![]() ![]() Then, being able to verbalize it and say it right away. What is it, and where did it come from?” Sometimes, it comes from a place where it doesn’t have anything to do with that person that you’re actually dealing with at the time. Now, I’ve gotten much better at identifying, “OK - that was a real emotion I had. You know when there’s a thing and it hits you sideways, and you have to take a minute to be like, “Ooh, I didn’t like that or that bothered me.” In the past, I would have rattled off reasons as to why it was all right, and how it wasn’t meant to be or whatever. One part of the self care I’m using 1000% is understanding my feelings and emotions, and being able to verbalize them immediately. What forms of self care are you using right now to stay the best version of yourself? You told us last year that working on your new album Alicia along with your autobiography was the best therapy for you. In a way, we’re all in this place of where we need to sit down, take inventory, do more listening and realize what part we want to contribute in order to do that. But sometimes, you need to just sit down. I’m a manifestor, I’m a dreamer, and I can make it happen. But there’s a faith that I have that’s definitely the reason why I started listening to the calling of what needs to be said and what needs to be done and just do it. You might not know why certain things are happening the way that they are happening. I’m sure I’m not alone when I say nobody expected 2020 to be what it is, but you know what? I think that during this pandemic, I definitely have been able to pivot by understanding that I don’t have control of everything, and that’s OK. There’s definitely been a lot of pivoting for a lot of us. In what ways have you learned how to pivot as a mother and artist during this pandemic? I remember in your 73 questions interview with Vogue, you spoke about the importance of pivoting in your role as Grammys host, after the passing of Kobe Bryant the day of the awards. So that’s been a new discovery and I’ve been really loving getting to know these other sides of myself and that particular side of myself. ![]() I definitely have to live in my truth and in my genuine authentic energy. I am my own beautiful woman, and I am in a space whether you like or you don’t like it, it doesn’t really matter to me. They use you to try to sell papers, and you gotta guard it.Īt some point I realized that I don’t gotta guard it like that. I wasn’t, but you always gotta kind of guard your tongue. It’s not that I wasn’t being honest or holding anything back. It was making me politically correct, versus factual and honest. I lived like that for a lot of years, thinking that was the way to be, and it wasn’t until more recently coming into my womanhood, and understanding that I’ve adopted a lot of ways that definitely was aggressive. I put up this wall so that I couldn’t be touched or hurt. And with the New York in me, it’s natural that you want to protect yourself at all costs. I had to do that and put that protection in me. From an early age, I kind of learned how to guard myself and protect myself, because I was always in places I wasn’t familiar and I was always the only one in these new environments. So it’s always been a tricky world to navigate, because it just doesn’t make any sense and it’s not natural. I grew up in this industry - I was 14 when I was first signed and 20 when my first record dropped. I feel like it’s been over the past three, four years. ![]() To be honest, it was more recently than not. I’m living the way that I want.” At what point in your life did you decide to live in your truth freely and without repercussions? On the hook, you sing: “I’m so done guarding my tongue. We happened to have that conversation, and I was talking about my personal circumstances and he was talking about his. We found ourselves in a conversation about being over fixing yourself and changing yourself for other peoples’ benefits. None of us have ever written together before.īut it was super amazing. And we also collaborated with Ludwig Göransson, who’s Childish Gambino’s main producer. We connected, got together - and it’s actually crazy because when I reflect on it, I usually don’t write with people that I don’t know, just because it’s such an intimate space. ![]()
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