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" A lot of people say 'Boo'd Up' reminds them of '90s R&B. It has that feeling, which is why I think people take to the song so much. "
Ella Mai
Why
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" There's a lot of young females doing R&B in England who are extremely talented and deserve more light on their stories. "
Ella Mai
Light
Doing
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" As much as heartbreak music might be therapeutic, we all want love and long for that feeling. So if a song can give you that feeling, even without being in love, that's amazing. "
Ella Mai
You
Amazing
Song
" Mustard saw my Instagram probably, like, August of 2015. He just reached out to me by DM on Instagram. "
Ella Mai
Like
Out
Me
" I feel like everyone has been in a bitter situation, regardless whether it's cheating or just not being over someone who is over you - you compare yourself to the next. "
Ella Mai
Cheating
Yourself
You
" I was a huge Lauryn Hill fan; that was all my mom would listen to in the car. "
Ella Mai
Car
Mom
Would
" Everyone in L.A. loves sushi, and I don't understand it at all. "
Ella Mai
Sushi
Understand
Everyone
" L.A. is so slow. Everyone is so chill, and the weather, of course, makes everything better, but it's just a different vibe. "
Ella Mai
Weather
Everyone
Slow
" It's deeper than the music when it comes to me and Mustard. He's like a big brother, and I'm so thankful to have a mentor like him to advise me. Even though he gives me a lot of creative control, I always go to him like, 'Do you like this?' It's so cool that it's always a collaborative effort. He never makes me feel pressured or anything. "
Ella Mai
Thankful
Effort
Music
" A lot of my music is about love. And that, of course, is super relatable. "
Ella Mai
Lot
Love
About
" I think it's harder for R&B to break in England because the radio and labels don't really know what to do with R&B music. "
Ella Mai
Music
Know
Radio
" 'Naked' embodies what everyone, at the end of the day, really wants and how they should feel. "
Ella Mai
End
Day
End Of The Day
" It's okay to wake up and look however you look. You are beautiful regardless. "
Ella Mai
Okay
Beautiful
You
" I definitely believe that there are songs that, as artists, we don't know the full potential. "
Ella Mai
Know
Songs
Potential
" I'm big on self-confidence. "
Ella Mai
Big
Self-Confidence
" I always felt like I could go to my mom and speak to her about anything. We have a great relationship. "
Ella Mai
Great
Relationship
Speak
" I played soccer for nine years, so I took that route instead of singing. I played on the outside team as well as in school, so I was always playing soccer. It wasn't until I moved back to London that I really, like, started investing in music again and realized, OK, yeah, this is definitely what I want to do. "
Ella Mai
Team
Music
School
" I love to color. "
Ella Mai
Love
Color
I Love
" I like to leave things open to interpretation. But I also like to make a point. There's two meanings behind each EP title. With 'Time,' that was 'time to move on': you know, you've been in a bad situation; this is enough. But it was also time, in my life, for introducing myself, my first project I was putting out with Mustard. A new exciting time. "
Ella Mai
Life
Time
Myself
" I write in a diary every night to collect my thoughts. It's very therapeutic to songwrite, because it's the same thing. "
Ella Mai
Same
Night
Diary
" To find out my song made the top 10 was honestly a dream come true. I think it's something that I've dreamed about, and anyone dreams about, their whole life. "
Ella Mai
True
Dreams
Dream
" Not everybody gets to wake up and do what they love. "
Ella Mai
Wake
Wake Up
Gets
" It's been cool to have my name mentioned when people say R&B is on the comeback and I'm the leading person. If you had told me at 16 that I would be that person - you're lying. "
Ella Mai
Me
You
Name
" There's loads of eyes and expectations. People are almost waiting for you to make a mistake so they can say, 'Oh, she's a one-hit wonder!' "
Ella Mai
Waiting
Eyes
You
" When you're in love, your heart and your mind are in sync, and everything just feels right. It's a special feeling. "
Ella Mai
Feeling
Love
Mind
" Mustard believes in me so much. It's good to have a mentor that's been through it. Even though he's a producer, he's been a new artist. "
Ella Mai
Through
Artist
Good
" When I went into high school, I don't know why - because I've been performing since I was little - but I think it was just the pressure of being somewhere so different, and I already stood out because I had an accent, and everyone always wanted you to talk, that I kind of shied away from singing a bit. "
Ella Mai
You
Think
Singing
" I always say that when you have friends that are girls, you tell each other everything. "
Ella Mai
Always
Friends
You
" I wanted to show people that I don't just make love songs that are about purely being in love. "
Ella Mai
Being In Love
Show
Love
" With social media especially, there's a lot of image issues that everyone faces because there's so much pressure on us. "
Ella Mai
Social Media
Pressure
Media
" A lot of the times, if relationships go badly, you concentrate on the negative. But in those situations, there is always a positive outcome that you can learn from. So, I like to concentrate on the lesson and how I can learn from this. I concentrate on me rather than concentrating on the actual situation. "
Ella Mai
Negative
Me
Positive