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I was very protective of my voice for a long time. It’s quite low and sultry in “Boyfriend” and “Breakfast,” but in 2019 you starred in the musical “The Light in the Piazza,” where your role called for airy and sweet. Talk about the development of your voice. I love to highlight the discrepancies between the two. “Boyfriend” being such a misleading title helps me acknowledge where I was and who I am now. Your “Boyfriend” is toying with the gendered connotations of such a familiar word.īut it’s not like, “I tricked you, and now here I am!” It’s almost like I’m roasting myself in so much of the stuff I create. Arriving at the person I am now, I’m relaxing into the freedom to poke fun at who people think I am. It’s just that the space I was in would never have allowed me to express those dimensions. People are like, “But you were blond and you were dating men and you were on the Disney Channel.” Yes, but there were always so many more dimensions. And that is such a far cry from who I am. There was actually a point when my label was asking me to consider naming it “Gentleman” because there were so many other songs called “Boyfriend.” But I really wanted to call it “Boyfriend” because I’m very aware - painfully aware - of the sort of concoction of who I am in the public eye.

Gen Z pop, Latin beats from around the globe, Nashville’s finest, sinewy hip-hop and R&B: Musically speaking, at least, 2022 has been a blast so far.īefore your “Boyfriend,” Justin Bieber released a song with the same title. Music Playlist: The 40 best songs of 2022 so far I don’t really run into people very often. More often than not my life is therapy, journaling, songwriting, poetry. Also - and I cannot stress this enough - my life has always been personal stuff first and career stuff, like, fourth. I’m imagining they were all on the lot together. I think the Miley/Selena/Demi trifecta, they met because they were all there at the same time. Well, I was doing the twins show where it was just me and me, and then I was doing “Descendants” in Canada for three months. You know what’s crazy? I’ve only met Selena one time, and I’ve never met anybody else. So you’re not on a group chat with a bunch of other recovering Disney kids? I mean, this whole narrative that I was on Disney and then found my way out with a pop song, it was a total f- accident. So I don’t really look to anybody else for a roadmap. I felt like I was wearing a rubber mask or something. I was always the strange outlier who doesn’t belong and who will never fit in. I never had that moment where I was like, “I am a Disney girl.” I never looked at Miley or Demi or Selena or Zendaya or Bella or anybody - Hilary Duff or anybody that came before me - I never looked at them and thought, you and me - same. Anyone whose journey you particularly admire?

Disney stars now how to#

Plenty of women have preceded you in figuring out how to define themselves outside the Disney machine.