Megan Thee Stallion wants some thoughts from fans as she works on her upcoming album. In an Instagram Live Wednesday, she asked for opinions on how long the record should be and what kinds of songs should be included, while giving some insight on what she has in the vault so far.
“How many songs do y’all want to hear on this album? In my mind, I was thinking 14,” she said. “I keep recording songs that’s so good. I’ll be in one mood one week, and I’ll be in another mood the next week. I was like, ‘Damn, I need to rap my a** off.’ So, the first 20 songs I had, I’m just straight rapping. And then I started being in a better mood, so it’s like feel-good songs, and then I got in a ratchet mood ‘cuz you know it’s about to be summertime!”
“Twenty? Fifteen? ‘Twelve is not enough?’ OK, but that’s my ears. I got things to say, so I was thinking maybe I could drop an A-side and a B-side,” Meg continued. “To me, it’s giving 14. Twenty? Y’all think 20? ‘Cause I got 20 songs to give, that’s the thing.”
The rapper also contemplated whether she should include “pop-that-a** music,” given the criticism she says she faced for releasing that kind of music in the past.
“I just remember how y’all used to really whack me for making pop-that-a** music,” she expressed. “I really wanted to get on y’all’s a**** and show y’all how bad I can rap, so I really haven’t been in touch with my roots. I’m tryna see if y’all wanna pop that a**.”
Until those decisions are made, fans can hear Meg on GloRilla‘s new single, dropping Friday.
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SisQó was unmasked on Wednesday’s episode of The Masked Singer after weeks of performing in a lizard costume. The experience, he tells People, showed him ways he could market himself without relying on his hit song “Thong Song.” He came to this realization earlier in the competition after judges Rita Ora and Robin Thicke guessed that he could be the lizard.
“With Rita and Robin being musicians, I think once I hit a note, they was like, ‘I know who that is,’” the singer says. “I learned how to market me without talking about the ‘Thong Song.’ You couldn’t even see me — they had all of these clues with stuff I had even forgotten.”
One of the songs SisQó performed on The Masked Singer was Evanescence‘s “Bring Me to Life,” a song he says he’s always loved, despite it being outside the R&B genre.
“I was just elated that I had an opportunity to kind of show people Sisqo’s range, you know? Some people think I’m a rapper, and I can’t rap to save my life,” he says to People. “So it was a great experience being able to sing, just have people literally see me in another light.”
Overall, he’s hoping his time on the show will opens fans’ minds as he embarks on a new chapter of his musical career with his upcoming album, Exodus.
“I think people hearing me sing different types of music, maybe they’ll be a little bit more open to hearing what I got to do now,” SisQó says.
As previously reported, Exodus will feature Mya and Wild ‘n Out star Jack Thriller, as well as “some throwback-made-modern surprises.”
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