Tiara Thomas
So, I watched the music video for “One Night,” which was inspired by the “Set It Off” film, were you the set it off kind of girl?
Obviously I’m not going to go rob a bank, but it’s fun to be somebody that you’re not. When I grew up, ‘Set It Off’ was my favorite movie; I loved the characters and I loved the storyline. I didn’t grow up with the life like any of those characters, but for some reason I really connected with that movie, so for the music video, I wanted to become that.
Being that you were on the hit single “Bad,” do you feel pressured at all to live up to that song or the popularity that it brought you?
“Bad” was a really special song, it was really organic, and people did love that song a lot, so now you want to go in the studio and re-create that energy again, but this time you’re thinking about it. When I wrote “Bad,” I wasn’t thinking about it, I just freestyled it. I tried to maintain that mindset on this album; just be the same person. Of course I get nervous, a lot of people do know me from “Bad,” but I think if you loved “bad,” you will love this album.
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