Skylar Grey is understandably exhausted. She is sitting at LAX after a ten-hour flight, waiting to go home following four whirlwind days in Glasgow bookended by her surprise appearance with MTV EMAs host Nicki Minaj. The two debuted Minaj’s new single, “Bed Of Lies.”
No stranger to collaborations with rapper, Grey also recently appeared on T.I.’s “New National Anthem” and has a song called "Twisted" with Eminem and Yelawolf coming on the ShadyXV compilation, due out Nov. 24. The Utah-based singer spoke to Billboard about how “Bed Of Lies” came to be, her own sophomore album and what Minaj shares in common with Eminem.
Are you officially on the “Bed Of Lies” single?
Yeah, the song started being written almost a year ago and then she picked it up and wrote her verses on it. Luckily, she liked the demo of it enough to keep me on the song. I knew it was maybe gonna happen, but she released a lot of different singles first. So I didn’t really know when she was gonna drop this song. And then about a week ago I got a call from her team and they wondered if I could come to Scotland and do the song with them. So yeah, it was the debut of this single featuring me.
How did she get the song?
I don’t know who actually played it for her initially, or the beginning of the song, but she somehow got it in her hands and finished it. It’s really great. She kind of poured her heart out on the verses. I personally think as a fan it’s a nice contrast to her other singles on the record. You get to see another side of her.
I would say PNP is her diary entries and BOL is the aftermath of following through with ha decision but she's saying good things so I ain't mad...just disagree that BOL is a contrast to all of her singles so far. Upgraded PNP if you ask me.
I'd say they were using "single" and "song" as synonyms in the article.
Of course, it'll more than likely become a single, but I have a feeling it won't be released for a while... until closer to the SNL/album release date.