Over the previous few years, you’ve got been releasing singles like “Uncooked” and “Down.” What has this chapter of your music profession taught you about your self as an artist?
Victoria: This unbiased period has taught me that I am able to doing a lot greater than I ever thought. If you’re unbiased, there are a whole lot of professionals — clearly, there’s inventive freedom — nevertheless it’s additionally actually tough. It is onerous to not have that large infrastructure, funding, and sources behind you.
After I was signed to a label a few years in the past, so many choices had been made for me that I did not even find out about. Now, being unbiased, I am concerned in each single choice and each side of the inventive course of.
I feel I’ve proven myself that I am resilient and that I can actually deal with all of it. It is helped me be taught to belief myself and to work tougher than I knew I might.