Through my experiences, people can find themselves and are able to relate and enjoy the music for different situations in their life. It’s always been that way, that’s how I write songs, and it’s always been this way. It’s not that I want to necessarily do it, it’s that I have to. Yeah…ĭo you worry that opens your personal life up to scrutiny, given that some exes might be well-known? Every single song on this album is real talk. Do you write songs with specific individuals in mind?Įvery single one. You have a song on your album, “X2CU,” about an ex-girlfriend. I didn’t want to call it 4, because that didn’t tell enough of what the meaning was to me. This is that time in my life, it’s a new beginning, the sense of completion of one chapter and the beginning of another. The number four is a sense of completion, almost. In music, four is the number that every measure is-four by four, four beats to every measure.

I could go down the list, it being so relevant in music. Why does it keep coming up in album titles? Beyoncé and One Direction both have albums named 4 or Four.

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