00:00Hey guys, I'm Melanie Fiona and I'm hoping I'll see you at this year's Essence Music
00:07Festival in New Orleans, the weekend of July 6th to 8th.
00:11I will be there on July 6th in the Superlodges, I will see you there.
00:14The best thing about being at the Essence Music Festival is New Orleans.
00:20I love New Orleans.
00:23I've fallen in love with that city unexpectedly and it's just become one of my favorite places
00:28to go.
00:29And then what better way to be in New Orleans than to perform and live and breathe and feel
00:36the music.
00:37And the people that come out, I mean it's just a beautiful, beautiful weekend.
00:424AM was the official single, yeah.
00:44The first official single was Gone and Never Coming Back.
00:47I've always said that I would do any type of music I want to do and I feel like doing.
00:54You know, if you listen to my music, both of my albums from The Bridge, The Bridge standing
00:58for bridging genres and ethnicities and time eras and people together to the MF life.
01:04There is elements of soul, rock, reggae, hip-hop, R&B, you know there's a little bit of everything
01:11and I've always envisioned and, you know, seen myself as an artist that never wanted to
01:18be classified as one genre.
01:19I've always enjoyed it for the next single, This Time, featuring J. Cole.
01:22And most people know me as a ballad girl but I do have some spunk in me and I do have a
01:26lot of up-tempos on this album.
01:28And J. Cole is featured on the song, it's called This Time and it was produced by No ID and written
01:34by John Tay Austin.
01:36And it is a great record.
01:39It has a good feel, I think it gives people a sense of a vibe of the type of artist I am
01:43and lyrically it is, um, it's about second chances.
01:50It's about picking yourself up and, you know, going after what you want and being better,
01:54you know, learning from your mistakes and being better in love and I think we've all been
01:58there and we can all learn from that.
01:59There's so many artists out there, female artists, and to be considered the top 5 or 6 of the best
02:08is a win already.
02:09With any sort of recognition from a nomination or an award, it still just blows my mind because
02:15I, that's really, it's just the respect for me, just to know that I'm, you know, gaining
02:20the respect or the attention of the people that are in my industry and they respect what I
02:24do is, is just success to me, so I, I, I feel very, uh, blessed.
02:29If I wasn't doing music, I'm sure I'd be, I'd be some sort of psychiatrist or like therapist
02:34or something like that.
02:35Music has been my calling, so I think that in doing music, I still get to be a little bit
02:40of a social worker and listen to people and be therapeutic and help each other out and
02:45I think that that's what I get to do through my music.
02:47I'm Melanie Fiona and you're checking me out right here on Essence TV.
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