Skylar Grey talks new self-titled album, Eminem and more.
This week, Skylar Grey finally dropped her long-awaited new self titled album, which is her first in over 6 years. The Singer-Songwriter sat down with StupidDOPE for a new interview as part of the promo run. “I feel like I’ve put out a lot of music that didn’t necessarily represent me,” she said about the album. “I was signed to labels and working with producers. This album is almost entirely written and produced by me, and I have no label. So I’m the only cook in the kitchen. I felt like it was important for me to self-titled the album because of that.”
Grey is one of the go-to collaborators of legendary Eminem, and she rose to fame with the Recover hit “Love The Way You Lie”, but she does get tired of people asking her about the Detroit rapper all the time.
You’ve been a part of so many projects and so many hit songs over the years. What’s one song or project you worked on that really affected you the most?
I mean, “Love The Way You Lie”. Obviously, the one that really set my career off and also was the beginning of an amazing relationship with Eminem. He continues to work with me and take my hooks and put them on his albums and it’s really awesome.
It’s great that you guys have maintained this relationship after all this time.
I know, I’m so grateful, he’s the best.
It seems like he really trusts you with your vision and you guys just work so well together. On the other hand, do you ever get tired of people asking you about Eminem?
Yeah.
That’s got to be the go-to thing people ask you about.
Yeah, it is but you know, I’m grateful for everything he’s done for me and being able to work so closely with him. So it’s to be expected. It’s okay.
Your song “Coming Home” with Dirty Money, which was released in 2010, is now seeing a huge resurgence thanks to apps like TikTok. How do you feel about TikTok from an artist perspective?
I think if you can find a way to make TikTok work in a way that’s authentic for you it’s totally cool and great and another tool that we can use to promote our music and stuff as artists. I see a lot of people doing stuff, and I’ve done this too because I was like I’m going to figure out TikTok, but then I end up feeling like an idiot, like I look stupid. Like, what am I doing this isn’t me, it’s not authentic. So I’ve deleted a bunch of videos I’ve posted because I feel like it doesn’t represent me. But I’ve done a few things recently, one of my videos had a viral moment and I wasn’t really even doing anything. This guy, his name is DanielsWall, he did this post about me and all the songs that I’ve written for other people so then I did a reaction video to it where I am just watching his video, not even talking or doing anything. It’s my most watched video, it has like 9 million views and my followers, from that post alone, my followers went up from 100,000 followers to 350k and that’s only a few days later. It’s cool, though, I’m trying. I’m not against TikTok, I’m just trying to figure out a way to make it work for me and where I don’t feel like I’m forcing it.
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