Your songs seem to really spread across a variety of genres—"
Cry Wolf" has that neo-folk, Mumford & Sons thing—
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I hate that song! That song got leaked. It was never supposed to be out. I went through that stage of the Mumford & Sons and the Alanis Morissette vibe. I was in a dark place at the time. Now I’m doing what I had always done from the beginning. When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with. Now I’m back to my roots: a New York City chick who grew up on hip-hop. My favorite artists are Kanye West, Jay Z, the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Destiny’s Child. I wrote that song four or five years ago, so it’s a different me.
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