Cassadee Pope will release her new EP, Summer, this coming Friday, and while her latest solo single, “Invincible,” won’t be on the EP, the song was pivotal in the direction of her music. Cassadee says, “That was definitely the start of a new movement for me as a person, as an artist. I feel like when I first came on the scene I was a little more timid. I wasn’t sure exactly where to go, how to act.”
Having had some moderate success in a rock band, prior to winning The Voice, Cassadee wanted so badly to prove to people that country music was her roots that she says, “I wasn’t paying attention to what I was really putting out there and I think what I put out there was a kind of watered-down version of myself.”
Cassadee is grateful for the success of her first album, but she says, “I think this is a completely different situation. I’m bearing it all, really, in my lyrics, and I’m showing the good, the bad, the ugly, I’m being very vulnerable, but also empowering and I think that’s where I am mentally and also totally through my music you can hear that.”
Cassadee wrote three of the songs on her EP and she says, “I feel like this body of work is so focused and there’s a message behind the songs and it’s all going in one direction. It’s vulnerable but it’s still very empowering.”
The EP’s title track, “Summer,” is Cassadee’s brand new single.
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Cassadee Pope – Invincible catalyst for new direction :57
“That was definitely the start of a new movement for me as a person, as an artist. I feel like when I first came on the scene I was a little more timid. I wasn’t sure exactly where to go, how to act. I’ve always loved country music, but I came into it people thinking that I’m this pop/rock girl that’s never done country and I just wanted so badly to prove everybody wrong and just show everybody that these are my roots, that I um…I don’t know, I wasn’t paying attention to what I was really putting out there and I think what I put out there was a kind of watered-down version of myself. I’m so, so grateful for the success of the first album. I mean, ‘Wasting All These Tear’ changed my life, but I think this is a completely different situation. I’m bearing it all, really, in my lyrics, and I’m showing the good, the bad, the ugly, I’m being very vulnerable, but also empowering and I think that’s where I am mentally and also totally through my music you can hear that.”
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Cassadee Pope – new EP :30
“Yeah, it feels amazing, especially giving them three of the four songs that I wrote. It’s showing them where I am in my life mentally. I feel like this body of work is so focused and there’s a message behind the songs and it’s all going in one direction. It’s vulnerable but it’s still very empowering. And I got to do it with Cory Crowder who has that similar background to me, a little bit more pop, a little bit more country and rock all together. So when we went into the studio, it was just easy and natural.”
CASSADEE POPE – THE FACTS
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://www.cassadeepope.com/home
FACEBOOK PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/CassadeePopeMusic/
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/CassadeePope
INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/cassadeepopemusic/?hl=en
BIRTH DATE: August 28, 1989 (She’s 26)
HOMETOWN: West Palm Beach, Florida
WINNER OF THE THIRD SEASON OF NBC’S THE VOICE
- SINGLE “Think of You” with Chris Young
- CURRENT SOLO SINGLE: “I Am Invincible” – See the video
- DEBUT ALBUM: Frame By Frame (released in 2013) – She’s currently working on a new album.
THE STUDIO ALBUMS
Frame By Frame – October 2013
Cassadee Pope EP – May 2012
- GRAND OLE OPRY: July 16, 2013 – Made her Opry debut.
CASSADEE POPE’S AWARDS
2014 – CMT Music Awards – CMT’s Breakthrough Video of the Year for “Wasting All These Tears.”