A Letter to Me wasn’t Dixie D’Amelio’s solely title for her debut album. She additionally thought of titles like Fortunate, a standard phrase seen all through the album and Mannequin, a reference to D’Amelio’s thirteenth observe of the identical title about her struggles with perfection. “Each of these are very sarcastic titles, so should you simply noticed the title, you’d be like, ‘Oh my God, she’s so immodest,’ in order that’s why we didn’t go along with them,” D’Amelio tells StyleCaster at a launch live performance for A Letter to Me at Puma’s flagship retailer in New York Metropolis.
For D’Amelio, A Letter to Me finest encompasses the number of musical genres she included in her debut album, from pop-funk music “Not Sufficient” to ‘80s-inspired title observe, “A Letter to Me.” “I used to be within the studio eager to make as many songs as I may and see what number of totally different kinds I can do and what my voice can do. I ended up liking all of the various kinds of songs, and I put all of them into one album,” she says. “We went with the title A Letter to Me as a result of I simply felt like that’s what represented the album probably the most and that’s what I felt was probably the most highly effective music.”
The final music on the album is “Be Completely satisfied,” D’Amelio’s debut single in 2020 about her expertise with psychological sickness and despair. “Be Completely satisfied” is the one single from D’Amelio’s early days in music that she included in A Letter to Me. “I simply wished to indicate my development on the album. I’ve all the brand new songs, and to then finish with ‘Be Completely satisfied’ was to step again and be like, ‘That is the place I began.’ You’ll be able to hearken to it once more, and that’s the place I’m now,” she says. “Despite the fact that ‘Be Completely satisfied’ is my first music and I undoubtedly can hear the vocal struggles on that music as a result of I’ve grown quite a bit, I assumed it was vital to have on the album.”
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With greater than 34 million followers (and counting) on TikTok, D’Amelio understands that the majority of her followers come from social media. However relating to selling her personal music on TikTok, D’Amelio isn’t certain changing into a social media development is the route she desires to go. “I undoubtedly know I must, however on the identical time, I get slightly nervous about posting on TikTok. Not for any motive apart from I simply get in my very own approach,” she says. “I’m identical to, ‘Oh my God. That’s so odd. Individuals are making movies to the songs I make.’ If somebody listens to a music, you don’t see them listening to it. But when somebody makes a video to it, you see their entire response and what they do to it.”
For D’Amelio, music has been a studying course of, which is why she doesn’t look again on the errors she’s made within the trade with remorse. “I attempt not to think about the unhealthy occasions. Every thing has been such a studying course of,” she says. “Something adverse that may have occurred, it’s become one thing constructive now that the album is out.”
As for her dream collaboration, D’Amelio solely has one title, one other former social media star who’s grow to be a multi-platinum promoting artist. “I all the time say the identical particular person. Shawn Mendes,” she says. “I really like that he additionally began on social media and now he’s the place he’s at this time. I’m an enormous fan of him.”
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