Paige Elliot Responds to E!'s Questions
After an eventful past few days, including lesbian rumors and fellow artists stepping up competition, Paige Elliot has remained generally silent on details of her life recently, other than explaining her new single "S/E/X", until E! recently began to question her on things:
What do you have to say about the lesbian rumors about you and Taylor Swift? People have seen you two hang out a lot recently, and even claim they saw a kiss at one point.
"I don't care much about the rumors for it. I'm great friends with Taylor; I'd call her one of my best friends. Though I consider myself open to relationships with anyone, given the right circumstances and the right person, I'm not dating her, nor would I be willing to mess up any friendship we have. We're close, and I'm happy to say that. We all share our affection in different ways; we just happen to kiss each other like that. It's not like we have our tongues hanging out of our mouths all the time and slobber all over each other. It's a hug, maybe a small peck here and there. We just do whatever. We're comfortable with each other like that. I'm really glad to have someone like her here to support me at all times. Though, even if I was dating her, so what? It's not a big deal. Screw anyone that thinks it's a problem if we were."
Since you're not dating Taylor Swift, is there anyone you've been romantic with lately?
"Actually, yeah. I have a boyfriend, currently, and we've been going out since around Christmas. Things are going great with him, and things are getting really serious... I'm not sure if he's ready to go open about it, but I don't think I am. We're keeping things in the dark for a while, but maybe we'll be ready soon. I know some of you are really interested in knowing, and I can say he's a fellow actor... He's quite a bit older than me, and I think the age difference would cause issues in other peoples' eyes, which is part of the reason why I don't think we're ready to go open about it, but whatever. I love him, and we're happy now."
Any thoughts on the current state of music?
"I think it's as normal as ever. We still have people who do the same, boring things and continue to practically release something over and over, but you'll always have the musical drones; I mean, they're necessary. If it wasn't for those type of people being there to support us from the bottom, then being #1 wouldn't be a real accomplishment, would it? I mean, I try to recreate myself all the time. I had a party album, and I had my emotional one... This next one's sort of similar to the first one, as in there are some definite carefree themes, but also has elements of the second one, with EDM productions. The lyrics, in general, though, are vastly different. The lead single sums things up well lyrically, but not sonically. I think moving forward is a good thing, and the music industry is doing just that. We have these innovative musical geniuses, which is great, but then we have, as I said, the drones, as I like to call them... The people who are always just there in the background doing whatever. Some people have the luxury of being able to release the same garbage over and over and still do well; good for them. Others just do boring stuff, and I guess that's fine. It just makes the good look even better."
When can we expect the album to drop?
"All will be revealed soon. It's coming... You'll just have to wait. I'll release the second single before the album drops, definitely. And no, it won't be featuring some guest artist to try and get those extra few cents like some girls do."