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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 1 december 2018
The growing pains of being Alessia Cara

By MESFIN FEKADU we can grow from," she
Associated Press said.
NEW YORK (AP) — One day The Canadian artist start-
Alessia Cara got a request ed writing most of the al-
from a friend: Write a song bum before she won the
about my breakup. Grammy, so she said that
"He was like, 'Listen, I'm not negativity didn't affect her
a songwriter, I'm not good music.
at writing. Could you may- "I was like, 'Thank God, be-
be one day ... write a song cause I don't know how I
about somebody falling would have reacted oth-
out of love with you?'" erwise.' At the same time,
The concept had been in I think the backlash about
the back of Cara's mind, the Grammy just made
and when she was in a stu- me want to prove people
dio without a topic to write wrong a bit more," she
about it, she took a stab at said. "I want to prove to
her friend's wish. people and to myself that
Ten minutes later, she I deserve to be here."
birthed "Out of Love," an Warren "Oak" Felder, who
airy, slow and personally produced both of Cara's
deep song. She called the albums, said he was deep-
making of it "one of those In this Nov. 19, 2018 photo, singer Alessia Cara poses for a portrait in New York. Cara, who won ly impressed by the way
weird cosmic things that the best new artist Grammy Award this year, releases her sophomore album, “The Pains of she tackled her follow-up
just happened." Growing,” on Friday, Nov. 30. album.
"I played it for my friend Associated Press "I think the first album was
and he got very emotion- enough to figure yourself status. of Growing," out on Friday. such a process of, 'Well,
al and he was like, 'Thank out at that age, but then to With all the success comes The album is all about com- these people want me
you!' And he actually got figure yourself out in front of criticism, and Cara got her ing out on top after dealing to do this' and 'the label
back together with the girl many people with so many fair share of it. When she with hard times. wants me to do that' and
after that song. It's a magic eyes on you and ears on won the best new artist "The second I wrote 'Grow- 'this writer wants me to do
song." you is very challenging," the Grammy earlier this year, ing Pains,'" she said of the this' and 'this is the sound
Cara said it was the first 22-year-old said. "That was some felt she didn't de- album's opening track, "I that they want me to do,'
song she's written from causing a lot of strange dis- serve to win over acts like knew what the premise of and here's me trying to in-
someone else's perspec- sonance within myself. It SZA and Khalid. And even the entire album was go- corporate myself into all
tive. But she said it was easy was making me just really this week, the singer took ing to be. I think that's be- of this," he said. "And this
to pull from her own experi- confused." a short break from social cause, honestly, I was go- album was just purely her.
ences — and pain — to re- Cara burst on the music media after she posted the ing through a lot of different Like, 'This is what I wanted
late to the song. scene in 2015 with the Top nasty comments she has re- feelings and experiencing it to sound like. This is what
You'll be able to hear about 5 hit, "Here." She went on ceived from people online, many different feelings, a I want to talk about it.' She
her pain — or "pains" — on to launch more Top 10 suc- including words like "ugly," lot of which had to do with literally wrote every song
her new album, from her cesses with "Scars to Your ''fat" and others we won't some sort of pain. It sounds on the album 100 percent
own breakup to learning Beautiful," ''Stay" with Zedd print here. very dark but it's the truth." on her own.
how to be happy alone to and "1-800-273-8255" along- But she rose above the "(It) was my way of finding "Going from one form to
— simply put — growing up. side Logic and Khalid. And hate and returned to so- silver lining ... and remind- the other, it's like watching
"I was 18 when I first started her debut album, "Know- cial media to celebrate ing myself that every type someone go Super Saiyan,"
in the industry — it's hard It-All," achieved platinum the release of "The Pains of pain is something that he added.
Cara's new album expands
her sound even more than
Viola Davis to star as Shirley Chisholm in Amazon project her debut. You can't put
her music in a box if you
Associated Press tried: She goes from posi-
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscar-winning actress Viola Davis tive pop to acoustic singer-
is gearing up to play groundbreaking politician Shirley songwriter to R&B, some-
Chisholm in a film for Amazon Studios. times a couple of those
The company said Thursday that Davis has signed on to sounds in a single song.
star in and produce the project about Chisholm, who She takes on an old-
was the first black woman ever elected to the United school, doo-wop style on
States Congress and the first woman to seek the Demo- "Comfortable;" she ques-
cratic Party's presidential nomination. tions where we are in the
She represented New York's 12th District in the House of world on "7 Days;" and she
Representatives from 1969 to 1983, and sought the presi- makes a number of pop
dential nomination in 1972. Chisholm died in 2005 at age culture references on the
80. album, namedropping the
Maggie Betts will direct Davis in "The Fighting Shirley Ch- iconic series "Friends" on
isholm" off of a screenplay from "Silicon Valley" writer "Wherever I Live," and on
Adam Countee. "Nintendo Game," she ref-
The Hollywood trade website Deadline first reported the This combination photo shows actress Viola Davis, during the erences Zelda and sings:
news.q Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto on Sept. 9, 2018, "And so we treat love like
left, and Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, D-N.Y., the first it's a Nintendo game, but
black woman elected to Congress, in 1971. nobody wins."q
Associated Press