Callista Clark Reveals How Making ‘Honest’ Debut Album ‘About Validating Emotions’ Helped Her ‘Grow’ (Exclusive)

Callista Clark is simply a sanction you should get utilized to hearing. The 19-year-old up and coming vocalist has been patiently waiting her crook to fto the satellite perceive to the euphony she’s been moving connected done the years. Her 10-track debut album, Real To Me: The Way I Feel, dropped connected October 14 and has been met with rave reviews arsenic she soon aft embarked connected Brett Young’s European circuit and released a Christmas song. “I wanted to merchandise thing that was truly honorable to myself, and successful this age, and successful this epoch that I’m successful in life,” she told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY astir the album. “It’s each astir validating emotions, adjacent though I’m young and saying, you tin inactive consciousness heartbreak, you tin inactive consciousness stress, you tin inactive consciousness everything, adjacent though you’re young.”

Callista Clark’s debut album. (Big Machine Records)

Callista explained that making the medium “helped [her] turn and fig retired who [she] wanted to beryllium arsenic a person.” She admitted it was hard to equilibrium maturation “as an creator and arsenic a idiosyncratic astatine the aforesaid time,” but the grounds helped her get there. “Trying to fig retired your ain aforesaid assurance and your ain bushed successful life, and past balancing that with ‘Who bash I privation to beryllium arsenic an artist?’ ‘What bash I person to say?’ ‘What bash I privation to dependable like?’” The “Sad” vocalist said.

The Georgia-native revealed she wrote astir of her euphony for Real To Me: The Way I Feel “a fewer years ago,” but the full-length album’s merchandise was enactment connected intermission owed to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, Callista spent the past 2 years investigating retired her songs connected a unrecorded assemblage and moving connected immoderate caller ones to adhd to the record, which was an hold of her EP. “I was trying to beryllium precise strategic, and besides precise patient,” she told HL, and recalled playing “anywhere radical would fto [her]” during the pandemic. 

Callista Clark. (Chelsea Thompson)

The vocalist recovered lyrical and sonic inspiration successful state euphony from the ‘80s and ‘90s, including hits from The Chicks, The Judds, Travis Tritt, Tim McGraw and Garth Brooks. At the aforesaid time, she pulled immoderate notation from Maren Morris and her “gritty,” “honest” work. “For the astir part, it was each throwbacks,” she said. “A immense premix of things, and that’s ever what I love. I consciousness similar you tin perceive them successful the album.” 

Callista went connected to driblet her mentation of the classical Christmas song, ‘Please Come Home For Christmas,’ which highlighted her emotion for Classic Rock. “I grew up listening to Classic Rock which is astir apt wherefore ‘Please Come Home For Christmas’ has ever been my favorite—it gives maine that feeling of listening to classics connected vinyl,” she said of the release. 

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