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Why Skylar Grey Can’t Even Define What Type Of Music She Makes · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Derived from Hollywood. Singer songwriter Skylar Gray is a tough
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Speaker 1: artist for critics to label. Just looking at her Wikipedia bio,
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Speaker 1: it lists her genres as pop, hip hop, rock, and electronic,
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Speaker 1: and Skyler herself admits she even has a hard time
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Speaker 1: defining what she does musically. She tells American songwriter I
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Speaker 1: don't feel like I've ever really figured it out with
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Speaker 1: finding a groove of my own. I feel like I'm
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Speaker 1: constantly exploring and evolving. And she thinks that's largely because
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Speaker 1: she grew up surrounded by all types of creativity, adding,
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Speaker 1: I grew up in a very eclectic musical family, and
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Speaker 1: I did a lot of musical theater. I took dance classes.
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Speaker 1: My mom and my stepdad owned an art gallery up
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Speaker 1: in Oregon and are both visual artists as well. I
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Speaker 1: grew up in just like this creative environment. Skyler has
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Speaker 1: been expressing that creativity by dropping a new song every
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Speaker 1: Friday for a month straight. The latest, make It Through
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Speaker 1: the Day, is out today. That's direct from Hollywood