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Last year, your debut album This Time was released. What changed in the past year?

Oh my god, everything! It was my first album, so there was so much anticipation and work that went into it. Once it’s out in the world, it’s all about trying to share it as much as possible with as many people as possible.

I’ve spent the last year touring as an opening act, had my own headline tour in the States and visited places in different countries for the very first time. This is probably the last bit of promotion I’m doing for this record and I’m really excited to be on this Lewis Capaldi tour. I see so many new places through performing songs of my first record. It’s been quite a year and I’m so proud of the record, because it took so much perseverance to finish the album. I’m so grateful to have had the opportunity to be the kind of artist that could make an album, because it’s somehow becoming a rarity. I want to make albums for the rest of my life, so I’m excited for the next one.

What’s the concept of the album and what’s it about?

This Time is written over a few years and I was writing it while I was trying to figure out who I was and what I wanted to be or pursue. When I began writing it, I thought I was meant to write for other artists and I’ve been saying that for a long time. The album came together over a long period of time and I feel like I figured so much more out about myself than I intended to. The album ended up being this curation of songs that meant something special at the time that I was writing them.

I really wanted to focus on that theme of “time” and the importance we put on the concept “time”. It’s also about how important it seems to be for everyone universally and I thought it was interesting that, as I was making the record, I was running out of time and really discovered so much about myself. The idea of running out of time is not real and doesn’t exist. Time is really what you make of it. Those are the things I wanted to talk about on the record.

The album opener “Girl” is one of our favorites of the record, because you’re very critical towards our society that forces women to compete against each other. Is that something you’ve witnessed in your career as well?

Absolutely! Since we’re little kids, we’re told about this vital structure between men and women. Where there are only a few positions in our culture of importance and power that are given to women and if we want one of these positions, we have to compete against the women next to us. Since I’ve been making and releasing music, I’ve seen this massive cultural shift where women are changing that conversation and I’m so inspired by that.