![]() I still haven’t figured everything out, but stepping more into myself has been a theme. I’m just better at knowing what I want and saying no, being more sure of myself, I guess. I’ve heard it said a bunch of times, “Your thirties are where you really figure out who you are.” I definitely think that has happened. Is this the most authentically yourself you’ve ever felt? When I think of Aaliyah, Missy Elliott, and TLC, and all these females in that R&B space, I remember their confidence being what stood out to me - how they carried themselves. I think that’s where the Y2K vibe came in because women back then just oozed confidence. I’ve always kind of been known as this type of girl, but people have never seen sides of me that are very authentic to me and how I grew up. And I was like, This feels really good to step into these different versions of myself that have been a part of me for so long, but I haven’t really shown yet. I wanted to blast my own music in my car, just having the time of my life, not any particular lyrical theme.īut as we started writing, I realized that this theme of confidence kept coming up. I knew I wanted that feel, and I knew I just wanted big songs that you could sing along to in your car. I literally walked in, I was like, “I’m ready to step back into this pop space,” or pop/R&B. The only thing that I really wanted was big songs. I would say I came in with a pretty open mind. But I came in hoping he would understand all the things that I love and what I want to bring to the table, which he totally did, and he brought out even more of myself. I think this whole world really started with Jon and I, to be honest, because I came into the studio being a huge fan of Jon already. What was he able to help you produce sonically that perfectly complemented the visual vibe you were going for? ![]() So I definitely agree with the fantasizing part, and I think that’s why it’s so fun now as an adult to kind of pull from that era and just have fun with it because it’s all the things that I loved growing up.Ī post shared by Beautiful Mind imagine living in Jon Bellion’s basement while working on Tori helped dismantle any barriers to self-expression because you were just rolling out of bed into the studio. I’m more looking up to it and watching TRL all the time being like, Ugh, I want to be in a music video one day. There were people in pop culture and what was cool, the different outfits and the fashion and the music, where I was still this nerdy little kid. ![]() I was growing up in the 2000s and very aware of things. There is something about our generation and being a nineties kid - I mean, a nineties baby, I should say. To start, I have a theory to run by you: Our age group has a unique relationship with Y2K because, technically, we were alive and lived through it, but we weren’t old enough to really know what was going on, so we can romanticize it and have an even stronger sense of nostalgia for it. “Every day, I’ll get dressed, and I look at her, and I’m like, ‘I feel like she’d be proud.'”īelow, Kelly explained the deeper meaning behind her Y2K aesthetic. “I have a childhood picture of myself in my closet,” Kelly told Uproxx days before staging her The Take Control Tour and dropping the deluxe version of Tori, which is due out on September 15. Ecstatic fans saw a “new” Kelly, while Kelly saw the “nerdy” 2000s kid who desperately wanted to express herself this way but needed time to develop the necessary confidence. The video oozes Y2K, from the Juicy Couture Sidekick she adored as a preteen and performance shots saluting Aaliyah, Destiny’s Child, Missy Elliott, and TLC. Kelly unveiled a return to her natural brunette hair and R&B roots with “ Missin U” in March. Everything Tori Kelly did and subsequently learned about herself in the last 10 years of her Grammy-winning career led to Tori, her seven-song EP released on July 28.
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