Cynthia Erivo:
Well, most of it was made in the pandemic, which meant that I was apart from my producer, and though I worked with a lot of producers and a lot of writers, it was never — and they were all so lovely, and I had such a great time with each one of them — but they had different sounds, different things that they brought to it, and it didn’t feel like it was one uniform story. And it never quite felt like it was mine. This time, I felt like I could really sort of hone in on what it is that I wanted with one person, so that we could really create a sound that felt uniform to the whole thing, that felt like it was mine. I could create something that belonged to me. Yeah, that’s why it felt very, very different.
And I know that you’ve talked in past interviews about, you know, maybe with the first album, you weren’t necessarily with the team that you’re with now, you weren’t necessarily with the right people.
