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Celeb News: Lea: 'Cannonball Helped Me With My Loss'
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Lea: 'Cannonball Helped Me With My Loss'
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Lea Michele didn't intend on coming in like a "Cannonball" on her debut album, Louder. But after a life-changing event, the "Glee" actress added the song, out Tuesday (December 10), to the release.
When her boyfriend and fellow "Glee" star Cory Monteith died in July, Michele decided to put her album on hold, despite finishing it back in June. That's when she sat down with songwriter Sia to see if there was anything else she wanted to share when it comes out March 4.
"We just were talking and seeing if we wanted to add anything to the record," she told MTV News. "Cory had heard every song from the album, obviously with the exception of those two ['Cannonball' and 'If You Say So']. And I figured I had the opportunity, if I want to add anything, and we sat down and we came up with 'If You Say So,' which is a very, very, very personal, it's a very personal and it's a very intense song for me, that's one thing."
"And I just felt that 'Cannonball' was the perfect first song for people to hear from this record," she added. "It just really explains where I am right now and it's been such an inspirational song for me. It's been such a rock, such a source of strength for me."
She knew she needed to hit the studio one more time back in August to make "Cannonball" happen.
"[Sia] said to me 'How do you feel in this moment?' And I said 'I just feel like grief is the hardest thing in the whole world. And you have the opportunity, at a certain point, to either let it kind of take you down or try your best to rise,' " she recalled, admitting that her dad started crying in the studio. "And I said 'I need to get out and I need to move forward in his memory and do everything I can for him.' "
And if fans feel her emotions on "Cannonball," co-written by Sia with Benny Blanco and produced by Stargate, then it's because she feels such a strong connection to it.
"The minute I heard the song, I had a physical reaction to it. For me, it's been my strength," she said, "I listen to it every day. I know it was brought into my life for a reason. It's really been so helpful for me and I hope it's the same for other people as it's been for me."
While the lyrics about finding inner strength after a difficult experience mirror Michele's own life, she revealed that the song wasn't originally penned for her, but has since become her anthem.
"I think the great thing is that it's such a universal song; it certainly helped me with my loss that I'm dealing with," she said. "And I think it will translate and help people with whatever they need it for. I hope it gives them the strength that it's given me."
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http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/171...monteith.jhtml
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You know what? **** this fake ass bitch.
She & Cory were staged & never real. And Cannonball is a generic, faceless, boring, weak, uninspiring, fluorescent beige, calculated, routine, basic, underwhelming, mindless, and deeply unsatisfying song. I can't wait for her to flop.
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It's kinda tacky to be using your boyfriends death to try and promote your new single. I wish she just kept it shut and let people interpret, shows how fake she is tbh
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Originally posted by Ice Cream Skies
You know what? **** this bitch.
She & Cory were staged & never real. And Cannonball is a generic, faceless, boring, weak, uninspiring, fluorescent beige, calculated, routine, basic, underwhelming, mindless, and deeply unsatisfying song. I can't wait for her to flop. |
Damn...
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I was rooting for her to release some heart wrenching power ballad and slay my soul. And she came out with this generic ass trash?!
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Sia and Benny Blacno? Sia with the cheesefest songs 
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Originally posted by CakeLike
It's kinda tacky to be using your boyfriends death to try and promote your new single. I wish she just kept it shut and let people interpret, shows how fake she is tbh
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It's kinda tacky to be using your grandfathers death to try and promote your new single. I wish she just kept it shut and let people interpret, shows how fake she is tbh
I mean, how dare artists explain the inspiration to their songs and how they are relatable to their own lives!
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Is she capitalizing on his death for this song to take off? A little too early for that. Let the song take off on its own then mention and talk how it reflected on her dealing with that part of her life.
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Y'all a mess. Using her boyfriends death? His death inspired this song and there's nothing wrong with that. It got her through her loss and some of you have the ****in nerve to call her tacky for it? Smh 
Glad lea found the strength she needed. 
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Originally posted by MetalHausOfJosh
Y'all a mess. Using her boyfriends death? His death inspired this song and there's nothing wrong with that. It got her through her loss and some of you have the ****in nerve to call her tacky for it? Smh
Glad lea found the strength she needed. |
Like, really. It happened to her. She's not allowed to talk about it? 
Some people...
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Originally posted by zach
It's kinda tacky to be using your grandfathers death to try and promote your new single. I wish she just kept it shut and let people interpret, shows how fake she is tbh
I mean, how dare artists explain the inspiration to their songs and how they are relatable to their own lives!
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Originally posted by Ice Cream Skies
You know what? **** this bitch.
She & Cory were staged & never real. And Cannonball is a generic, faceless, boring, weak, uninspiring, fluorescent beige, calculated, routine, basic, underwhelming, mindless, and deeply unsatisfying song. I can't wait for her to flop. |
Don't hold back now, tell us how you REALLY feel.. 
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Originally posted by Ice Cream Skies
You know what? **** this fake ass bitch.
She & Cory were staged & never real. And Cannonball is a generic, faceless, boring, weak, uninspiring, fluorescent beige, calculated, routine, basic, underwhelming, mindless, and deeply unsatisfying song. I can't wait for her to flop. |
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Dear lord, some of you are ****ing unbelievable. She was just explaining where the inspiration of the song came from. Chill the **** out.
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Shame on all of you for even thinking such things. I hate glee and I will admit that I have never been a huge fan of Ms. Michelle, but what she is going through is not for anyone here to decide. Y'all can shut up, and either like or not like the song. That is the only judgement you are allowed to make. Pathetic.
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Sorry, but he's right. Anyone who knows Lea knows who she really is. She's a good actress who played the role of grieving widow brilliantly.
But, it's nice to see after all this time she's still keeping up appearances. As tacky and self-absorbed as ever.
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ATRL members are ****ing insane. Wait till something like that happens to you.
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I think even if she really meant it, she should have just kept it to herself. It does not appear respectful to the man she loves.
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Originally posted by CakeLike
It's kinda tacky to be using your boyfriends death to try and promote your new single. I wish she just kept it shut and let people interpret, shows how fake she is tbh
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