Ella Mai Quotes
There's a place for R&B in the U.K. industry - a huge market. I hope that 'Boo'd Up' can be a testament to the fact. Sometimes, it takes you moving outside the box to prove that it can be done.
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It was such a culture shock for me, being plucked from this diverse neighborhood in London into Jamaica Queens. I'm in this new environment, and I had an English accent.
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I definitely believe that there are songs that, as artists, we don't know the full potential.
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I've learned a lot. I've seen a lot. I've grown a lot.
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As much as heartbreak music might be therapeutic, we all want love and long for that feeling. So if a song can give you that feeling, even without being in love, that's amazing.
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It's okay to wake up and look however you look. You are beautiful regardless.
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I think originality is something that's important and catches people's eye.
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The word 'album' makes you nervous, especially 'debut album.'
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With social media especially, there's a lot of image issues that everyone faces because there's so much pressure on us.
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A lot of the times, if relationships go badly, you concentrate on the negative. But in those situations, there is always a positive outcome that you can learn from. So, I like to concentrate on the lesson and how I can learn from this. I concentrate on me rather than concentrating on the actual situation.
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There's loads of eyes and expectations. People are almost waiting for you to make a mistake so they can say, 'Oh, she's a one-hit wonder!'
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I'm someone who likes routine.
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I think R&B is way bigger in America. It's not really that mainstream in the U.K.
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From the end of 2015 to the start of 2016, I was always at the studio with Mustard, just figuring out a sound.
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I was 12 years old when I first moved to New York, and at that age, you're trying to find yourself. It was hard being so different from everyone I was around, and I felt that nobody could really understand me because everyone was American, and I was this little English girl with an accent.
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I always felt like I could go to my mom and speak to her about anything. We have a great relationship.
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It's been cool to have my name mentioned when people say R&B is on the comeback and I'm the leading person. If you had told me at 16 that I would be that person - you're lying.
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I'm very big on feeling.
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Sometimes we misinterpret, sometimes we misunderstand, sometimes we make mistakes.
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L.A. is so slow. Everyone is so chill, and the weather, of course, makes everything better, but it's just a different vibe.
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I like to leave things open to interpretation. But I also like to make a point. There's two meanings behind each EP title. With 'Time,' that was 'time to move on': you know, you've been in a bad situation; this is enough. But it was also time, in my life, for introducing myself, my first project I was putting out with Mustard. A new exciting time.
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'Naked' embodies what everyone, at the end of the day, really wants and how they should feel.
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I wanted to show people that I don't just make love songs that are about purely being in love.
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Mustard saw my Instagram probably, like, August of 2015. He just reached out to me by DM on Instagram.
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There's a place for R&B in the U.K. industry - a huge market. I hope that 'Boo'd Up' can be a testament to the fact. Sometimes, it takes you moving outside the box to prove that it can be done.