“I didn’t ever care if people liked me. But if you can end up in a place where your work is seen in a certain light that’s true for you? Then that’s amazing,' said therealsophieb
ophie B. Hawkins, the trailblazing singer-songwriter who shot to fame in the early ’90s on the backs of hits like “Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover” and “As I Lay Me Down,” has a lot going on that she can’t wait to talk about, namely the impending release of, her first album in more than a decade. But first, she needs to tell us about the huge gray wolf she saw yesterday in her neighbor’s driveway.
The road to get to that place hasn’t always been smooth for Hawkins, who became an independent artist after a career-stalling dispute with her former record label, Sony Music, in 1998 before the release of her third album. She’s faced both the ire of bigots who hated her use of “she” pronouns in “Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover” and the “, out this Friday, she’s accepted that pleasing everyone is impossible, and that radical self-love is her truest aim.
So was “Better Off Without You” the first song you wrote for this album? Did the process start there? There’s a similar sort of fighting spirit on the title track, “Free Myself,” though it seems to be speaking to something larger than yourself. There are lyrics about how we should all be able to make our own decisions about who to love and who to marry. What were you thinking about when you were writing that song?Yes, you’re right. That has also been one of my lifelong struggles, and I can’t help it.
I was just not gonna let them push me around. And I was a New Yorker, for one thing, so no one was going to mess with me []. I had already been carrying my drum set up and down four flights of subway stairs twice a day for years. So I will say, I had total control of the music, the lyrics, all that. But the image part was hard.I didn’t understand… we didn’t grow up looking in mirrors. I never valued the outside of myself very much.
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