitely.

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I always give myself like a window, so about an

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hour before the show or whatever it may be, that's

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when the nerves start trickling in and they build and

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they just keep going and going, and then kind of

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you know, when you're like me as a performer, when

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you're in that waiting area right before they announce their name.

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Sometimes I feel like I'm gonna puke. I'm not gonna lie.

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Then soon as I go, and I always say soon

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as I say in my first sentence, like you know,

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how's everybody doing? Or I am liah Simone, it's over with.

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Yeah, I mean to the people that you know are

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tuning in and they're like, oh, well, you do this

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all the time. Like I still get stage fright, Like

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I still get afreid, Like when the countdown is going,

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I'm still like we got and then it's like the

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camera is like okay action. Yeah, so it's like it's

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it's not it's not you, it's nothing.

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It's just a part of life.

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And you know, we we go through a lot of

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trials and fears. You push through it. So now with

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singing and songwriting, I want to understand that creative process

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because I also singing and do my little karaoke and whatnot. Okay,

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you know I'm not professional going on, you know, doing

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shows and stuff. But I can listen to a beat

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or some type of tune and I will write something,

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and more than anything, it's probably something that I'm feeling

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in the moment, yeah, listening to it, but it's still

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like a memory, yeah, of something that happened or something

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that I want to happen. Yeah, So just walk me

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through a little bit of your creative process.

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Yeah, that's awesome. By the way, that's really cool.

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And I think I saw even that you make beats,

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so that's cool too, ex period. So for me, it

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kind of can go both either either way. So sometimes

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it'll be a melody that comes to me, or I'll

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be driving and hear something or see something and I'll

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kind of like dually note it, you know, for later,

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and build on it once I'm like home or in

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like a you know, comfortable space. But when I'm writing

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for a specific thing, like hey, I know that I

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want to single out, I need to start coming up

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with something, you know, that is where I kind of

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take the process and say what do I want to

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talk about?

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So that's kind of how I started.

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It's like it's either going to be that really natural

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way the stuff that comes to you in the shower

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or in your dreams, or it'll be more planned out

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where it's like or even for cant be beat.

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I was like, okay, I want to make like.

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I literally was like, I want to make a song

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that is about me overcoming a lot of the BS

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that I've been through. I said, hmm, let me start

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going through some of it. And that's where it was

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like very intentional. So this can go either way.

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Sometimes it's go with the flow.

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Sometimes I'll sit, you know, in my room for like

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hours trying to like really focus on this one exact

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song that I'm trying to finish.

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So, yes, I know there is a song called lost.

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I want to play a little bit of it.

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Yeah, I'm in a can see my I'm so.

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In a day.

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It's someone else. Now if people are following you on

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social media the look that you have on this video,

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I'm like, yeah, you are someone else. Yeah, yeah, Can

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you tell me a little bit about what this song

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is or what it means? Because I always feel like

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we write things, but like, as a writer, I want

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you to get a particular message, but you might not

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be getting that message because you're listening to what you

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want to listen to. But I actually wanted it to

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mean this and lot this, So if you can talk

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a little bit about what loss means.

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Yeah, So first I love that you even said that,

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because I that's what I kind of even though it

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can be scary sometimes, I love the idea of just

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like different people's perceptions, you know, and that song specifically,

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it can relate to anyone in so many different ways.

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So I think that is that's what I wanted, you know,

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from people listening and the audience to take it how

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they wanted it and apply it how you know, to

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what situation applies to them. But when I wrote it, yeah,

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I wrote it and and kind of like early to

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mid twenty seventeen, and this truth is I was just

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like really confused in my life like at that time,

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like relationship wise, spiritually, I was just so confused. That's

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literally what I'm saying is like I don't know what

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to do. I don't know to take the left path

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or the right path. I don't know, you know, which

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route I want to go, And everything was just really

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confusing and blending in and so that song I literally.

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Got in my bag.

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And it's so funny because it was such like a

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chapter of my life and I'm thankful I'm not in

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that space anymore. But you can tell through the video

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in the song like I was feeling every single thing

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that I was saying, Like I was like, Yo, I'm

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going through it and y'all gonna hear it on this track.

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So, yeah, what was the most open you think you've

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ever been when it comes to just writing?

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I would say that song for sure, because I normally

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my thing, I'm not too good at being vulnerable.

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I should work on that more, but that's normally not

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the way that I do things.

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So that song I had just kind of decided, especially

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for it to be on my debut EP.

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That EP Mood.

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It was you know, a mix of things. It was

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like pop and hip hop, and I was like, I

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want to I'm fun to dad. But that's what I

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always tell people, like my brand being Leah Simone. Leah

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is this pop, super cute, pink type of girl and

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Simone is really dark like she is, and it's just

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is a part of me.

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You know, I can be really moody sometimes.

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So that's when I was at that moment in time,

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I was feeling like Simone, Like I was like in

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a darker space.

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And I was like, I'm not gonna front and pretend

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that I'm.

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Leah every you know, the happy go lucky side, because

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I mean not all the time, nobody is all the time.

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So now, and so I said, I want to share that,

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you know, And that was when I had just Yeah,

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those were the lyrics and the melodies.

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They were all just coming to me.

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And I actually found that beat literally just looking online,

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like through beat Stars, and I came across it and

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I was like, oh, this is like.

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Embodying how my soul feels.

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And I just was looping it over and over again,

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and I was like, I just want to be as

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vulnerable as possible.

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So I don't know if they're going to get that

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all the time, but okay, I'm putting on this track.

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Yes, it's so funny that you you're seeing like there's

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two different parts of you. Yeah, basically, yes, there's that cute,

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fun pink and then there's that dark look. Yeah it

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can no bs.

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Yeah, And it's funny because I had to explain it

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to someone not too long ago, and I was like,

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it's not like an alter ego, you know, it's not

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like a different name. It's like, some days I wake

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up and I'm just so optimistic and I'm just like

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full of sun. And some days I'm so like the

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glass is having tea, you know what I'm saying, Like

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it is, I'm like, and nobody can make me see

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the positive side.

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Sometimes some days it's really like that. So that's kind

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of like the Simon.

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She's just super serious, super sultry, and she just loves

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I always say when I work with my vocal coach

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and we start working on new songs, She's like, there's

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always this common theme, like you love you know songs

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and minor keys, and I'm like, yeah, it's just something

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about that dark mysteriousness that I love. But I also

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am huge into pop music, specifically like mid two thousand's pop.

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So I said, you know, it's just kind of like lea,

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you know, merge these together.

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Yeah, we're going to merge these YEP.

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I think Beyonce has that same thing where you know,

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sometimes she's like, oh, I'm so cute and innocent, and

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then there's other she's like, if you like it, you

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better put a ring on it. But she's it's I

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think it's something about entertainment where you still feel like

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you have to kind of play bull of those sides.

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Yeah, definitely.

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Don't know me being an entertainment radio, it's more like, Okay,

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I'm mommy Nikia. Yeah, but when I'm in front of

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the camera, I'm Nicki Marie.

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Absolutely, it is. It's that's totally good.

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And you know, my daughter says, she's like, are you

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Nicki Marie today or are you Like that.

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Is so cute. But I feel you. I feel you

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for sure.

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And sometimes I think it's necessary and I think naturally

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we as people do it, especially being a creative to

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kind of have like this guard, which is very necessary.

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So it's like vulnerability is nice and transparency is amazing.

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But I mean I'm not the first and I won't

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be the last to say how you have to be

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you know, tough and the entertainment business blah blah. So

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you know, sometimes it's necessary to have this this side

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where it's like, you know, this is this is a

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mom but this is me over here I'm dealing with

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all these other people.

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Absolutely, And then that kind of takes me back to

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some of the performing highlights that you've had throughout life. Yeah,

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I mean you're not that old.

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Yeah, thank you.

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Yeah, I mean yeah, Like, so, how have you experienced

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your twenty years now? No, right now, but what are

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some of the highlighted moments that you have experienced, at

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least within the past three or four years.

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Yeah, I would say some few things that stick out

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to me. I actually performed in hair Wars, which is

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David hump the Grinder hair Wars like Hair Fantasy fashion

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shows that are huge hair hair and fashion shows. And

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he normally doesn't allow like singers or any other type

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of entertainment, but he actually let me do it, and

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I was in a segment it was done now, Who's

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a Great Hair Artist? And I did the song type

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is Your Love? And I remixed it to talk about

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like how big is your hair? And it was just

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super cool. And so that was awesome because, like I said,

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he normally doesn't allow artists to like sing. That was cool,

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and I actually did a performance at the Aretha Franklin

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Jazz Cafe that night. Was unforgettable because that was the

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first time I saw my name up on the you know,

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little digital billboard thing and I was like pulling up

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or I had walked down the street, I mean remember,

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and I was just like oh my gosh, Like, it

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was amazing to see Lia Simone in my face and

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I was like, that is the start of something because

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I've never seen that. And that was the first night too.

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It was like my face and everything was on all

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the flyers.

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You know.

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It wasn't just like me, you know, doing a hair

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fashion show or me doing an artist showcase. It was

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like this Islea Simone's night, She's on the billboard. I

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was like, oh my gosh, So that was amazing.

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That was amazing.

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It's so important and crucial to remain humble throughout your journey.

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I cannot even stress it enough to you know, anyone

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who comes on this show like where you were, absolutely remember.

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I remember how you got there and those who kind

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of guided you through that process. Now, I want to

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talk about the pandemic because I've had a number of

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guests that will tell me when it comes to music

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and shows, tours and everything, everything pretty much shut down.

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So what are some of the challenges you faced during

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the pandemic career wise?

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Yeah, I had to do a couple of things.

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So obviously you've probably heard this answer a numerous amount

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of times, just things being canceled and big shows, small shows, whatever,

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but things that you were going to get paid for

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and now it's done and over with and you were

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looking forward to that source of income and it's gone.

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So that was upsetting.

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And I love performing, so it was like it was necessary,

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of course to you know, stop things and close things,

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but it was things certain shows I was already booked

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for and it was just like it's sorry, and I

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was like, oh my gosh. But I think for me,

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it was more the world felt like it was stopping, right,

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But as a creative, we can't really do that. So

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I was like really getting a little stressed because I'm like,

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I want to just take this time and relax and

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just like exist. I literally just wanted to be here.

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I just want to exist and live day to day.

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But as a creative, you know, you know, you have

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to stay posting, you have to stay having content, and

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that is what was challenging because I'm like, I don't

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really feel comfortable being around anybody to go get this content,

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but I have to somehow link with my you know,

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one of my good friends, Jayden, and he's a photographer,

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so you know, we were constantly doing shoots and stuff

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as safely as we could all because of the pressure.

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To stay putting out content.

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And I'm just like it was that was challenging, Like

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we worked through it and luckily we all you know,

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stayed safe and stuff. But yeah, it was next to

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canceling everything and me just wanting to relax and I'm like,

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I can't because I am an artist.

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And I need to do this and do this and

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do this, and so that was, yeah, I don't I

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don't think that part I got a response regarding content

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because as a content creator you have to keep posting

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absolutely or or people will forget.

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Yeah, and it's.

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The algorithms are off, you know, off whack. But that

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is like a real thing. Like it's just had this

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conversation about social media and not feeling like it's our

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end all or be all. Yeah, but unfortunately in certain

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industries it is important. It's like the lesser two eels.

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Yeah, and I look at it.

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My friends know sometimes they used to get on me

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a lot, like Leah, you need to be doing this,

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you need to be doing this, And I love social media.

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It's very necessary.

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But I also so have a much different mentality than

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like a lot of the quick you know of people

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forgetting and I call it the microwaveable era.

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I am not like that.

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So to me is like I believe in real connections

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and real people out here like that are literally humans breathing.

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So to me, if y'all don't see me post for

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two weeks, you don't know all the things and connections

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I could be making in real life.

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So to me, I just think differently.

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I think again, social media is awesome and it's gotten

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so many people, so many great opportunities. But I used

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to be like, it's not I'm not gonna let it

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define me. But it does still stress me out, but

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I'm not gonna let it.

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So I have a love hate.

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But yeah, with the pandemic, it was like I need

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to do something. I need to post some singing videos,

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I need to do a photo shoot, like I have

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to do something.

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So that was what was stressful.

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Yeah. Were there ever any moments where I guess with

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the pandemic like personally affected you.

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Yeah. I feel like, unfortunately, I may be.

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Like one of the few where I almost kind of

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like enjoyed the world stopping. It was just strange and

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it was super scary to me in the beginning. But

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I really needed the break, even though I kept pushing,

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I was still in the studio. Obviously can't be beat

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in the whole video in the Sand Dunes was born

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from that. But like you remember, the first couple of

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months when everything was over, I was just like I

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needed it, Like I was just like, oh my gosh,

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Like it was so hard to explain, but that personally

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helped me kind of reset. And I think everyone has

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said this the pandemic period, it helped us see what's

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really important, what we really need to really focus on,

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and how family and love and that's what really really matters.

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And so it was a nice reset for me in

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the beginning though I was struggling and I was like

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super anxious.

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I was super scared. You know, I was that person

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that was so afraid to go to the grocery store.

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You know.

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So that was unfortunate and annoying. But yeah, I needed it.

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I think a lot of people needed it, and I

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will admit I will admit it. So yeah, I think we.

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I mean, if we're honest, then yeah, I think we

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all needed that that reset.

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You know.

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Unfortunately, along the way, people passed away, and that's probably

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the part that's that hit hardest because it hit me

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family a number of times. But I think just for

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me personally, it was it was a great balance. It

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was a great way to balance me out and figure

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things out and just take my time and not feel

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rushed to do stuff. Yeah, so yeah, I agree.

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And especially I think about I had read some article

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where it was some awesome number of amount of people

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who had finally launched their you know, small businesses. So

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it gave you that opportunity, and you know, there were

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so many resources and still are floating around to help

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with small business owners and black owned businesses, and it

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was so many people that you know, how you would say,

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like of only I just had a couple of months

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off for only there was more hours in the day,

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and they finally got it and they were able to

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pursue some of their smaller passion projects. And I'm sure

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they're you know, grateful for that. But it is a

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catch twenty two because, like you just said, a lot

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of death and heartbreak came out of it, so it

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is unfortunate. But yeah, I just I know a lot

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of people were like it kind of helped us really

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see what is really important, you know, and some of

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the outside stuff is not so important.

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It's our family and our loved ones and you know

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things like that.

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So yeah, yes, well we got to get back to

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this video. Yes, I was trying to play the video

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so I can't be beat. Tell me where where did

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you film this? Yeah?

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So we actually did it in Michigan. People cannot believe

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that there is that much sand and beauty and Michigan,

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Michigan is beautiful, but people didn't know there was like

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sand dunes and there's actually a couple So we were

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kind of debating between like four locations all between Michigan

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and he was in Chicago and I had just said,

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you know, I want just this really minimalistic background type

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of scene.

471
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I want to be with women. I you know, I

472
00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:27.920
want to be with my dancers and my girls.

473
00:24:28.559 --> 00:24:31.880
And my manager was just on it, you know, looking

474
00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:34.519
up sand dunes and the pricing and stuff like that,

475
00:24:34.759 --> 00:24:36.279
and so yeah, it was about three and a half

476
00:24:36.359 --> 00:24:37.519
hours up north.

477
00:24:39.200 --> 00:24:40.160
That is incredible.

478
00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:43.920
Yeah, and so many people were messaging me like where

479
00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:44.559
were you.

480
00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:48.799
I'm like, I am not far like what you traveled

481
00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:51.680
way way way far. Yeah.

482
00:24:52.079 --> 00:24:53.839
Yeah, I'm glad it came off that way.

483
00:24:53.960 --> 00:24:56.400
But yeah, we all traveled me and my dancers, you know,

484
00:24:56.480 --> 00:24:59.759
my videographer and his assistant, and my manager and my

485
00:25:00.599 --> 00:25:02.920
so it was a nice, little too three day trip,

486
00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:05.079
but we knocked that whole thing out very quickly.

487
00:25:05.279 --> 00:25:10.480
So yes, we'll tell us the little backstory to the song.

488
00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:15.200
Yeah, so a lot of it has to do with

489
00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:20.240
this experience that I went through in twenty seventeen. I

490
00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:24.039
was unfortunately put in it's all necessary. I believe in,

491
00:25:24.359 --> 00:25:26.079
you know, what's meant to happen is going to happen

492
00:25:26.200 --> 00:25:29.799
in divine timing. But I was put into a situation

493
00:25:30.119 --> 00:25:33.799
where I felt like everyone was really looking down on me,

494
00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:37.039
and everyone felt like they were way superior than I was,

495
00:25:37.400 --> 00:25:40.880
and that's frustrating, but we were all in the same

496
00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:42.119
we're all on the same level.

497
00:25:42.200 --> 00:25:43.839
So I was like, you know, why or do some

498
00:25:43.880 --> 00:25:46.279
people feel like they're superior? And did it? And so

499
00:25:46.559 --> 00:25:49.319
I would get a lot of critique and people would

500
00:25:49.319 --> 00:25:50.440
just I was in situation.

501
00:25:50.279 --> 00:25:53.200
Where a good amount of people were very unkind to me,

502
00:25:53.799 --> 00:25:57.000
and it got me down for way way too long,

503
00:25:57.240 --> 00:25:59.319
like way too long. And so this is kind of

504
00:25:59.440 --> 00:26:04.039
my coming out in my rebirthing saying, you know, f

505
00:26:04.160 --> 00:26:06.519
the noise, I am here to stay. That's kind of

506
00:26:06.680 --> 00:26:08.359
a lot of the lyrics is saying, you know, y'all

507
00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:10.799
can talk, y'all ish you know what I'm saying, I'm

508
00:26:10.839 --> 00:26:14.160
not going anywhere, and you know, y'all need to just

509
00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:16.680
sit back and listen to this beat because Lias Simone

510
00:26:16.839 --> 00:26:19.440
is not going anywhere. So that it was kind of

511
00:26:19.519 --> 00:26:22.079
like a really you know, a really strong message and

512
00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:25.799
a statement of saying I am finally feeling like myself

513
00:26:25.839 --> 00:26:29.279
again and finally feeling like back to where I was, where.

514
00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:31.519
I know that I can do this, So that is

515
00:26:31.599 --> 00:26:35.480
that nice? Yeah, well I'm going to be playing that

516
00:26:35.920 --> 00:26:40.319
on Nick and Marry Radio. Obviously I can't play the video.

517
00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:42.480
Okay, that's okay.

518
00:26:43.799 --> 00:26:45.680
Well tell everyone how old you are right now?

519
00:26:46.079 --> 00:26:51.440
Yes, I am twenty two, so okay, twenty two, and

520
00:26:51.559 --> 00:26:55.640
you've been writing since I've been writing songs since my

521
00:26:55.720 --> 00:26:58.680
first song I actually wrote at eleven slash twelve years old,

522
00:26:58.960 --> 00:27:02.160
so that was school and my mom still laughed at

523
00:27:02.200 --> 00:27:04.480
me because it was like a slow song and a

524
00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:07.559
little boy like will hurt my feelings and broke my heart.

525
00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:09.200
And that was the first song that I ever wrote.

526
00:27:09.240 --> 00:27:11.799
And so I'm like, you know, at the time, I

527
00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:14.680
was really upset and I just came home as in

528
00:27:14.720 --> 00:27:17.319
middle school, and that was the first song I wrote.

529
00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:20.880
And then through high school I didn't write as much

530
00:27:20.880 --> 00:27:23.039
because I was really focused on cheer and I was

531
00:27:23.119 --> 00:27:26.960
in so many extracurricular activities like drama club, National Honor Society.

532
00:27:27.119 --> 00:27:29.319
I was running around that school doing everything.

533
00:27:29.759 --> 00:27:34.319
So then after you know, graduation, I kind of got

534
00:27:34.400 --> 00:27:36.599
back to, like I told you, deciding I want to

535
00:27:36.680 --> 00:27:37.799
be a recording artist.

536
00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:42.079
Let me get back in my songwriting bag. So yeah, nice.

537
00:27:42.920 --> 00:27:48.920
Well, last question of the nights, So, who are some

538
00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:53.039
of the music artists out right now or maybe in

539
00:27:53.079 --> 00:27:57.400
the past that have impacted you in some way, shape

540
00:27:57.480 --> 00:27:59.960
or form through their creativity.

541
00:28:00.680 --> 00:28:00.880
Yeah.

542
00:28:01.599 --> 00:28:04.720
I always start with like my top three inspirations, and

543
00:28:04.839 --> 00:28:07.200
I will cite them over and over again and y'all

544
00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:10.799
will keep hearing it. So it's Beyonce, Stevie Wonder, and

545
00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:15.079
Lauren Hill. Those are my go tos that have impacted

546
00:28:15.119 --> 00:28:18.519
me in so many ways. From Beyonce on the performing

547
00:28:18.640 --> 00:28:21.799
aspect and really you know, giving your all and giving

548
00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:26.079
the audience a really good show, to the actual music

549
00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:28.839
and the arrangement, you know, and the theory behind some

550
00:28:28.960 --> 00:28:31.319
of Stevie Wonder's music to Lauren Hill.

551
00:28:31.680 --> 00:28:34.039
Her music is so hard to explain what it does

552
00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:34.400
for me.

553
00:28:34.599 --> 00:28:38.319
It just makes me feel all like giddy, and that's

554
00:28:38.359 --> 00:28:41.559
the best way I can explain it. And really listening

555
00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:45.119
to her, I realized at an early age again, like

556
00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:47.559
around middle school, I want to make other people feel

557
00:28:47.640 --> 00:28:49.519
like this, you know, So how can I What do

558
00:28:49.680 --> 00:28:51.839
I need to do to make other people feel the way?

559
00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:52.559
You know?

560
00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:55.640
Laura Hill and Stevie's Wonder, you know, music made me feel.

561
00:28:56.000 --> 00:28:59.119
So those are like my main though. Those what put

562
00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:01.519
a stamp on what simone and said, hey, okay, I

563
00:29:01.599 --> 00:29:04.240
want to do what they're doing. Some of my faves

564
00:29:04.279 --> 00:29:08.279
out right now Billie Eilish, Meghanie Sallion and Chloe and Hallie.

565
00:29:08.519 --> 00:29:09.880
So those are like my girls.

566
00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:15.720
I know with Chloe I always get the too confused,

567
00:29:16.480 --> 00:29:21.400
but I think they were bringing kind of somewhat awareness

568
00:29:21.559 --> 00:29:26.880
to body shaming or like how we see images or

569
00:29:27.160 --> 00:29:30.680
how we see women as a whole. Yeah. Yeah, and

570
00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:34.240
now with you being so young and growing up and

571
00:29:35.240 --> 00:29:39.079
you know, some people will tell you get out because

572
00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:43.920
of you know, the perception of entertainment. Yeah, but what

573
00:29:44.039 --> 00:29:48.880
would you say to young girls who feel like, oh,

574
00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:52.799
I'm you know, I don't have the best image, but

575
00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:55.759
I want to make music. Or I may not have

576
00:29:55.920 --> 00:29:58.799
the best writing ability, but I want to be a writer.

577
00:29:59.359 --> 00:30:02.799
Yeah, I love that, and even real fast to touch

578
00:30:02.880 --> 00:30:05.720
on that what Chloe and Halley and the whole thing

579
00:30:05.799 --> 00:30:07.839
that they were going through, I just wanted to say,

580
00:30:08.079 --> 00:30:10.680
my biggest thing, even since I was young, I've always

581
00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:14.240
wanted to talk to and touch specifically young women.

582
00:30:14.839 --> 00:30:16.640
So I totally felt that whole thing.

583
00:30:16.799 --> 00:30:19.440
And you know, there's so much pressure on women and

584
00:30:19.559 --> 00:30:23.480
so many like random little standards that were placed on

585
00:30:23.680 --> 00:30:24.559
us that we didn't ask for.

586
00:30:24.799 --> 00:30:25.680
So I'm sick of that.

587
00:30:25.839 --> 00:30:28.720
I don't even follow all that. I can't but to

588
00:30:29.359 --> 00:30:33.599
a lot of artists are young creative anything I would say,

589
00:30:35.240 --> 00:30:39.440
I think me personally, I spent so much time a

590
00:30:39.519 --> 00:30:43.960
few years ago just like really stressing about things that

591
00:30:44.200 --> 00:30:47.200
weren't lined up, you know perfectly. And I'm like you

592
00:30:47.319 --> 00:30:49.519
just said the image and the songwriting. And I used

593
00:30:49.519 --> 00:30:51.519
to feel like, well, if I don't have all these

594
00:30:51.559 --> 00:30:53.880
things over here, I can't really launch myself yet.

595
00:30:54.240 --> 00:30:57.519
And I have learned just literally go for it. Anyways,

596
00:30:57.839 --> 00:31:00.279
Like that is so cliche, but the.

597
00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:04.359
More you keep going forward and keep trying things, more

598
00:31:04.440 --> 00:31:06.759
opportunities and things will line right up for you. So

599
00:31:06.920 --> 00:31:10.880
even if there's some things that you're insecure about insecure about,

600
00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:13.599
as you keep putting yourself out there the right, you know,

601
00:31:13.759 --> 00:31:15.119
help and things will come your way.

602
00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:19.200
And that's just that's it. Especially even with like songwriting specifically.

603
00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:22.599
You know, there's a bunch of virtual kind of songwriting

604
00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:24.960
masterclasses and a lot of classes.

605
00:31:24.599 --> 00:31:26.000
On branding and stuff like that.

606
00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:28.160
So if you know you want, you can go down

607
00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:30.440
the rabbit hole and really try to learn a lot.

608
00:31:30.599 --> 00:31:33.359
But I think, like I'm just over that. All I

609
00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:35.759
used to do is like research, you know, and like

610
00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:38.279
I used to just stress a lot and like just

611
00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:39.960
feel like I need to be looking up this and

612
00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:41.559
I need to be doing this. And now I'm just

613
00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:43.880
like I know that the gifts that I have are

614
00:31:43.960 --> 00:31:46.559
God given and He delivered them to me, so there's

615
00:31:46.680 --> 00:31:48.720
nothing I have to worry about. So I hope that

616
00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:50.640
that can help people because that's kind of how I

617
00:31:50.680 --> 00:31:51.880
had to shift my mentality.

618
00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:57.039
So I'm pretty sure. I mean, it's clear it's really

619
00:31:57.039 --> 00:32:03.119
about mindset, absolutely mind to motivating yourself, looking in the

620
00:32:03.160 --> 00:32:06.880
mirror and seeing what you What you see is what

621
00:32:07.079 --> 00:32:09.599
you want it to be, what you what you want

622
00:32:09.640 --> 00:32:10.480
to see in yourself.

623
00:32:10.799 --> 00:32:11.000
Yeah.

624
00:32:11.079 --> 00:32:15.079
I always talk a lot about just being honest and authentic. Yeah.

625
00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:20.160
So, and you know, they say, I'm really big on manifestation,

626
00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:23.160
and my parents they kind of raised me on that,

627
00:32:23.400 --> 00:32:25.079
and just like the power in the tone.

628
00:32:25.319 --> 00:32:27.720
And so if you you know, even we.

629
00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:29.279
Don't have those days or we don't feel too great

630
00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:31.240
or don't think we look too great, once you really

631
00:32:31.279 --> 00:32:34.119
start saying that out loud, you're gonna start believing it.

632
00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:36.680
You know, you're gonna start believing all the negative things

633
00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:39.359
that your mind hears. And I had an air of

634
00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:41.640
my life where I was there and I was just

635
00:32:41.839 --> 00:32:44.119
so like not feeling myself like.

636
00:32:44.200 --> 00:32:47.079
In so many different ways. And my dad, he's so sweet.

637
00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:50.960
He actually told me to write out, you know, affirmations

638
00:32:51.079 --> 00:32:53.680
and compliments and put them like all around my mirror.

639
00:32:53.839 --> 00:32:55.759
So even if I don't feel like it, the more

640
00:32:55.839 --> 00:32:59.000
that I keep saying it, you're gonna start to feel it.

641
00:32:59.240 --> 00:32:59.400
You know.

642
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:02.640
To tell about mindset, and I just feel like, I

643
00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:03.880
know this world is cruol.

644
00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:06.480
So you have to be you know, your own best friend,

645
00:33:06.519 --> 00:33:08.319
and you have to be nice to yourself because a

646
00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:09.799
lot of people are not going to be nice to you.

647
00:33:10.039 --> 00:33:14.240
They're just not And I've learned that personally. So that's

648
00:33:14.319 --> 00:33:15.200
that definitely.

649
00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:18.039
Well, you have a great head on your shoulders, thank you.

650
00:33:18.799 --> 00:33:21.920
So I'm happy that you are twenty two years old

651
00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:27.519
and still have things seem to be aligned. And that's

652
00:33:27.559 --> 00:33:30.079
a good thing. Yeah, when you're positive and you have

653
00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:32.920
great parents that are teaching you and guiding you and

654
00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:37.559
protecting you, I think that's so necessary for the entertainment

655
00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:40.039
industry and any industry that you want to get into,

656
00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:42.759
because there will be people along the way trying to

657
00:33:42.799 --> 00:33:43.400
knock you down.

658
00:33:43.759 --> 00:33:44.640
And it's so weird.

659
00:33:44.720 --> 00:33:46.599
It's like for a why like me and me and

660
00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:48.559
my friends, a lot of us are creatives and we

661
00:33:48.759 --> 00:33:51.640
just really believe in like there's enough money for everybody,

662
00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:55.279
like there's enough opportunity. But people, you know, they just

663
00:33:55.640 --> 00:33:58.920
they don't like to spread the love, so they will

664
00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:03.000
definitely try to just insult you and the whole nine.

665
00:34:03.079 --> 00:34:04.720
It's all the stuff you see on those in the

666
00:34:04.839 --> 00:34:08.280
movies is so real, like people just knocking you down

667
00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:10.800
and insulting you. And like I said, it can only

668
00:34:10.920 --> 00:34:13.440
get to you if you start believing it and if

669
00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:16.239
you start thinking like, hey wait, maybe they're right, that's

670
00:34:16.280 --> 00:34:18.079
when it can start to affect you. But if you

671
00:34:18.239 --> 00:34:21.760
don't and you know that your gifts are like I said,

672
00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:23.519
god given, nobody can touch you.

673
00:34:23.639 --> 00:34:26.320
It's like you dodge it. It just flows right off.

674
00:34:26.960 --> 00:34:29.639
So it took me a while to get there, but

675
00:34:29.920 --> 00:34:30.920
it's it's just real.

676
00:34:31.159 --> 00:34:34.880
So like Eliasa, dust herself off and try.

677
00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:41.679
Yeah, absolutely literally, Yeah, it's it's necessary. So yeah, definitely.

678
00:34:41.679 --> 00:34:45.320
Well where can everyone listen to your music and follow

679
00:34:45.400 --> 00:34:48.800
you and all that good stuff showing you support? Yeah,

680
00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:52.480
you can find me everywhere on all social media and

681
00:34:52.679 --> 00:34:56.119
I am Lea Simone that's l I as I am

682
00:34:56.239 --> 00:35:00.920
O n E and YouTube, Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon, lia

683
00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:04.119
Simone one word m I A as I am O

684
00:35:04.280 --> 00:35:04.400
n E.

685
00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:05.360
So thank you.

686
00:35:06.280 --> 00:35:09.000
Yay, Well, it was great having you on the show.

687
00:35:09.519 --> 00:35:12.440
I enjoyed you are awesome too.

688
00:35:14.679 --> 00:35:17.880
I think it's probably my profession because you know, by

689
00:35:18.199 --> 00:35:21.480
by day I am a financial aid advisor some kind

690
00:35:21.519 --> 00:35:25.360
of like a therapist you have been. I'm also a

691
00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:30.440
so thank you. I'm also a mental health advocate, so

692
00:35:30.559 --> 00:35:33.639
that helps. And you know I'm a mom, a wife

693
00:35:34.280 --> 00:35:37.480
and all these other hats that I wear, so I

694
00:35:37.639 --> 00:35:39.039
kind of feel like, you know, I just got to

695
00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:42.480
be calm. And I love all my guests who come

696
00:35:42.519 --> 00:35:46.599
on the show. I mean, we always have these inspiring stories.

697
00:35:47.519 --> 00:35:50.440
And I always tell people it's not where you are now,

698
00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:54.199
it's how you're motivating others to get to where they

699
00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:57.000
need to get to, but also motivating yourself along the way.

700
00:35:57.320 --> 00:35:58.280
Yeah definitely.

701
00:35:58.880 --> 00:36:07.159
So I'm a lot older than you, but yeah, you

702
00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:10.039
know I either way, I always feel like your journey

703
00:36:10.280 --> 00:36:14.079
is your journey, and how you choose to you know,

704
00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:18.199
pull others along with the journey, that's what's going to

705
00:36:18.239 --> 00:36:21.199
make us all stronger in United And that's always something

706
00:36:21.239 --> 00:36:24.360
I've wanted, is like I said, to inspire and help

707
00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:27.800
young women and just creatives in general, because I've been

708
00:36:27.960 --> 00:36:30.519
doing this for you know, in the upcoming scene for

709
00:36:30.679 --> 00:36:33.679
four years now, and it's to say it's not easy.

710
00:36:33.800 --> 00:36:35.719
That is just I always say, I need a stronger,

711
00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:39.519
you know, phase to say phrase to say how challenging

712
00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:42.039
it can be. And so I'll just to I will

713
00:36:42.039 --> 00:36:43.880
always want to keep people going, and like I said,

714
00:36:43.960 --> 00:36:46.599
I believe in sharing and that there's enough room for

715
00:36:46.719 --> 00:36:51.039
everybody to get some of this bread. So yes, absolutely,

716
00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:55.559
I'm trying to look for a quote sometimes I'm like

717
00:36:55.679 --> 00:37:00.639
the quote Queen I love. I had a guests on

718
00:37:03.039 --> 00:37:08.760
he was actually a mentee for the White House Wow,

719
00:37:09.519 --> 00:37:12.840
and he said this amazing quote, and I'm like, I

720
00:37:13.800 --> 00:37:16.159
think right now is the perfect time to say it

721
00:37:16.239 --> 00:37:20.039
because you're kind of leaning on that of like bringing

722
00:37:20.119 --> 00:37:27.639
people along or having other people just like, don't forget people. Yeah, yeah,

723
00:37:27.800 --> 00:37:32.599
there's room for all of us. And I think one

724
00:37:32.639 --> 00:37:37.159
of the things that he was saying was when you're

725
00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:41.119
climbing up to the top, don't forget to reach back.

726
00:37:41.639 --> 00:37:48.039
Absolutely love that and that's really what it's about. Yeah, Like,

727
00:37:48.239 --> 00:37:51.440
I love the fact that I can have a platform

728
00:37:51.719 --> 00:37:55.760
and share it with everyone. Yeah, whatever color you are,

729
00:37:56.360 --> 00:38:00.440
whoever you are, everybody has a story within us and

730
00:38:00.599 --> 00:38:01.519
it needs to be heard.

731
00:38:01.960 --> 00:38:05.280
Yeah, totally agree. I love that And thank you for this.

732
00:38:05.519 --> 00:38:06.199
This is awesome.

733
00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:13.039
Yeah, well, thank you so much for being here. Okay,

734
00:38:13.119 --> 00:38:15.000
so you said all that you need to say.

735
00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:19.800
Yes, yes, all social media, all questions. Yes.

736
00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:27.400
Well everyone, please make sure you both of us, yes,

737
00:38:27.639 --> 00:38:31.960
n Simone and myself Nicki Marie on all social media platforms.

738
00:38:32.119 --> 00:38:35.239
You can find me on Instagram and wherever else you

739
00:38:35.400 --> 00:38:38.039
love to listen or wherever you like to follow me

740
00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:42.039
at NICKI Mrie Underscore Radio. All of my information is

741
00:38:42.079 --> 00:38:45.440
at the top, So you don't forget and you don't

742
00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:47.360
mix it up with the two k's. It's just one.

743
00:38:49.559 --> 00:38:49.880
That's me.

744
00:38:50.119 --> 00:38:52.559
I'm like, it's one word. Guys, don't face it out

745
00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:53.559
because you won't find it.

746
00:38:54.440 --> 00:38:58.199
So yeah, absolutely, And like I say on this show,

747
00:38:58.320 --> 00:39:01.480
you have one life to live to the fullest and

748
00:39:02.079 --> 00:39:04.920
make sure you get to the top and reach back. Man,

749
00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:08.599
there's so many people that are hurting and they need support.

750
00:39:08.880 --> 00:39:13.199
So do what you can and love each other, but

751
00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:17.280
more importantly, love yourself. What's up everybody?

752
00:39:17.719 --> 00:39:21.039
You're listening to my song can't be beat on Nick

753
00:39:21.159 --> 00:39:21.760
Marie Radio?

754
00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:34.239
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, come on, come on, come on,

755
00:39:34.519 --> 00:39:34.760
come on?

756
00:39:39.119 --> 00:39:42.039
Is Leah is Leah Simons. See you.

757
00:39:43.599 --> 00:39:47.000
Think what you get in the street.

758
00:39:47.320 --> 00:39:52.079
No, I know you like to speed. Let's put it

759
00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:58.559
on the beat. Your yok beat you and your little

760
00:39:58.719 --> 00:40:00.880
click please stop o kin ship.

761
00:40:01.400 --> 00:40:02.960
Just enjoy this kick.

762
00:40:03.480 --> 00:40:04.519
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.

763
00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:07.920
Don't look my way if you come my way, talking ship.

764
00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:10.880
But I'm here to say practicing, there's no time to play.

765
00:40:11.000 --> 00:40:12.880
So do you keep up in any time a day?

766
00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:21.760
Do you up like a betty mad? Do you keep

767
00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:22.639
up like a beddy?

768
00:40:22.679 --> 00:40:22.880
May?

769
00:40:23.360 --> 00:40:27.599
Please don't come around this bay, I say, I say, please,

770
00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:28.920
don't come around my way.

771
00:40:29.400 --> 00:40:30.920
I'm not here for your display.

772
00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:35.159
All the niggas he was paying away, I say, I say,

773
00:40:35.400 --> 00:40:36.840
oh niggas it was disobey.

774
00:40:37.360 --> 00:40:41.280
I see you. I think you want a pig, but

775
00:40:41.559 --> 00:40:47.000
you can treat no. I know you like a speed.

776
00:40:47.320 --> 00:40:51.039
Let's put it on a peak. Your your ky complete

777
00:40:54.519 --> 00:41:00.320
so sweet fu you might want to have Seph.

778
00:41:01.440 --> 00:41:04.360
Got that off straight, no submission, man, bitch your best

779
00:41:04.400 --> 00:41:08.280
plate petition, but your man straight autition. You're so enough

780
00:41:08.320 --> 00:41:11.440
to stay dripping. I don't mean that you don't see that.

781
00:41:11.760 --> 00:41:14.800
I got skilled, weak to see, I got reflex. He

782
00:41:14.920 --> 00:41:17.119
goes relapsed money spelled like the trees.

783
00:41:17.760 --> 00:41:19.480
I can teach that you don't need that.

784
00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:21.159
Maybe more with the breed.

785
00:41:24.440 --> 00:41:27.119
Got a sight now everybody wants something better lie you do,

786
00:41:27.480 --> 00:41:29.480
But I'm never that You've never like Now maybe a

787
00:41:29.480 --> 00:41:30.639
better still open here right now?

788
00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:31.519
Baby about to shine.

789
00:41:31.639 --> 00:41:36.519
U turn sakers up your fucking wing.

790
00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:52.679
Marie, come come, don'll slave no slave.

791
00:41:55.159 --> 00:42:09.880
On the track. Let's get it out.

792
00:42:12.079 --> 00:42:14.719
Two in the morning. I'm just trying to get my

793
00:42:14.920 --> 00:42:19.000
head right after body feeling naughty, but I'm not that.

794
00:42:19.480 --> 00:42:22.760
I tell the DJ turn up the music for me

795
00:42:23.039 --> 00:42:26.440
all night. Boy, want to stop playing with my mind.

796
00:42:26.519 --> 00:42:27.760
I don't got no child.

797
00:42:28.360 --> 00:42:31.000
Just call your friends and I'll get my girl's weekends

798
00:42:31.039 --> 00:42:35.119
at it. Anything I want, I get it no matter.

799
00:42:35.039 --> 00:42:35.760
What the cost.

800
00:42:36.280 --> 00:42:39.239
You say you're differing, but you just like every guy

801
00:42:39.360 --> 00:42:43.280
that lost my thought for budding you in the presence.

802
00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:43.960
Of a real boy.

803
00:42:44.679 --> 00:42:49.519
I'm trying to do in that night. I feel it

804
00:42:49.719 --> 00:42:50.440
in the ear.

805
00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:54.000
I'm really in the.

806
00:42:54.199 --> 00:42:57.719
Moment to.

807
00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:02.199
Right. Let's get it right. Let's get right.

808
00:43:03.480 --> 00:43:05.199
Let's see it right, Let's see it right.

809
00:43:05.519 --> 00:43:06.239
Let's get it right.

810
00:43:07.519 --> 00:43:08.239
Let's see it right.

811
00:43:08.519 --> 00:43:10.239
Let's see it right. Let's see it right.

812
00:43:11.559 --> 00:43:12.280
Let's see it right.

813
00:43:12.400 --> 00:43:14.280
Well, let's get it right. Let's get right.

814
00:43:16.920 --> 00:43:19.440
This jam in the tornado Tornado?

815
00:43:19.760 --> 00:43:20.119
U huh?

816
00:43:20.679 --> 00:43:25.280
If this seal jam in Tornado Tornado. If the seal

817
00:43:25.400 --> 00:43:31.519
jam in Tornado Tonado, If this seal jamn Tornado, Tournado.

818
00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:35.119
You say you want this with a baby, That's not

819
00:43:35.239 --> 00:43:38.280
what you show win me every time we go out.

820
00:43:38.320 --> 00:43:42.039
You out here, OKR fe I told you I don't

821
00:43:42.119 --> 00:43:44.480
have time for all these little games.

822
00:43:44.880 --> 00:43:48.320
I'm out here working hard on my way to face