The problem with staying in the relationship, however, was the way it affected the rest of her life.<\/p>\n
“You keep accepting things lower than your standard, and that influences every single thing in your life – because when you let yourself go, romantically and emotionally, it affects you physically, and the music, and all of that.<\/p>\n
“So even though I enjoyed [the romance] while it lasted, I picked my priorities and what was most important to me. And that relationship wasn’t as important as the music… or anything else.”<\/p>\n
The story could act as a metaphor for the entire album. After the runaway success of her breakout single, Rush, and her second album, The Year I Turned 21, Starr was beginning to feel trapped by other people’s expectations.<\/p>\n
“Just like any other pop artist, passive listeners get attached to the songs they know – the popular songs.<\/p>\n
“Then you’re stuck between creating for the passive listeners and creating for your core fans who want you to do more.<\/p>\n
“So that can limit you, because you stop thinking as an artist and start thinking about making music just for consumers.<\/p>\n
“But I’m not meant to conform. It’s just not who I am. I will rebel against every single preconception and every stereotype.”<\/p>\n
So she’s ditched the teenage angst of her debut, but also the poise of its follow-up. This is an album about walking to her own rhythm, as Starr grows into autonomy and womanhood.<\/p>\n
On Misunderstood, she laughs at the people who told her she’d “never make it on her own”; while the laid back groove of Treasure allows Starr to pause and savour her success.<\/p>\n
“Give me some fun \/ Pure enjoyment \/ Take a photo of me,” she sings in Yoraba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The problem with staying in the relationship, however, was the way it affected the rest of her life.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-736284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}