- I'm pretty sure I have like around 50 tattoos
which is insane to even think about.
Hi, I'm Nessa Barrett
and today I'm going to let Elle ask me anything.
But before we get started,
please make sure to go check out my debut album,
Young Forever, it's out now.
Yeah.
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Oh my God,
I have so many favorite memories while recording this album
just because me and Evan Blair, my producer,
we are just so funny.
So when it's just us alone in the studio,
it gets really crazy and weird
and we goof off a lot.
So I honestly don't know how we get anything done
but I think I was like recording a song and I like burped
in one of the takes.
And he just like, he played back the burp like so many times
and then like remixed it.
And we had like a dubstep, like burp like remix
that we just created instead of finishing the song
that we did.
Thank God we finished the album.
But being in the studio is so fun,
especially when you're so close to who you're working with.
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I feel like I feel the most powerful when I 100% am writing
or even when I get new songs back.
That I'm very excited about and love.
And also when I just feel confident when I get ready
and I feel like I look good and I feel good,
I feel like that's when I feel the most powerful.
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One passion of mine outside of singing, I love painting
and drawing.
That's been a really big thing recently
that I've gotten back into.
I've always been like very like artistic
in like a bunch of ways.
I also love writing movies and books.
So I hope one day I could like share that with the world.
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I was in a drama and like a choir growing up.
I tried out for the talent show by singing Sweater Weather
in middle school but they denied me.
I don't know if it was because of my singing abilities
or because the song was inappropriate for middle school.
And I also remember for choir, I did a solo,
it was like the Christmas concert
and I wanted to sing this one song so bad,
but my teacher would not let me.
The teacher like hated me basically.
She said that like I didn't have the singing abilities
because of my nose, the nose that I had.
I don't know if that makes any sense if I'm being honest
but... So she didn't get me the solo that I wanted
or the song that I wanted for the Christmas concert.
And I ended up actually like doing it
in front front of everyone.
I did good I think,
but in rehearsals before,
sometimes I struggle with stuttering
and it causes me to kind of like run over my words
that almost creates a lisp.
I just remember like messing up bad
and everyone just started laughing at me
and I ran and I cried, so...
Yeah.
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I honestly had many.
I don't know if my first one was either Cole Sprouse
or Justin Bieber but it was one of those.
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Oh my God, my TikTok for you page is something
that I don't wish upon anyone.
It honestly terrifies me. I don't know why I just,
you know, keep getting...
Like received, like so many odd
and uncomfortable videos on there
but I do and I do watch them so that's my fault.
But now since my album came out,
I am getting a lot of people ranking the songs on my album
and sometimes I don't know how to feel about that
because I'm like, oh why is this in like number 13?
It's like my favorite but... And you know what?
It's not my choice, it's not my ranking so...
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So I do have a song called Tired of California.
It's the first track off my album.
I ran away from home basically when I was 17
ever since I kind of came to LA,
this is like kind of the place where I've,
you know, started in my career and made something for myself
and I'm so blessed and honored for it.
But I guess that there is a part
of me that still kind of felt trapped.
You know, I talk about wanting to go on vacation and stuff
but I feel like if I do I would feel guilty
for even leaving.
And I think it's just kind of like a twisted mindset
in a way.
And it's not that like I'm talking bad about it
or I hate on it. I love LA so much
but it's definitely a different lifestyle than most places
and I think that the overall vibe of that and the constant,
you know, work that I do, kind of, made me feel tired of it
a little bit.
But I don't really ever see myself not living in LA.
I love it there.
But I feel like everyone gets tired of everything
at some point.
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Ooh, the best industry advice I've ever received ever
was just to stay true to who I am
and to not be influenced by anything.
That's honestly brought me such a long way
especially in the entertainment business.
It's so easy to be influenced by everything
that's thrown at you.
You know, other artists, other people
and even society itself,
I feel like it's very easy to be influenced
and want to adapt and change to what people want
and like but I've just really learned
and realized that being who you are
and staying true to yourself makes things 10 times easier
and it gets you farther.
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I think my favorite look in any of my music videos
has to be the one that I wore on Die First.
Before I was like usually dressed like really dark
and like edgy and with this new album,
we went for something that was like kind of more mature
but also youthful and angelic.
I always think about my Die First outfit.
I'd wear that to my wedding if I ever get married.
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Mm, good question.
I honestly love Bella Hadid,
I think Bella has a great style.
I mean Billy too, I've never seen her wear anything bad.
I just kind of like pick pieces
from a bunch of different things
and kind of create my own vision.
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I'm a control freak. And so being able to co-direct
and be a part of any of the creative process
is something that's very important to me.
For all of my treatments I usually come up
with them myself and all of the videos
are kind of like my idea.
But for Dear God and Lucky Star to be on set
and you know, watch right after like each take
and figure out like the angles
and down to like even sometimes like the lighting.
And the action that's like in the video was really fun.
And that's just kind of something
that I haven't been able to fully branch out to yet
when it comes to, you know, what I do.
But honestly I'd really love to direct more of my videos.
I think it was so much fun even editing it too.
I just love being so hands on.
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One, hypnotherapy. Therapy is really big for me
and I recently started doing hypno
and it has helped so much.
I am taking meds. So, meds has to be there.
Keeping up with them is very important.
And also I feel like balancing my work
and my personal life is really big
in making sure that I have time for myself
and some self care days.
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I'm pretty sure I have around 50 tattoos
which is insane to even think about.
My favorite one right now is Cooper
and even this like little heart key thing
I think is really cute.
This one's pretty new but yeah,
I just got 13 on my neck for my album
'cause there's 13 songs on there
and 13's my lucky number.
I love getting tattoos so I want to get one soon
but I just don't know where or what.
Thank you so much for hanging out with me in Elle today.
Make sure to check out my new album
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Bye.
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