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for too long. I know it's wrong, but never say I'm sorry.

Now I try to think it over.

I'm worried.

I think in the summer vacation represents to me my fearlessness when it

experimenting, not just with my sound, but also with my identity and the way

that I want to be seen, whether that's visually with my hair, with my looks,

with the visuals accompanying the music. This album feels like it's kind of a

concoction of all of the best of those sounds that I've tried out. I've been

calling. this album the cinderella shoe because it's just a perfect fit and it

feels like it's only mine and it could only be mine here we go set nice and

quiet everybody hold still please we're rolling sound on this

If I had control of you

We could stay

Make it last till we die My baby's got lips like kale Make a

mess of a nice hotel If I had control over you

We could stay like

I'm writing a song. I try to be really descriptive in my lyrics and paint a

picture of the moment in time that the song stemmed from. So the visuals are

pretty vivid in the words, you know, whether it's sticky, sweet lemonade,

in rose colored lenses, you know, you can kind of taste that. The fun thing

is if you're a friend of mine, if you're close to me and you listen to this

album, it sounds like a conversation with me. There's subtle shade.

There's... you know, honesty and truth and there's some wisdom and there's some

humor and there's some heaviness and depth.

It really represents who I am and I feel that the greatest records that I've

been able to make or the greatest songs that I've been able to write, they do

exactly that. They just really connect me and whoever's listening in a way that

feels like an intimate, honest conversation.

So this is the one that I said no one...

They might not use it, but I can't fake it, so I'm going to tell you the truth.

But I might get a little emotional.

I have to collect myself.

When I wrote Thousand Miles, it started as a song that was very different from

the one that's on the album.

I wrote it in 2016 or 2017, and it was

after one of...

my really close friends lost her sister to suicide and um I

just couldn't imagine not having my little sister in my life and so I wrote

this song for her and it was originally called happy girl and it was I just want

to see you happy and all I really want is just for you to be happy girl and it

was just about happiness and sisterhood and

It just makes me emotional because now the song is filled with so

much joy in the music and it's become something so far

from the sadness that inspired the song.

My makeup's still beat.

Thank you.

I'm driving around town in a beat up old Mercedes.

You think I'm crazy.

Well, you might be right.

But when he smiles, I don't care about the past.

Just like that.

I told myself I'd close that door, but I'm right back here again.

Half of what I'm saying don't make no sense.

here again I know after what I'm saying don't

I told myself to close that door and I'll write back here again.

Half a line of saying don't make no sense.

makes me emotional so we'll see if i can sing it but it said

there was a friend of mine her name was darlene but all of us called her

becky

I don't know why.

I knew she was hurting.

But I never thought I'd wake up to that call.

Never at all.

And I remember on that day I promised you the world.

But soon realized the world ain't what you need.

Now all I want is simply for you to be happy, girl.

Even if that's a world without me.

And somehow it evolved to a song that's about happiness and joy and being okay

with not knowing exactly where you're going.

Maybe I could say, not break your heart.

But don't forget, baby, that I'm a wild card.

in the door but my lips ain't red on the floor and the flowers

make the music stop before it starts

but don't forget baby

The sequencing of an album is very important to me. I kind of think of it

film. You know, you want there to be a conflict and an overcoming. And when it

comes to the sequencing of In the Summer Vacation, I divided it by two parts, a

.m. and p .m., to kind of represent almost like an act.

And the a .m. to me is representing the morning time where there's like a buzz

and an energy and there's a potential.

new possibilities it's a new day and in the night time it feels that there's

like a slinky seediness and kind of a grime but a glamour at the same time

and you know in the evening it's a great time for a rest it's a time to recover

or it's a time to go out and experience kind of the wild side and LA

there's a certain energy to the night that you can kind of feel trouble boil

to the surface and it's very inspiring to me.

When I came up with an idea for Island, the idea was kind of everyone is still a

stranger to me, but I'm a stranger to no one.

For me, I've been able to create these paradises where I feel safe, but I was

contemplating this life that I have for myself.

Is it a paradise or is it a lonely island?

I'm on an island, dirty, dancing in the sun.

So close to heaven, but so far from everyone.

Yeah, I got treasure buried underneath the sand.

But I'm still wishing for the love that I don't have.

Mama told me, girl, smoke them if you got them.

If I light it back at home with all my...

is such a song

My nails today are this 2000s French tip because like 2002 through eight was a

really strong time for me.

I was in sixth grade. I was slaying.

And when I saw women with French tips, I just always wanted to be like them,

whether that was Britney Spears or Pamela Anderson or even my mom. I

mom would like get her nails done.

and she would always have these really long, gorgeous, feminine, sexy nails,

she was never afraid to break one.

When we started writing the song Wonder Woman, the lyrics felt

like too big of a shoe for me to fill.

I wrote this song after my mom had lost her mom, and me and my

mammy were really close, and she ran my fan club.

If you ever got an autograph from my fan club sent in for probably 2008

to 2018, that was my grandma. She responded back to every single fan. She

the fan club in my dressing room at Hannah Montana.

Then when we stopped doing Hannah Montana, my fan club ran out of her

And it was just the joy of her life being the head of my fan club. And she's

always just supported me.

And my mom and her mom were just really, really close. Me and my mom are really

close. You know, this song is about, I guess, that kind of generational

and the wisdom that my grandma gave to my mom. It was embedded in my DNA.

So we almost all feel like just one woman in a way.

One Wonder Woman.

She's a wonder woman

She knows what

for an artist can feel like torture so i always need to reinvent and in this era

the way i've been doing that is bringing my audience into my endless summer

vacation in a way it's a vacation from taking myself and the success of records

so seriously and just doing it for the reason i started writing music because i

love it beginning and end i can almost see

Okay,

we're reset.

The journey is usually the part that you remember anyways.

Usually the getting there, once you're there, wherever that may be, you're

this is what I've been expecting?

And usually you look back and the journey was actually the part that was

makes up your life.

I can almost see it, that dream I'm dreaming, but there's a

voice inside my head saying, you'll never reach it.

Every step I'm taking, every move I make feel lost

with no direction.

My faith is shaking.

I'm facing, the chances I'm taking, sometimes might knock me

down, but no, I'm not breaking, and I may not know it,

but these are the moments that I'm gonna remember most, yeah, just

gotta keep going.

It was a time in my life where I was going through just a lot emotionally and

personally.

And then I had a dance party with my friends. The rule was that every girl

to bring their gay best friend. No entrance.

That was your pass.

That was how you entered.

And we were listening to Diana Ross, Whitney, Lindsay Lohan, Paris,

Brittany, you know, all the legends.

We had little... We had boys in crop tops, little shorts, little high heels.

had like bundles and bundles. The hair was like everyone was Rapunzel.

And it was just, it was so inspiring. Again, I guess all my songs kind of

evolve. They could start as something that was a trouble.

Like it just feels like it's an April shower.

It never stops raining. And then it started raining down like love.

River, sometimes we just need a dance floor banger. AKA they don't want me to

talk about how the fact the song is about.

It's nasty.

I got a new dress to meet you downtown.

Then you walk me through the bar to show it off.

I can pull my hair back in the tight way that you like. If you wrap me in your

arms, it'll never stop.

Heartbeat so loud that it's drowning me out.

Living in an April shower.

You're pouring down, baby, drown me out.

You could be the one, the honor of my babes. Hope they have your eyes on that

crooked smile.

Was it dead before I met you? I was in a jail.

Highlighting negativity is pretty constant. We wake up with devastating

sadness and hurt and pain.

All of that is very real and should never be ignored.

But we also can't erase that at the same time there is joy, there's growth,

there's connection.

I'm so fortunate to be physically and mentally well. And so I think that needs

to be honored and celebrated. Self -love is...

a conversation that's really amazingly kind of current. I think all of us are

waking up to, you know, what Mama Ru has been saying for a long time now. If you

can't love yourself, how in the hell are you going to love somebody else? Can I

get an amen?

The demo of Flowers is pretty different from what ended up being released to the

world as this like celebratory song. It actually is more melancholy.

Really, when you strip away all the sounds and all the big harmonies,

lot of sadness to it.

But I've always, I've liked the idea of fake it till you make it. And on the

first chorus, I'm kind of telling myself and I'm trying to convince myself.

And by the third chorus, you can hear that there's a confidence that I finally

believe it.

i think you can hear that a lot in the demo because everything is just stripped

away so you can really hear the kind of evolution of that song okay miley good

yeah thank you ready we were good

we were gold kind of dream that can't be sold

we were right till we weren't built a home

I didn't want to leave you. I didn't want to lie.

Started to cry.

Oh, yeah

to cry.