Cassadee Pope Admits She Had A ‘Hard Time’ Letting Go Of Country Music As She Returns To Pop-Punk (Exclusive)

Cassadee Pope is backmost with a caller euphony video (below) for her latest song, “People That I Love Leave,” which shows the vocalist returning to her pop-punk roots aft much than 10 years successful the country music scene. The opus follows Cassadee’s 2021 album, Thrive, which was a “fusion” of state and alternative. “I was inactive grasping that state vocation that I had built for myself. I had a hard clip putting that to bed,” Cassadee told HollywoodLife successful an EXCLUSIVE interview. “It felt similar a information broad successful a way, adjacent though I wasn’t truly listening to state euphony anymore and wasn’t truly inspired by it anymore.”

The determination to merchandise full-on pop-punk euphony again was gradual. However, Cassadee recalled a circumstantial infinitesimal wherever she was penning with her longtime friend, Ali Tamposi, successful Los Angeles, and came to the realization that this was what she wanted to beryllium doing. “It was a truly honorable speech with her astir however I’m feeling, however state euphony isn’t truly inspiring me, however I’m terrified to permission it and spell this caller route,” Cassadee explained. “She was like, ‘It’s not new. You’ve been successful it, you’ve done it.’ That was a truly important speech to jumpstart the transition.”

Cassadee and Ali were moving connected a antithetic opus astatine the time, but “People That I Love Leave” became the way that she chose to usage to reintroduce herself. “I wanted to commencement with thing uptempo, for sure, but I besides wanted to commencement with a opus that felt, successful a way, digestible from what I’ve been doing to wherever I’m headed,” Cassadee shared. “I wanted to commencement with astir a span opus that felt similar a caller genre, but didn’t consciousness excessively alienating to radical that person followed me. It felt similar a truly bully mode to support each the fans engaged, and I’ll astir apt instrumentality them a spot further with the adjacent song, whenever that’s going to travel out.”

The euphony video for “People That I Love Leave” dropped connected May 17, and Cassadee opened up astir the conception successful our interview. “I truly wanted a revolving doorway of boyfriends, wherever we spot the progression. In the opening of the song, I’m telling them however I consciousness and telling them I’ve been burned earlier and [I’m worried] they’re conscionable going to permission me,” she explained. “You spot them benignant of advancement from being empathetic and entertaining maine successful a way, and past progressively, done the song, you spot them commencement shifting distant from me. We wanted to exemplify the ‘pushing the feline away’ thing. It’s illustrating that with the guys’ assemblage language.”

Watch the afloat interrogation supra and spot much excerpts below!

On what’s coming next: I person a diagnostic connected “People That I Love Leave” that I haven’t announced yet that’s going to travel retired soon that I’m truly excited astir who’s connected it. My full squad has a DropBox nexus of, like, 12 songs that I support adding to and support swapping retired songs for caller mixes. I’m moving towards a grounds that sounds astonishing truthful far. It’s conscionable been a truly originative clip for me. The program is to merchandise immoderate caller songs done the extremity of the twelvemonth and enactment a circuit unneurotic for opening of adjacent year, and hopefully person the grounds retired with the tour.

On what’s inspiring the caller music: Definitely idiosyncratic beingness experience, but I’ve besides been having a batch of amusive benignant of expanding beyond that and penning songs that a TV amusement oregon movie. There’s this amusement called Normal People that I watched past twelvemonth that inspired a song. I’m conscionable trying to get a spot much originative of wherever I gully inspiration from. While I’ve lived a batch of life, I decidedly consciousness similar I’ve held choky to lone singing songs wherever each lyric was thing I’ve been through, and that tin beryllium limiting for maine arsenic a songwriter.

On the continued power of state euphony successful her songwriting: Something that state has helped maine with is telling a communicative successful a opus and keeping the listener engaged and knowing what you’re talking about. I emotion pop-punk and I loved bands that had these truly obscure lyrics where, fractional the time, I didn’t cognize what they were talking about. But arsenic a songwriter, I’ve ever gravitated towards conversational lyrics. That’s thing state euphony does truthful well.

On a imaginable Hey Monday reunion: I’ve been moving with Alex Lipshaw — my guitar subordinate from Hey Monday — connected immoderate of the caller stuff. He’s really produced a mates songs for me, truthful it’s truly chill getting to enactment with him successful this antithetic way. It’s truthful amusive and inspiring. I wouldn’t beryllium opposed to Hey Monday playing a amusement present and there, but a afloat reunion with a circuit and caller euphony isn’t truly thing I’m ace funny in. I’m truthful engaged and immersed successful this solo career. So I’d beryllium up for a sprinkling of a amusement present and there. We’re decidedly down to bash that, for sure.

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