As Cassie braces to release her yet-untitled soph album, she revealed to MTV News that she is ready to let loose and find unexampled ways to use her voice.
"You're decidedly going to see more independence. On [this record album], I got to exercise with different people and [learn] what their habits were and what whole shebang well with me," she said. "So you'll view a dispute in vocals, a short bit more personality. And it's unquestionably a sensual album."
This personality comes through on her latest single, "Official Girl," featuring Lil Wayne, a song dedicated to independent-spirited ladies everywhere.
"I definitely think that when I first heard the song, from the start of the record you kind of feel like, you know, 'I'm leaving it up to you. I left it to you,' " she aforementioned. "And by the time it gets to the second verse and makes it to the ending of the song, it just feels like I'm saying, 'I don't desire to put up with it anymore. It's non fair.' "
Cassie hopes that the song can spread the message of girl powerfulness and authorize girls to stand up and take control of their amorous relationships.
"It was a nifty first single for me because it said something. I fell in beloved with records like [Beyonc�s] 'Irreplaceable,' where you could emotionally attach yourself to the record book as presently as you heard it," she added. "I didn't want something so vague and so clubby, because I wanted people to see me as a woman with something to say."
For those of you who are still indecipherable as to what precisely an "official girl" is, the vocaliser defines the song's title this way: "I would say that an 'official girl' is someone in a relationship," she aforementioned. "You're attentive, you're honest, but at the same time you can rent go a little bit.
"To be an official girl, you just have to ride for your significant other and support them 100 percent."
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