Lauren Jauregui Talks Prelude, Experience In Fifth Harmony, Being An Independent Artist & More

hi i'm lauren i'm a singer-songwriter from miami florida and i like to write about my feelings and i'd like for you to listen to me do that and sing because that's what the [ __ ] i do i'm not a content creator i'm sorry by the way there's a link to praise i'm funny though so you can also hire me to do things hello beautiful human thanks for clicking or tapping on our conversation with lauren heregy we have a lot to discuss prelude is her latest bodywork listen to it there's a link in the description below uh there's so much to talk about like the most it's a lot of fun try to soak in the whole conversation if you can i promise you'll enjoy it there's no other commercials from me throughout the entire thing so yeah yeah please hit like on our video leave your honest feedback in the comment section below uh share our channel channels you care about and subscribe because that's the right thing to do and you know we all love good deals don't we like savings markdowns and lunch specials 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to say let's do this hello beautiful human uh it's lauren heregy here hey and dan's here too oh yes obviously hello hello dan hello uh it's been a while since we've hung out it has in a uh serious manner we have new music to discuss we have a whole i mean truly like a lot of life happens between this visit even your last visit and then the visit before that yeah truly evolutions you got three really it's the third one right it has to be i mean yeah because with fifth harmony you were here a bunch and then obviously to release your first solo project which was the one done under like records columbia records you were here expectations was the song the song and obviously we are somewhere new we are at in a whole new world and you have a globe right so a brand love it that was beautiful prelude that was oh thanks there must be a bunch of different ways that this is different than what's come before but for you as a creative why is it different than your expectations era well this is a project instead of a song so that would be the first probably major difference um i think that honestly i feel like my expectations era is still part of me too i feel like when i was with columbia i still dropped songs that i loved it was just four of them and this is one body work it is seven songs why is the intro necessary to the overall story you're telling it was i don't know i just kind of wanted to do an intro i think that i've always wanted to have an intro to the piece i'm very dramatic i'm a water double water sign so i have a lot of i love theatrics i love like expressing so i think sonically the intro is kind of like i wanted to get people into the energy of what they were going to be hearing and i feel like i did that so i did i use samples of the like crown chakra in the root chakra those are like the bowls that you hear in the beginning and then the strings kind of tell the story too it's like like a thesis like intro into colors is the thesis of the piece essentially because it's like you're able the strings take you into like oh it's like a beautiful pretty little situation and then it's like there's some darkness to it and then it gets kind of eerie and scary and then it just kind of like falls into colors so more live instruments on this body work than the four songs you put out previous yes i hear saxophones in there obviously strings trumpet trumpet is there no sex on any of the records it's all trumpet it's trumpet so that's a trumpet i hear on scattered and on don't want to say yes sir sick yeah sick um yeah great records thank you what do you mean by prelude well the definition is exactly what i mean i forgot it right now this very instant the exact definition but it's it's like the introduction into a sonic landscape so the first project to many oh yeah oh yeah i'm here to i'm here to make art this says an action or event serving as an introduction to something more important period okay cool so do you set goals before you start this body of work knowing that it's going to be something that kind of lays out a tone for what you're looking to achieve moving forward yes what are the goals well what are the goals um it's kind of a broad question i feel like it depends on what you're asking like sonically what are my goals what do you want to accomplish with it like when it's time to create you're technically your first body of work that is your own first solo body of work and you know that it's like when do you know you're gonna name it prelude only after it's done i played with a few different names it was after it was done actually i had a couple other names for it initially that i was playing with but prelude evidently was the one because exactly what you just said i think it was just perfect because to me this is like a part one of a full album just like the ep it's like the role and i didn't like to i don't want to call it like an ep evidently i've had to call it an ap because it just got confused but i was trying to roll with calling it like a project you know just a project it's like the introduction it's the part one of the full album that's coming later next year so you know that it sets a sonic tone for what you're looking to achieve but you only know that after it's done i kind of know it while it's happening too because there's more than the songs that i gave i knew i wanted to give it in pieces because i don't think that people would have gotten it if i gave it to them all at once because i think that it's so different from what people expected from me what do you think people expected that's a good question actually i don't know i feel like most of the time that i've been in this industry i've been confronted or after the fact i've been confronted by the pigeon hole of the assumption that i was i was in a manufactured pop girl band you know what i'm saying so like that's what people expect i'm gonna keep doing is like singing other people's songs and being in a pop element you know and to an extent i am you know in a pop element i still have a lot of elements of the pop world in what i do um but uh there's more i don't know there's a more soul element to what i do as well i think like in terms of like personably involved in what i'm doing my soul yeah it's 100 your own exactly yeah it's really the difference yeah and there's no other shape of people making up uh you know a song that you put out it's all 100 yours yeah and it's organic to you like how do you define like a pop star that's a good question there's an element of machina there's an element of machine to it okay in different aspects depending on what artist you're talking about i think you know because some some are really hyper involved in what they do and some aren't so i think it's just like but there's more of a like machine quality to it in the way that things move in the way that it operates behind the scenes and the way that the art comes to the people both i think as like as an entity how do you define an artist i think i think i know exactly what you're referring to and i think that i would say that an artist i think there's a lot of pop stars who are also artists you know um i think it's when you're connected to what you're giving it's not just you're selling something it's your soul an authenticity to it i get that period but we do recognize that pop stars pop stars and artists they do overlap absolutely 100 that's what i feel like there's an uncovering a lot of the time i think a lot of pop stars have artists within them but they're told they have to be things the machine element comes into it you know what i'm saying that's what i mean that's the difference in my brain there is an artistry to being a pop star though hundred percent even even the one that's all art it is art how frustrating was it being a pop star not being able to be the artist you wanted to be at all times yeah that was i mean that was because you're right about the overlap 100 i think i'm gonna first acknowledge that so then it's like i think the issue that i had to separate myself from the idealized pop star which is fully machined and has no soul in it which exists as well in certain realms you know that was something that i was trying to separate myself from you know what i'm saying in in my heart because i that was something that i always felt inside of me was like i have a lot more to offer than what i'm giving right now in this particular scenario and i think i have a lot more to offer than people expect from me and i think that in my brain people considering me a pop star means that they don't they believe i'm all machine and they don't see the soul behind it and so what i feel when i say something like that and that i want to be seen and perceived as an artist is that my soul's involved in what i'm doing even if there is a machine if and whenever there is a machine behind it but right now there isn't so but by the way i think like as you describe pop star like there's so many things that stand out but one of the big things that stand out to me is how the business is actually run on the back end because depending on how much say you have in your artistry again whether it's manufactured art that's given to you by a label or forced down your throat or your own stuff that you're able on your free will and ability to create on your own you know people can have the ability to create something but it be ignored for long periods of time because that's not what because it doesn't have the machine yeah it's not what they signed up for essentially right i feel like you know the way you just like yeah because being a pop star also takes a lot of work tremendous amount of a lot of work a tremendous amount of work whether you have a machine behind you or not or whether you have a machine dictating what you do or not but i do think that like a lot of people are forced to be a cog in the machine because nobody will listen to them and nobody takes their opinion seriously i think really what it is is that they're told that i don't think that it's true i think that in a lot of ways from what i've observed um money is what makes things move and if you don't if you have projects that are divested from they're not going to move and if you don't believe that someone expressing their authentic art is going to connect or make you money then you're not going to invest in it that's a simple business move well so i understand what you're saying from like on a record label side like what you should want to industrial site yeah you want to invest in organic things that happen you would expect them to invest in organic things right but i mean they do when they want to and when they see it but if they don't see it they won't yeah so it's like it's a toss-up because they'll tell you that you're amazing and you think you're amazing but really what they think is amazing is what they can make you know who you are so why did you decide being independent was the best decision for you right now that exact reason i expect you walked into meetings and people are like this is who you are yeah and how does the kind of music that you should be making um this song isn't a hit the song won't work this song isn't worth the money and so okay i think it is so i'm gonna do my own [ __ ] you don't have to invest in y'all invest in me i'll take my own money and put my money behind it because i believe in me baller yeah it's a new level of commitment yeah it is an investment in self and belief in self too because it is a gamble man it's a risk honestly at the end of the day but i know i know what i'm supposed to give this world in my heart so your arch i'm betting on it hopefully it works out man because if not [ __ ] call me up i could be a i'm cute too like you put me in your movies or something no but i think i'm a good singer i'm a good writer too no your music's actually incredible and i think you're actually growing it at the right pace i like the fact that you did you've been doing tinier venues yeah to really build anticipation you did two nights at the roxy uh you did i did a night at the roxy in a night at tear gram okay got it wow that's phenomenal many choices thank you you know you're creating a swell you're creating something organic and you do you feel like you're starting again yeah i do and it's so beautiful in a lot of ways are you starting again since expectations in those four songs yeah even i honestly feel like i've started again many times i feel like i've evolved into so many different people already in this lifetime and i think i'm gonna keep doing that as an artist i think that um yeah i've just it's it's wild i'm starting again because i feel like the pandemic was like a reset on a lot for me like 2020 in general that year it was a reset on a lot for me and it made me come to um it made me confront what success meant to me and how how success would look moving forward for me because a lot of things were just kind of like swiped out from under me and then a lot of things i was i was just confronted with a new a new moment in my life an independent moment in my life which is different from how i've been functioning for the nine years that i've been in this industry you know and i've learned a lot and this round getting to go out in these shows like you said they were intimate venues called an evening with lauren hiragi there were no openers or anything it was just me and my fans and i really wanted to connect with them and i really wanted to thank them intimately for seeing what we what we see now or what people will start to see soon always in me you know totally it's a shared vision so it's a new beginning but a a reaffirmation and like also propels me into a whole new version of self now but but i think you know one of the things that stood out to me and what you said is that you've redefined what success looks like and feels like so i i'm assuming it's taken a much different shape right like success is being at the roxy which is probably the smallest venue you've played in a very long time you know playing music for anybody you would listen correct yeah success is putting out that i believe in that i can stand behind and that i know i've put my heart and soul into and if there's an audience showing up i'm doing something right right so what was success for you while you were with fifth harmony i think that um i think a lot of people's definition of success including my own at the time had a lot more to do with attaining more and more and more and more and more and it's insatiable you never really get anywhere you're never really a legend until you die bro like at the end of the day like no one is going to give you your flowers until you die that's what i've learned i've seen it happen over and over and over and over again with all these kids dying of these overdoses and oh my god i loved you is i really cause you never supported them when they were alive ever actually and all of a sudden everybody loves this person and it's like and granted people can mean something to you in private that's also very real but those things will come when i focus on what i'm supposed to give the world on my own gift being expressed those things will come or they won't and i'll move on to another era of my life you know what i'm saying but like it's it's not about gaining more it's about connection for me i really want my music my music is healing for me expressing myself and getting to say what i'm feeling and write it out and get a concept out of my head and onto paper and into melodic form and playing with music and sounds like that's what makes me happy that's what makes me proud that's what helps me process life and so if through that process i'm able to connect with other individuals who feel less alone or who like see themselves in that music or see themselves in those words and they did they were singing them back to me bro word for word and that's what it's about for me that's success that's it that connection that ability to have somebody call to me and be like yo i love myself because of you like i learned how to love myself i now move with more purpose i now know what i want to do and now i now believe in me like that's all i give about as many people as i can make feel like that that's success to me truly like the impact that you can have on one person the impact of that you have on that one person is almost immeasurable because it goes on to change how they live their life yeah it is very special and when you talk about like wanting these flowers and you're not gonna get flowers until you die during your time at fifth harmony was zero want to just be legendary before y'all were legendary like what what yeah like how do i how do i take what you said about wanting these flowers this these every single artist gets into this initially thinking that they that the accolades are the definition yeah of i made it you know totally i think fifth got a lot of accolades i think we moved really really successfully in the world i don't i think i think for flowers i mean like people recognizing your talent i don't think that they you know that it happens but it doesn't happen as profoundly as it does once you're gone does that make sense 100 yeah and by the way throughout history you know the most famous painters of our time you know were creating art while they were here and nobody gave a [ __ ] until they were dead bengal yeah it's very cut off his ear history repeats itself you know what i mean yeah i'm not doing that though no i'm gonna keep my ear i like them people like yours going back to artistry like do you feel like people saw you as an artist while you're in fifth harmony i don't even mean the public but i mean your peers your colleagues those around you whether it be the fellow girls or management other singers maybe i'm sure i'm sure but you feel like the public saw you as a pop star yeah i think so well of course because i i had never given the public my own material you know i haven't i hadn't ever shared anything that i had written or produced or saying you know i was singing other people's songs and that wasn't how music was in my brain i didn't know that that's how the music industry was and so i literally got into that group call me ignorant call me young whatever i didn't have connections at all i really thought everybody that sang a song they wrote that song i swear to god like i'm so sorry to everybody that i failed in that regard for not knowing better but that's literally what i thought i thought they at least had a part in it you know you live you learn you learn and now you're your own boss and now i do that and by the way you do it really well scattered how do songs start for you in particular how does this one start scattered was production first so i went in with oak and i just wanted to do something like kind of left field from what we were creating i was like i just wanted to be weird i wanted i want the changes to be weird i want people to be like huh was that what just happened and so we like started playing with all these like eerie sounds and just kind of moving through that um and then the like sound in the chorus is kind of like a ticking clock energetically and just like totally switches the chords up and makes you really prick your your ear up and then i was like i want i was really really really listening to heavy to the to the black panther album soundtrack at the time and i was like i really want drums that root me in that kind of energy and so that was where that went and then um when do you give it to vic i gave it to vic way after the fact i was i was in a session with omaze who mixed the project omas keith and vic came through the session and i at the end of the session i played it for both of them for the first time and and they were like okay cool like this is cool and then um he was just like whatever you need like let me know and i was like so when i was listening back and just trying to decide who to be with a feature on that he was just perfectly clicked and yeah he's just so honest and raw in his approach as well and he's not afraid to tackle concepts like mental health and i appreciate that great verse thank you yeah really a great song he had a great verse on it oh yeah he killed that really good and his his cadence and the way that he wrote it it was nuts penmanship well when you say i think i might need some help i don't feel like myself what what exactly were you going through when you were making the song or writing the song what do you think a lot depression depression heard of her uh yeah man i suffer a lot with anxiety and depression i go in and out of it but also i've realized for me personally this is my own personal journey with my own mental health i want to put a huge disclaimer out there for me it's spiritual it's very spiritual it's about when or when i don't believe in myself and winner when i'm not taking care of myself is when i feel the most disconnected for myself and i've learned my own in my own patterns that i self-sabotage when i get really close to things that i'm that i think i don't deserve and in that self-sabotage i don't feel like myself because i actually really love myself and i want to be there for myself so that struggle of like i really want to show up for myself but my brain is not letting me right now you know um so that was about is it hard to like channel that into a record like what state are you in are you in like do you understand no it wasn't difficult i'm a very vulnerable honest person and especially with someone like oak oak is like a brother to me like he he's been there for me in like major life moments as well and so it's easy to be vulnerable around him i think i might be too comfortable talking about my mental health are you disconnected from yourself at the time of writing it or are you connected i'm always both okay so you're always both i go in and out of both even while you're writing even while i'm writing when i'm writing i'm very connected to a i'm like a it's like a channel type of thing it's like uh because a lot of the time when i'm expressing something in a song i don't necessarily know that i'm feeling it that's why i'm expressing it because that's what writing is for me it's how i get to the bottom of where i'm at you know so while i'm writing it it's like a cathartic process of figuring it out you know yeah so a lot of the time i don't know about y'all if you struggle with this at all but like when i'm feeling disconnected from myself i try to lie to myself about it i don't i'm not like i'm depressed like i like have a lot to do and there's a lot going on in my life i can't just like be depressed you know as like you know they can't just just do it and just fall into it you have to kind of keep going so a lot of the time i've i've trained my brain during the nine years that i've been in this industry to shut off feeling out pain you know when it comes up because a lot of the time something will come up and you got to be on stage totally you got to do an interview you got to meet this person you got to keep going yeah smile you got to meet you know what i'm saying so you don't pause the tv you don't have questions and if you and if you take the time to pause it's going to be on camera and people are going to be talking about how you know whatever they feel about your personal moment that was not for them so what happened in front of them having time to disconnect and not go from one thing to the other leaves you with a lot of time to face to face and stewing amen and marinating yes sir so how many songs do you write attempting to do the project i have a lot of songs i have a lot of songs i have like 50-something songs but also i write beyond songs like i have journals on journals and like some have lost lol did you always keep journals yeah yeah i started when i was like seven wow or six you kept them all through fifth harmony i kept a few one of them one of them a bus driver threw away in the middle of arizona oh and it was so depressing because i had written so much in there but uh it took me like three months to get over that i literally why it was an accident no we left behind a lot of like books that were gifted and stuff and he just like and i left it by accident in my bunk and he just did a major dump in arizona i would love to read through that right somewhere in the trash in a landfill somewhere had a lot of pain in it i can only imagine yeah but i had i have yeah different and my aunt actually gave me back one fun fact gave me back one that i had written in in 2014 okay uh when i came to her house i've been staying with her when i while i'm here and she was like you have all this stuff and you've just i've just had it forever here just like look through it and see what you can what you find and it was like the anything could happen outfit from x factor and in it was a journal and i read in the journal and in one of the entries in the journal i literally wrote i think i might need some i don't feel like myself oh and i was like what the [ __ ] i was like i was like connections it was wild it was dated 2014. i was like this is so that was after the song was written that you found oh yeah wow yeah yeah after the song was written it was crazy i had a really deep moment with myself i cried hysterically i was like mama i'm proud of you we got that out of our systems and we're thriving now internal tears are you thriving now yeah i'm extremely happy that's great yeah and i go in and out of it to be fair like i'm not like always all the time on imam but i i know that i'm doing what i'm supposed to do i feel so aligned in my life i feel like i have the right people around me i feel a lot of love and i've been really focused on joy and cultivating that and being present and the more present that i get the more i pray for that the more present i am and enjoying life and in the moment you know instead of like mechanating all the time don't want to say was it important for you to sing in spanish on this project song hits you right in the genitals and the genitals wow you saw that tweet yeah you'll be watching my twitter huh we got eyes i i know and fingers you got eyes you got fingers and you got you got away with words as well just trying to bring up you know some of the hard stuff without being too hard honestly i appreciate the lack of directness [Laughter] what was your question though oh no he was asking a question i just chimed in but what was it it was a good one i wanted it was it important for you to sing in spanish on this project oh um yeah yeah no at the same time i didn't think about it it was just this is just how it flowed out of me when it was happening yeah i wrote this with actually paul pauly famous and paul doesn't speak any spanish at all and so we were like doing it and i was like damn this is so sexy man like i feel like i got to speak spanish and then i said something dirty in spanish then my mom helped me proofread and it was great what'd you say i can't understand that you can't understand you want to translate it yeah okay i say te i'll wait on you open your mouth say something say something to me it means don't be scared baby like come closer i dare you. it's really it's it's difficult to directly translate but it's like i'm daring him to dare himself god or herself them okay i already know know that you know exactly what to do which means the way that i already know that you know what to do with this body that you look at like you're thirsty um that doesn't like you could use some water giddy huh giddy up are you thinking of someone when you're writing that i was when i wrote it really i was hmm i was i mean actually i'm not going to say this i'm like no no no no no no no we're not getting all the way i do want details i know you do zach but i i you know i like those details i also know that you i mean do people consider you one of the queer icons well thank you that is correct right i'll take it i love that room around queer street usa on the queer street usa and heard on the street that you're kind of a little icon yeah i just want to know who who are you right yeah who are you writing about is is it i mean i don't want it it was a couple people i'm not going to gender anybody a couple people it was a couple people i wrote it about do they know they have this honor of this song i played it for them all at once you you held a meeting everybody in the room for the two of them we had a conversation with two of them it's getting hot in here huh maybe it's the sweater i'm not kidding but i am no but also what i love about that song is it evolves because those people aren't even in my life anymore but this song still has meaning she just is potent she keeps narrating moments interesting i like her she's sexy the song [Music] do you listen back to your own music when you come in contact with a moment in your life that like really is i don't know if i could listen to myself while i have sex i don't know if i could do that oh god that might be a little much i mean that would be really uncomfortable for you the person you're with or it could be hot i don't know i mean you must have been thinking about that when you're writing the song so i was thinking about sex for a reason maybe i don't know man i'll keep you updated has anybody hasn't happened yet okay hasn't happened yet has anybody played their music for you while getting intimate with them played their music for me yeah while getting intimate with it is that your weird way of asking me if i've been with an artist you definitely know as an artist i've met your i met somebody you met with some of my exes weren't you with allison yeah um yes i was yes sometimes we did but no that's not the point that's not the point we're moving on from that one moment who are you apologizing to and sorry what you're a sneaky [ __ ] god welcome to the couch it's been a long time it's the segways it's the segways i you're creative you're creative and exploratory i'm trying i know i know you're dying i know you're trying um what do you think based off of that reaction no yeah no though yeah yeah yeah relationship meant a lot to me so yeah a lot of this it moved me to write music and and by the way like that is i mean is that what you want out of a relationship what that it moves you to the point of music definitely yeah otherwise what was i doing there exactly yeah i mean some artists that's that's also in my song on guard i say i say um what is it that i say i got the lyrics in front of me what do you need here wait what what is it that i say can you pull up the ladies dan has them i got him hold on let's pull my body it's the lyrics i say it somewhere is that it okay wait go down go down go down thank you genius we're basically uh take a look under my heart run your hands over my scars maybe too much so i gotta see who you are before you inspire the art that was a terrible sing along but no i like that i can sing i promise in this song i mean you need to get a convincing rendition oh yeah very it's a singer like at what point in the relationship do you realize that you're in this for art is it when it's over oh i'm not in anything for art let's start there oh i am i i don't get into situations specifically to write about them like i i'm sure there's people who do that but i don't do that um the only reason i live my house is so i have something to talk about honestly i respect that we all have our that drives us but i will say that i'm moved by emotion okay that's where my writing comes from life experience emotion but positive or negative both yeah they're all don't you experience both positive and negative emotions totally but do you write about the positive ones man is that another dig you how are you digging at me sir i'm just wondering like are you sitting on this i don't want to say is a very happy song okay got it yeah it is it is sexual yeah it is very yeah yeah that's happy that is happy i mean it depends on how it goes actually no yeah this is definitely an emo project i'll give it to you this is an emo project um because i needed to get my feelings out and i did and these were the the tougher emotions the vulnerability that's what this project is is like me in a catharsis mode of getting the difficult emotions out through art what do you learn about yourself after getting this baby out there into the world i learned a lot about myself through this process honestly um so many things but i guess one of the most um pertinent lessons was that i'm resilient like really honestly truly i will keep on my mission no matter what and i also learned a lot about just trusting myself and my intuition the first time and moving with that and allowing that to be what guides me because it's always been what's guided me and it's got me to where i am um i learned a lot about music like just as a musician i grew a lot as an artist through this process because i worked with so many beautiful collaborators who helped me grow as a person and as an artist as a songwriter i hope to do that more i hope to get even more collaborative and more open because i feel like this time i was probably a little more strict about who i was working with and what i was working with because i was so protective of like i need this needs to be me like this i need to prove to myself that i can do this that art is my you know because i had lost my connection with it for a while like i really didn't think i could do it and then and then i reconnected what changes what brings on that reconnection doing it just pushing yourself pushing yourself and showing up for yourself and doing it it's a big one yeah that's literally it that's the only way you can get better that's the only way you can figure out if you can do something or not is like doing it you talked about your gut and learning i'm sorry excuse me no you go just like learning not to allow failure to deter you not allowing the nose and the rejection and all that kind of stuff to deter your gut instinct that what you're doing is right for you i second that statement because i do think consistency is one of the biggest things in the world and i think consistency and the ability to be consistent is what ultimately determines who makes it and who doesn't because the truth is the day you quit that next day could have been the moment and like it doesn't matter if you're doing it to five people two people 100 people whatever like you're never going to get to where you want to go if you don't just show them exactly i agree you talked about trusting your gut and getting stronger do you only trust your gut after you've been in moments where you should have trusted your gut and you didn't yeah unfortunately [Laughter] yeah i mean i also i feel like when i was younger i had this kind of free-flowing trust of self that was so strong and i didn't realize it was so strong until it wasn't and then when it wasn't i was like what the [ __ ] is wrong with me man like i this used to be my i didn't i didn't doubt for a second what i was supposed to be doing that's why i did what i did and then and then i regained it doing what i do while you're with fifth harmony are there moments where you don't listen to your gut when you should have oh yeah what were those moments i mean [Laughter] you tell me no i'm just kidding i saw i saw the question mechanating i saw it well because you know that story is crazy um your fifth heart the fifth harmony story oh yeah tough about him but guess who i am now lauren here period amen amen but like is everybody moved on to the point where nobody even wants to tell that story anymore because the story hasn't even been told fully ever i think that y'all got to wait a few more years for that one you know the tell-alls come when we're in our 60s honey 60s come on 50s 60s wow when we're all you know when when people can't tour anymore knees are pretty weak you're like i spit out the book man i'm just kidding but not but no no no i'm joking around kind of no but i love those i love those women very much yes and i'm so grateful to see everybody doing this that's all that matters we got to where we wanted to be it was pretty cool to see normani post about poster the other day she posted about it about prelude the other day it was though yeah she saw one of the little posters is that a sisterhood that lasts forever or is that a co-workership no i think that we we went through too much life [ __ ] together for it to just be you know a co-workership i think that i think there's there's like in a sisterhood like there's this this constant love no matter what you know yeah but i think we all took our time to heal and i think that's what we're that's the path that we're on right now because a lot of a lot of what happened to us wasn't even us it was oh totally all of the pieces around us that you really had no control over absolutely none and we were all really young we're literally adolescents if two 15 year olds two 16 year olds and a 19 year old they might as well have been all right it's really interesting because you're on yourself you all are on this journey of self and finding yourself through art i think things that you weren't really allowed to do like things that got paused once you ended up winning and the group was formed and then at the same time we got third place but we won well yeah you the thing that i do and maybe we will probably edit this out but like maybe we'll edit this out or maybe not or maybe we'll probably keep it i do think about i know y'all you'll keep it i think about the story of fifth harmony and we had mel c on our couch the other day of the spice girls and they're rather iconic a little bit and the tiny bit the one thing these girls that they had and that they made it very clear was they insulated themselves like amongst the girls and nobody was allowed in so when you talk about these other pieces above you like and around you powers and energies larger than you and out of your control it you know the group was penetrated there was no there was no insulation fully amongst you guys we were strangers when we met yeah how do you create insulation with a stranger you realize that you're in this together is that is that what happened zach have you been through it no but but i think i i think it's hard of course it's hard it's not only hard it's there's a lot of factors into it you know what i'm saying there's a lot of different there's a lot of different realities at play i think that's the biggest one and when i say insulation i think insulation existed amongst most of you i think that like i said we were young adolescence thrown into spotlight because remember x factor is not even anything but a reality show that you're on tv in front of millions off the bat you know and i think we all just had our own way of processing that that affected obviously one another and that affected the group in general and that affected us personally and i think that now we're at a point in our lives where we're healing from it and we're each doing what we were truly meant to do for ourselves you know and destined to do you feel yeah because i i do because again if it hadn't happened exactly how it did i would not be where i am so i don't regret a second of anything that happened you know what i'm saying even if it wasn't the best experience sometimes sometimes it was the best experience and it was a that's life it's a multitude of this constant crossing of positive and negative you know and for me once i got to the point in my healing journey where i realized that i'm not a victim that i am a product of my experiences and trauma but that i'm responsible for healing that and i'm responsible for how i show up for myself and i'm and i can't blame people for who they are when they're hurt i can't wow because i i wouldn't expect them to blame me for who i am when i'm hurt because who i was when i was hurt i wasn't myself i wasn't always happy to be a positive to be around i wasn't i wasn't myself you know because depression and anxiety and anger and up tension and conversations that aren't had and build ups and all that kinds of and no one to help orchestrate communication no one to teach us that no one no mental health resources anywhere along the way you know expected to be an adult in adolescence with zero knowledge of this industry so many adults taking advantage of that naivete and that is i think yeah it's abusive i think that's the biggest thing and and i can't blame anybody for how they had to process going through that interesting it's not my place it's a beautiful revelation but that's a beautiful revelation to have and it allows you hopefully to live a much brighter life oh my god with a lot less weight on your shoulder lots of less weight and a lot a lot more um compassion peace because it's not about comparison when do you realize that though when it hurts you enough that you're over it hmm because that's a it's a vital piece of understanding it's not about comparison a lot of people no matter how big they may be in music yeah and and they'll never be satisfied and they'll die miserable but a legend so was it all worth it was it let me know when you get to heaven or hell who knows where you're going please listen to the prelude there's a link in the description below it is beyond worth your ear you describe this project as like an emo project would you say that's gonna carry on into whatever is next or yeah i have a lot of emotions honey i'm a cancer sun scorpio moon i have a lot of water around me and me no yeah i i like to express myself that's my that's my art i like to explore how i'm feeling i like to make sense of life through my writing are we we're in a new moon phase correct we are we just did new moon and sedge what does this mean new beginnings oh cleansing a release of the old to usher in the new wow that is really stressful to think yes but also think about how potent it is so charged with possibility you know so charge was possible so charged with possibility what do you need to let go of that you're still holding on to you got time because i'm ready i got your exact list tell me uh people places things all of it i have a suitcase well write down the suitcase i mean i suggest you write it down and look at it and then i let it go burn it and keep doing it until you see them all fall out of your life light a candle too white one okay got it i like that energy i'm very i am very big into the stars and the moon and the oceans i can't believe that they dictate they do our our way of life and i'm being they are us we are them yes we are all one and i do believe in like signs and like that all the yeah i'm a tourist the four four fours and then oh angel numbers you're a taurus cute okay okay i see you i'm trying i'm trying i see you and you i'm a sagittarius i love sage everyone and people say that and everyone's like oh i do love such i don't know i like you guys i don't really know what that means but i appreciate it you guys are fiery i'm into it okay this is all connecting now as to why you use that um huh really loyal oh yeah he's very loyal mm-hmm yes so we're taurus though are you are you being sarcastic there no no okay we're both being [ __ ] we're being nice to each other right now it's super cute don't say this all makes sense as to why you went to the you said you bought the little crystal thing and you used that instagram crystal ball as well it's all connected fun fact that on a full moon wow bought those bulls on a full moon that mean that matters of course it does she's up there she's up there watching you know i love her i found out that my dating sign is a one of the the ones because that's a dating sign yeah like like a sign that is appropriate for taurus oh like a compatibility thing yeah yeah yeah i'm going to start dating based on that what is it of course a scorpio is forget childhood traumas triggers who cares about your baggage buddy i'm going based off the stars i'm gonna leave it to the cosmos they said we would work that's true that's literally i was about to that's how we get caught up this is soaked up no i was about to oh sure tell them something i i had a revelation that i needed to like distance myself from this person and then i found out through the google that uh scorpio is one of my top two or three signs and uh what's good this person i was into is a scorpio so i went running back when i really was planning on saying get the [ __ ] out because some scorpios just don't deserve your time well yeah but this one i i think maybe does they deserved it i mean the internet says we're compatible and like but do you think y'all are compelled yes the internet summarized exactly what i was thinking why were you running away from it then scared of love uh maybe a little scared of love maybe scared of but also probably afraid that they're really not into me and i'm really into them in the fear of maybe not having that be reciprocated i'm glad that the internet checked you because you you can't you can't let [ __ ] go because you don't think you deserve it that's not cool you deserve it wow it's accurate yeah because the truth is like i i'm so into them but the fear of them not res matching that let it be let it flow let it be a lot of flavor let it flow because they probably are into you right evidently that's really what my gut is saying and my gut let it keep flowing that's the fun part yeah that's the fun part and also if it doesn't work out right and they end up you up whatever you experienced it and you don't have a what if in the back of your heart you know yeah you'll know you're right that's that's better you're right that's how you got to live life man you could die tomorrow and that could have been your soul mate and you never kissed them wow that would suck i'm wearing their shirt right now spicy who are you say hello comment below comment below reveal your idea let us know who you are secret admirer scorpio baby can you leave a scorpion in the comments jazz it up let them know who you are look how red you are yeah yeah yeah you're ready you're gonna watch this probably not i mean uh i mean probably somebody they know they better watch it okay they better be supportive i'm gonna go which i do they're she says scorpios are investigators they are investigators they do watch everything and uh they uh yeah well i mean like they're complete opposites but the same guys now that you've said all this and there's a chance they watch it are you nervous about that no no exactly let them know whatever period they already know i already told them period yeah period they're very aware of my feelings yay yes that's cute yeah i honestly wish you loved thank you i thank you so much you're welcome i haven't had it probably ever wow i really wish it for you yeah i hope you get to experience really blissful and sexy ass left wow that's an overstatement i hope that i mean i'll take that'll happen i'll take point two five of any of that you're gonna take all of it and then you know you should do listen i don't want to say the first time you get it on oh listen you're right when we're done please maybe not after maybe not right after maybe maybe a little bit maybe send me a pic before oh okay just be like that's all i need from you and i'll be like yes you got it you got it i you know i don't have a sex playlist because you need to have sex to have one of those zach so maybe have you never had sex i am partially a virgin i mean here's the deal i don't want to what is a partial virgin do we really need to sit down you can't throw that out there ask me some personal asked questions so we're going to have that converse this is this is now the lauren haragi show should i whip out a pie chart here but i do i just want to make clear that i you know the internet has defined me via urban dictionary as somebody who brings up that he's a virgin in every interview that i do so i am self-conscious when talking about it uh honestly it's okay but but it hasn't happened many many interviews so uh i am a partial virgin so i haven't you know i haven't gone all the way to home base right right right right but you've been into the other you visited the other i've visited you know base two you've approached a couple babies it depends on how you define bases i've realized that everybody has their own everybody has their own definition of basis should we go through the bases i mean yeah actually yeah i'm down because i don't know if mine are even clear i'm kind of a quick gal like we're all different if i wanna i wanna i'm quick about it jealous although i love a hot makeout session wow but what does that usually lead to sex let's see hopefully i will literally just cuddle and do nothing oh no i'm a little pop i'm too warning for that how do you do that how do you do that inject that i'm not upset uh you know it can't shame me any longer it's not that i get nervous uh you know for a while i was very uncomfortable with my body but to be honest i do get comfortable with people over time yeah are you demisexual uh you gotta like have a emotional connection oh yeah asexual i'm very well i'm into anybody and everybody and uh i'm very much into personalities over the way somebody looks i love that uh but yeah i am i you know it's not it's really purely being afraid of my own physicality that keeps me from maybe having you know baby intimate moments you got to be doing affirmations in the morning yeah yeah yeah well i'm going to send you some affirmations please that too i'm so serious i i would like that yeah because you got to get into it i need to get into it yeah because even the most comfortable i get with somebody it's still a problem for me i hate myself no i love you what are you doing no i'm i'm joking triggers me to laugh at myself and then it's like a whole thing i'm sorry but please send me this affirmation i will i'm gonna send you those affirmations yeah because i am like you know definitely definitely looking to uh you deserve it take a trip around that's just something oh let me tell you this if somebody's gotten to a point where y'all's closes off your clothes are off okay and you guys are together god they don't give a [ __ ] yeah i'm telling you as somebody who also struggled with that for a long time like super seriously like and it sucks because then you're in your head and you can't connect physically when you're in your head like it's just not possible energetically right you gotta do some tantric stuff you gotta chill yourself out and you gotta assert your power your own power you're alive in this body that's true you're alive in this body right now that's something it's definitely exactly how it is is how it is and it deserves love at all times no matter what you're right and guess what there's always somebody who's down to give it to you i promise comment below also comment below please a scorpion we need scorpions only we're getting zach a fellow a fellow person i'll take anything yeah okay it's just not a plant no plants uh i can't wait for the follow-up interview do you have like a plan is it like your job to release all your bodies of work that you pick when it comes out yeah i'm independent now i do what i do what i want so i mean is the second bodywork done yeah no um so i have this ep is like uh like the first half of the full album so the full album is gonna come first my actual debut album boom boom 2022 let's go um be on the lookout i'm gonna be on your ass you're gonna see me everywhere deal with it um no but then and then i'm gonna make more music man i have so much music i have like projects that i want to do with friends i have like so many producers that i'm like we're going to lock in right and they're like yes i'll get the next one i'm the next one we're going to make music and do you even want a machine do you even want a label if they come correct um no questions asked boom nice how great why the hell would i give you ownership in any other business that is complete nonsense yeah to even bring up intellectual property belongs to the person who creates it right totally i think i hey i could not agree but you know if they come correct and they're like we just believe in you and we believe in this project and they want to make a percentage with me and they want to you know do business handshake i'm ready to go let's do it i love it potential labels comment below i'm a great time i'm a good partner i'm out here comment on the video below i'm just kidding i mean yeah if you want to but i'm good yeah you don't really need it i don't really need you how amazing is that to say it's really nice it's really nice and you know it's not this either like but it's it's like i want to be myself while i'm alive yeah i wrote a whole song about it i literally say that exactly actually i think in the song like i just want to be me i don't want to have to pretend i don't want to have to sell something i don't want to have to sing somebody else's song because that's what's going to get me a number i don't care if i get a number one i wanted to be off of something that i really loved and believed in and like was mine and if i don't deserve a number one god will tell me and be like yo [ __ ] you're not supposed to do this and i'll be like all right what are we doing next yeah but there's levels you know you don't need to just hit it you know everyone doesn't and it will come in my heart i do that's you can do it one day one song was gonna do it i know it but there's so many great artists who have never had a number one exactly but that's just like a goal in my in my soul music wise like i just want i want enough people to hear the music that it could move to that position does that make sense yeah yeah you got to keep showing up to get there exactly and i will nine years let's go it's going to be going for 10. and then another and then maybe 30. we'll see oh yeah that's scary right 30. i mean i plan on doing this until i'm dead i mean i respect that but being on a stage dancing i'm not sure we'll see um we'll see i don't know i'm not giving j.lo god gives i don't i don't know if i can give jayla she really does give she like really cares about giving too so michael like at that point i'm like i'm probably gonna be topped out i'm probably gonna be like you know what i looked good i looked i looked good in my my twenties and thirties that was that [ __ ] hologram you from that era thank you yeah just put her up she looks good nice that'd probably be real lifelike ass robots by then too that could do she could do it my 20 year old self could do it i mean i plan on you know steph delisa did that recently so badass like an old uh an ai version of herself really no she's bad that's sick saved elisa i like that she's so cool my corpse is going to be rolled into the studio until like i'm literally dust i mean i i into the sea until your dust no no into the studio you know i'm going to be here until you're literally disintegrating yeah yeah at the microphone just throw me in the trash ventriloquist no i'm just kidding or like you know hook up a microphone just to my brain waves they might be able to do that bro that already exists got a a radio show hosted from from the grave whoa you would be the first i've add that to my list add it to the list of first honey rack them up there's none other there's no other first that's the only one that's impressive that's good that's an impressive only one that's the only one you're right anyway yeah we still gotta get sex on there i should start in a more manageable position i should like you know conquer that first you should that's a more manageable one i just have to ask this one question because i've had this you want to ask me about music well actually this is not about music okay but i had this screenshot since february 28th and i just like you're here since february 20 oh god what are you doing this is talking about how 22 minutes yeah after you put this right after you posted it it's actually sickening how many of y'all use celebrities who are humans for your petty ass drama on this app yeah and you went off on fans about that and like people well stan twitter stay on twitter about how they project their own [ __ ] onto people they don't even know yes oh yeah it says let's see um rude and just cruel to other people online in the name of defending or uplifting your fave is kind of evil yeah do you know you know why why you went off on this one you're so funny well it's true do you know why you did this can you comment on this controversial thing you've said please well it's true you see so many you see so many stands attacking people saying go die i'm like that day particularly i'm not sure when what was that you don't remember what you did on february 28th on february 28th that's my uncle's birthday i don't even know why i'd be that mad that day because we get attacked by people all the time i'm like no i think your favorite artist doesn't love you as much as you think i mean i'm sorry but a lot of these people are really delusional like if you live your life on on twitter like that's that you said you told me everything i need to know about how i should feel about your opinion already to be honest no but for me is the people who just like have these scary fights with each other but like using their faves as the reason why they're being nasty to one another yeah and then unfortunately like amazing artists names get caught up in all this crazy petty drama that has nothing to do with them or who they are as people or what they bring to the table and then it's just messy and it's just weird i think it's weird when i see it i'm like this is weird i'm gonna just mute this off my timeline yeah you don't want people using your name while telling somebody else to go kill themselves it's like yeah what are you weird leave me out of this also just like why are you that invested man get turn your phone off go outside enjoy the day take a trip if it's a mushroom do it like just chill the chill me but you know they're all going to come for me now if it'll daddy nah pull that that is a sound for tick tock that's a good one that's that's a that's a future meme thank god yeah i need those they tell me my team keeps telling me everybody keeps telling me please make a tick tock go viral oh you can't otherwise how are you valid otherwise how are you an artist you have no no you are uh validated on tick tock i mean that is man i don't give up hey man i'm so sorry like i tried i did and and guess what when vine was around i loved that i was at the perfect age when vine was around if tick tock would have been the sh i would have owned that but now i don't care you have other things to focus on i don't care i don't i don't i want to care dude i really do like and sometimes i do listen i will sit there and laugh for hours you'll watch oh my god the bing bong [ __ ] all of the funny things that happened they're great they're hilarious i love memes i'm not going to knock it or the people that create them it's really just i'm not a meme creator you know what i'm saying like you got to give your your likeness and your your words and your songs to those that are the thing about tiktok is when you're trying to be serious it comes across as corny and when you're not trying to be serious it could also come across as corny and i just don't have interest in potentially being corny for no reason to get attention i don't need that i don't i don't i don't know i don't want it maybe maybe it's not that i don't need it maybe it's that i don't want it well your music is what you want to i want you to listen to my songs hi i'm lauren i'm a singer-songwriter from miami florida and i like to write about my feelings and i'd like for you to listen to me do that and sing cause that's what the [ __ ] i do i'm not a content creator i'm sorry by the way there's a link to praise i'm funny though so you can also hire me to do things i'll do no i don't do cameos either i could one day though i might get there one day i'm not gonna lie i'm not gonna i'm not gonna put myself in a position where i'd have to backtrack if i get there if she gets sad enough i will be on cameo i'm not knocking nobody who gets a bag off of their they're like we got so much to look forward to in the future you got cameos virtual lauren on stage when you're 60 a fifth harmony tell no the last one i'm not partaking oh okay but please listen to prelude there's a link in the description below it is there for you um highly recommend also links to you know follow lauren herregia if you don't already know her and yeah instagram is following my algorithm so hit me up yeah [ __ ] you mr instagram you all know i mean dude it's been crazy i get anally pro by instagram each and every day it's like why am i even there why am i here i'm trying to contribute to your platform it's like you don't want me to do not want me like clearly you're sending me the message how the [ __ ] are my followers going up but my engagement's going down really it doesn't make sense bro oh god stop with your algorithm i hate social media me too i stopped using them saying i was like i can't keep up i was created for the tumblr club penguin era into the facebook that was my and honestly i will say evolving into instagram those that that era was fantastic when twitter got introduced i was like [Music] okay i was late to twitter twitter wasn't my thing and and i can take the most breaks from twitter because it's toxic yeah it's hard like it's weird you got the the words though it's a lot and also people just misinterpret each other because it's a bunch of text you know what i'm saying so it's just constant intention to misunderstand and never an intention to resolve always an intention to be right never an intention to learn of course because i don't [ __ ] with those kinds of environments they're so they're so um limiting what about this one where you said yeah oh wow oh that's that was god honey you saw that you saw how i get protected let's go on that note what's up lauren everybody thanks for being here i'm protected hey beautiful human thanks for watching our full interview but i get it like full interviews a lot so we got a clips channel we don't expect you to watch the full thing anymore so we just gave you the highlights please subscribe and uh notifications and all that stuff okay cool i love you

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Length: 67min 2sec (4022 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 11 2021