00:00I've been working real hard at people-pleasing pageant dreams at the parlor chant for the crowns.
00:13I don't need another sad whiskey from my self-esteem, don't move away this crowd.
00:21So I'm gonna drown all this pressure of holding on to something so prove it wrong.
00:35Time and time again I faked my song just to belong.
00:44You thought you had me figured out, oh I guess you were wrong, dear I am wrong.
00:58So wrong.
01:01Well I wonder if they know I left the party shit, friends let their friends drop lonely around here.
01:08Trying to live up to the golden standard, it feels like the head of me by my eight years.
01:21So I'm gonna, I'm gonna drown all this pressure of holding on to something so prove it wrong.
01:32Yeah.
01:33Time and time again I faked my song just to belong.
01:43You thought you had me figured out, oh I guess you were wrong, dear I am wrong.
01:57Dear I am wrong.
02:00Time and time again I faked my song.
02:05It's never worth faking my song.
02:07Trying to be cool, trying to prove I belong.
02:10That I belong.
02:13You made a box to make me feel small.
02:17I couldn't beat it so I guess you were wrong.
02:20Guess you were wrong, dear I am wrong.
02:25You're wrong.
02:26You're wrong, yeah you're wrong.
02:48You're on, yeah, you're on, damn right, you're on
02:53You're on, yeah, you're on, damn right, you're on
02:58You're on, yeah, you're on, damn right, you're on
03:03You're on, yeah, you're on, damn right, you're on
03:18Y'all are so kind.
03:25This next song.
03:27Oh, God.
03:27I'm out here talking to shit.
03:28I love it.
03:29Be more.
03:30Make some noise, Be More.
03:31Make some noise, Be More.
03:33Who is that?
03:34I love this for us.
03:36So this next song, y'all, I wrote this song for Apple Music that they released on their Juneteenth playlist a few weeks ago.
03:43And I was really honored when they asked me to.
03:45And I had this song that I've been wanting to do something with, but I didn't know what to do with it.
03:49I didn't want to, I wanted to put it out soon, but I didn't know how and blah, blah, blah.
03:54And I thought, you know what, I'll put this on here.
03:56And it's a song about actually liking yourself.
03:58It's a song about body image and actually looking in the mirror and actually being like, okay.
04:04But seeing yourself and the person that you are and what you look like and knowing that our worth isn't all in the exterior.
04:10You know?
04:12But that there's got to be some beauty that comes from the inside.
04:15To tell the whole picture about a person.
04:19And I decided to write this song called More Than Perfect.
04:34This isn't the right one, is it?
04:35Is that one more?
04:37Oh, hell.
04:38It's okay.
04:39It's all right.
04:40Thank you, thank you for giving out.
04:46Oh, oh, oh, oh.
04:53Your body's keeping score.
04:56It can't keep up anymore.
04:59You count scars like stars up against the sky.
05:01Use a makeup constellation
05:06For the blemished information
05:09Like the skin that you're in
05:11Is it right so you try to hide it
05:13With a stroke of a brush
05:17You can feel like enough
05:20You wouldn't want to cover up
05:24On the deeper surface
05:28That's why your world is
05:31You're a queen, you're a star
05:32Yeah, you're beautiful the way you are
05:34The way you are
05:36And the world's wide open
05:39When your heart is showing
05:41You're a queen, you're a star
05:43Yeah, you're beautiful the way you are
05:45I know that you're hurting
05:49Cause the skinny tea ain't working
05:52Change the curse but the cure
05:54Doesn't work like you expected
05:56It turns out that the answer
06:00For your confidence to answer
06:03Is right at the root of the wreck
06:06Is right where you left it
06:07Underneath the surface
06:11That's where all your worth is
06:14You're a queen, you're a star
06:16Yeah, you're beautiful the way you are
06:17The way you are
06:19And the world's wide open
06:21And the world's wide open
06:22When your heart is showing
06:24You're a queen, you're a star
06:26Yeah, you're beautiful the way you are
06:28You're more than perfect
06:30Yeah, you're more than perfect
06:38Yeah, you're more than perfect
06:47Yeah, you're more than perfect
06:48Yeah, you're more than perfect
06:52All the poison you laid in
06:54For the sake of perfection
06:57Yeah, you let it eat away to us
07:00Oh, with a stroke of a brush
07:05You can feel like enough
07:08Till there's nothing left to cover up
07:11Oh, underneath the surface
07:16That's where all your worth is
07:19You're a queen, you're a star
07:20Yeah, you're beautiful the way you are
07:22The way you are
07:24And the world's wide open
07:27When your heart is showing
07:29You're a queen, you're a star
07:31Yeah, you're beautiful the way you are
07:33You're more than perfect
07:35You're more than perfect
07:38Oh
07:39You're more than perfect
07:45You're more than perfect
07:48Oh
07:50You're more than perfect
08:18Thank y'all so much
08:26So I'm a new artist
08:28I'm a country artist out in Nashville
08:30Making my own kind of shit
08:32Because I'm still from Baltimore
08:33Hello
08:36But I released a song last year
08:39That opened up just a ton of
08:41Really cool opportunities for me
08:43Including being able to be here at Essence Fest
08:45Which was a dream of mine
08:47I've had this since I was a kid, y'all
08:49Like I'm really
08:50I'm really up in here
08:52And I've never been to Knowles before
08:53It's my first time
08:54A bitch about to get some crawfish
08:56Hello
08:57If y'all got recommendations
08:58Please let me know
08:59But anyway
09:01Back to this song
09:02It's called
09:03Sober and Skinny
09:04And if you're in here
09:06And if you ever supported this song
09:07Thank you
09:07If this is your first time hearing it
09:09Thank you for listening
09:10Seriously
09:11This is so much fun
09:12I'm having a fucking time
09:13With my life here tonight
09:14And I hope y'all are too
09:15Y'all ready, man?
09:17I empty the fridge
09:31You empty the bottle
09:33We're stacking up a mountain
09:36Of hard pills
09:37Who have to swallow
09:39It's strange how we point
09:42How flaws in one another
09:44We both got different vices and they lead us to each other
09:50Cause you overdrink and I overeat
09:53We're underthinking everything
09:56And every night we swear it's gonna change
10:00But in a perfect world, you get sober and you're skinny
10:05We live all for more than pennies
10:08Writing checks that we can cash
10:11Keeping all our promises
10:13We got faith, we cut each other
10:16We grow up and we get better
10:19Things we fix and we got plenty
10:21When you get sober, I'll get skinny
10:24When you get sober, I'll get skinny
10:30If you want me to shrink
10:37Well, I think we should talk to one
10:39Find a comfy couch and let out all the hurt we've kept inside
10:45Since we were young and so numb
10:48Now we find ways to cover up
10:51If we keep going how we're going, what will we become?
10:55Cause in a perfect world, you get sober, I get skinny
11:00We live all for more than pennies
11:03Writing checks that we can cash
11:06Keeping all our promises
11:08We got faith, we cut each other
11:11We grow up and we get better
11:14Things we fix and we got plenty
11:17When you get sober, I'll get skinny
11:19It's easy to imagine
11:31Imagine
11:32All our problems disappear like magic
11:36Magic
11:38But in an honest world
11:42You're not sober, I'm not skinny
11:44We're scraping by your borrowed pennies
11:47Writing checks that we'll never cash
11:50Breaking all our promises
11:52We got faith, we cut each other
11:55Maybe we'll grow together
11:58Making up our happy ending
12:01But you get sober, I'll get skinny
12:04Oh, you get sober, I'll get skinny
12:09Oh, you get skinny
12:11Oh, you get sober, I'll get skinny
12:15Oh, oh, oh, oh
12:19Oh, oh, oh, oh
12:21Oh, oh, oh, oh
12:24It's easy to imagine
12:29Yeah, it's easy to imagine
12:34It's easy to imagine
12:40It's easy to imagine
12:46It's easy to imagine
13:16I get high, I get low
13:27I'm a rolling roller coaster
13:31And the friends that I know
13:34They all feel the same
13:37I'm a wreck, fully loaded
13:41Liking all it seems but hoping
13:44I get high, I get low
13:48It all feels the same
13:51Have you ever tried to find the time
13:57To take a hook around the other side
14:04You'll see grass much greener
14:08But life's always sweeter
14:11When your heart beats painful
14:15Hey! I feel hot, that I'm cold
14:20I'm a hurricane in motion
14:23At the places I go
14:26They all know me by name
14:29Leave a mess when I'm going
14:33Cause I'm naturally outspoken
14:36I feel hot, that I'm cold
14:39Here I feel the same
14:42Have you ever tried to find the time
14:49To take a hook around the other side
14:55You'll see grass much greener
14:57You'll see grass much greener
14:59But life's always sweeter
15:02When your heart beats painful
15:04When your heart beats painful
15:08When your heart beats painful
15:14I thank God, I'm it
15:24If my heart beats luxury
15:26I thank God I'm alive
15:27I thank God I'm alive
15:30I thank God I'm alive
15:34I thank God I'm alive
15:37To tell the story
15:40Yeah
15:41Yeah
15:45Yeah
15:49Yeah
15:51Yeah
15:53Let's get high
15:59For the low
16:01Raise your toes for all the broken
16:04Sing a song
16:06We all know
16:08When the tides start to change
16:11We can run
16:13With the chosen
16:14When we live with hearts wide open
16:18Let's get high
16:19When we're low
16:21Find some joy in all the pain
16:24Find some joy in all the pain
16:28Cause have you ever
16:30Tried to find the time
16:33To take a look
16:36Around the other side
16:40You'll see grass much greener
16:45But life's always sweeter
16:48When your heart beats thankful
16:52When your heart beats thankful
16:57When your heart beats thankful
17:02I'm dying for
17:06I'm dying for
17:06Oh
17:08Thank you so much
17:15That's what's best
17:15Holy shit
17:17We did it
17:17We did it y'all
17:19Woo
17:20Thank y'all so much
17:21Make some noise for Baltimore's own
17:26Brittany Spencer y'all
17:28Thank you
17:28Thank you
17:29Thank you
17:30Thank you
17:32Thank you
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