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" I didn't make music until I was about 18. I'd been playing my whole life, but I wasn't putting it out because I didn't feel like people would take it seriously. I thought people would be like, 'It's just like sad girl music - it's like Taylor Swift.' "

Soccer Mommy

Life

Girl

Music

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" It's not that I can't collaborate. It's just that I don't know how to say no to people. If someone's like, 'Let's write a song together,' it's like, 'You'll write the song, and I'm gonna okay everything.' It's very hard to think that their ideas work with what I'm trying to do. "

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Soccer Mommy

Artists

Really

" I've played music since I was six, and I always wrote songs just for myself. I did it for fun, posting songs on Tumblr, Bandcamp, and Soundcloud. I didn't think anyone would notice. "

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Time

Feel

" When I signed my first record deal, I brought it over to my lawyer to look over. "

" I went through a lot of maturing in a year or two. I left all my best friends, and I didn't really want to make new friends, so I spent a lot of time inside just being depressed. "

" You're always just going to be who you are. "

" I kind of tend to write a lot of songs, so it's never too hard for me to finish an album; it's more about just getting enough songs that I really love. "

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Finish

Kind

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Soccer Mommy

Writer

Influence

" I definitely learned stuff like advancing a show, what percentage I should be paid, what's going be in a contract I'm going sign. "

" 'Your Dog' I tried to re-record at my house, like, four times after the studio recordings were done. "

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Dog

House

" Being a guitarist was scary, honestly, as a girl in Nashville. It just felt like no one was gonna ask me to be in a band and play guitar, like I never was gonna get asked to do that. "

" I think a lot of women could be making great music but still don't feel like they're capable - in fact, I know that's the case for a lot of young girls who try to do music. "

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" It's hard for me to see myself as meaningful, but people seem to like my music, so who knows. Maybe my music is empowering some more young women to pick up songwriting/playing. "

" I don't talk with people about how I am feeling - I just usually write a song about it. "

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" I have to not let anything get to me and not get an ego about it and just do what I want to do, do things because I like them, and make the music that I like unapologetically. "