![]() ![]() She admits that she has always been a vulnerable person. “I don’t really know any other way to be,” she said about being so open with her life. Her interviews often feature questions about these darker times in her past and she is very open with discussing them. In Lambert’s music and spoken word, she is fearless in the fact that she writes a lot about her past personal experiences in rape, abuse, and body sensitivity. It is becoming easier for gay artists to be out within their field, well I don’t know if easy, but common.” “It feels pretty great as an out- artist to have had success. “I think we are on an upward slope, for sure,” Lambert said. “You know, two girls rolling around in lingerie and making out is not a typical lesbian relationship,” Lambert said, “I wanted something that reflected my life and my community.”Įven with that in mind, Lambert feels LGBTQ movement in the U.S. Videos objectifying lesbian relationships started popping up on the web. Lambert felt that there wasn’t an honest depiction of what a lesbian couple looked like. I scoured the internet for the out-artists I knew, and there was never a love story the same way that a lot of top 40 straight artists were making.” “I remember just seeing Taylor Swift videos in college and seeing all these amazing love story videos. “It was sort of this brain-child I had since I was seventeen,” Lambert said. The music video for “She Keeps Me Warm,” is something that Lambert is extremely proud of. Lambert, who is openly gay herself, felt that a young female going through the same experiences as her, would think ‘how cool is that! I’ve never heard that on the radio before.’ The message behind the song is what made her feel that it was important to release it and sing it at her shows. “Then I realized, as a seventeen year old, I would have loved to hear a song like that on the radio.” “I didn’t want to beat a dead horse,” Lambert said. At first, she didn’t want to release the song. I felt like I wanted to give people something,” Lambert said. “People came to the show hoping that I’d do ‘Same Love’ and I don’t sing to a track and I don’t rap very well yet. About a year later, Lambert released an extension of “Same Love” into her own song called “She Keeps Me Warm” for her album. Lambert was doing small performances around the same time the song was released and as the song grew in popularity so did Lambert’s following. The popularity of “Same Love” was immense. I am honored, it’s a to privilege be a full time artist. That I hope I would have chosen in my life time. “More than anything, I get to be a full time artist and that is something that I’m proud of. “There are two ways to think about it, I guess my career, professional life and also my personal life because it’s an entirely different realm. Lambert worked as brunch waitress and bartender when she got asked by the duo to write the hook for the song. With the release, Lambert’s life completely changed from her small town Everett, Washington lifestyle. ![]() The song “Same Love” quickly hit double platinum in the United States. It has been over two years since singer-songwriter Mary Lambert’s collaboration with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis was released. Mary Lambert performed last night at the Center for the Arts. ![]()
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