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"Pretty Girl Era" singer LU KALA (@igobylu) in the Q&A Room after performing at the JUNO Opening Night Awards in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This video is only available for editorial use in all media and worldwide. To ensure compliance and proper licensing of this video, please contact us. ©MaximoTV
"Pretty Girl Era" singer LU KALA (@igobylu) in the Q&A Room after performing at the JUNO Opening Night Awards in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This video is only available for editorial use in all media and worldwide. To ensure compliance and proper licensing of this video, please contact us. ©MaximoTV
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00:00 (chimes)
00:02 - Talking about practice.
00:04 - Hi.
00:07 - Can I take it off?
00:08 - You can take it off.
00:10 You're the artist.
00:10 - Hello.
00:11 - Awesome, so I'm gonna open up the bar right there.
00:15 Hi there.
00:18 Oh, sorry, over here.
00:19 - I just found my glasses.
00:20 Let me, let me.
00:21 - Okay, hi, Jonathan Gordon with TikTok.
00:23 - Hi.
00:23 - First of all, congratulations on everything.
00:25 - Thank you.
00:26 - I just wanna say first off,
00:26 "Hotter Now," best song by far in my opinion.
00:29 Was that inspired in any way by "Stronger"
00:32 from Kelly Clarkson?
00:34 - It actually wasn't.
00:35 Shout out Kelly Clarkson though.
00:38 But it was kind of like, that's a famous phrase.
00:41 And we were like, how do you like revamp the phrase
00:43 and make it different?
00:44 I think we've heard the "Stronger" one like over and over,
00:47 which is fire.
00:48 But I was like, I'm hotter.
00:50 I'm a pretty girl, airy girl.
00:51 So we're gonna be hotter now.
00:52 And I think when we hit that, it felt like really neat.
00:56 And we wrote that song.
00:57 - Thank you.
00:58 - No problem.
00:59 - Thank you.
01:00 - Hey Lou, Howard Druckman from So Can.
01:01 Nice to see you again.
01:02 - Hi.
01:03 - I just wanted to ask, I mean,
01:04 you are really coming into your own right now
01:08 and a lot of stuff is happening.
01:10 And I know that it's only gonna inspire you to do more
01:15 and to do more and to go further and to go further.
01:17 Can you talk a little bit about that sort of
01:18 relentless ambition that you have?
01:20 - I have to keep working.
01:22 Like I have no choice than,
01:24 it'd be nice if the ride was easy,
01:27 but you know, I'm a black woman.
01:28 I make pop music.
01:29 There's not a lot of me out there,
01:31 especially making like mainstream pop music.
01:33 But you know, the journey has been really cool
01:36 and it just shows me how much I want it
01:38 because I keep going no matter what hurdles come in my way.
01:42 - Thank you.
01:44 - No problem.
01:45 - Right there.
01:45 - Hi there.
01:46 My name is Hilary LeBlanc.
01:47 I'm with Black Planet Media.
01:49 Obviously you just performed your song, Pretty Girl, Airy,
01:51 which is just, you know,
01:51 chair chopping and doing amazing.
01:53 And I see you as, you know, black woman, body confident,
01:56 all of this radiant positivity.
01:58 And you're stunning.
01:59 What do you think the next era is for Pretty Girl era?
02:03 What do you think the next thing is going to be that women,
02:05 black women reclaim as their own?
02:07 - Ooh, that's a deep question.
02:10 Well,
02:12 Beyonce,
02:13 I love that she's having a very new,
02:16 amazing moment right now.
02:17 And she just dropped country music.
02:19 And I don't know if you saw her post,
02:20 but it spoke about wanting to live in a time where
02:23 black people can drop whatever kind of music
02:25 and be whatever genre they want to be.
02:28 And it's not like a whole thing because you're a black and
02:31 you're in a genre and a space that a lot of times the gates
02:33 have been closed.
02:35 So I don't know.
02:36 I think like our next era is us getting to just be
02:39 ourselves and not having to fight to live up to the whole
02:43 community. Of course I want all of us to win.
02:44 Like, don't get that wrong.
02:46 I want all of us to win,
02:47 but it'd be nice for me to be up here as just Lukala.
02:49 But right now I feel like I'm up here as Lukala and every
02:53 black artist that wants to do something outside of the box.
02:57 I hope I explained it a little bit.
02:58 - Absolutely. Amen. Thank you.
02:59 - Thank you.
03:00 - Hello, Rudy Blair Entertainment Media,
03:04 Rudy Blair media.com.
03:06 - Oh, hi Rudy.
03:07 - How you doing?
03:08 - Good, how are you?
03:09 - I am good.
03:10 - One of my first interviewers.
03:12 - And we had a deep conversation,
03:14 which was at Legacy Awards.
03:15 - Yes.
03:16 - And you were honored there.
03:18 - I was.
03:19 - How did it feel from,
03:22 cause we had a deep conversation several years ago at
03:24 Canadian Music Week.
03:25 And I remember some of the things that you were talking
03:28 about and what you wanted to achieve and where you wanted
03:31 to go.
03:32 Legacy Awards, you're honored there today with nominations
03:36 and being honored again in such an amazing way.
03:39 I mean, to be on that stage is an honor.
03:42 What do you think it was when they said, no, you said yes.
03:45 What did you do to make sure that yes became reality?
03:48 - Wow. Y'all trying to make people cry today?
03:51 (audience laughing)
03:53 Is it rude that I'm not like, sorry.
03:55 I'm looking over to ask the question.
03:57 I don't know.
04:00 I've always been really relentless and like,
04:02 I've always only focused on plan A.
04:04 Everybody else was like, don't you have a plan B?
04:06 Like, don't you want to go to college?
04:07 Nothing wrong with college, but no girl,
04:09 I'm going to make it in what I want to make it in.
04:10 And I knew if I focused on anything else that that would
04:13 take me away.
04:15 And it just feels really good to be in a space and time
04:17 right now where I am being recognized for my hard work.
04:22 Did I answer your question?
04:24 - You said your question.
04:26 - Okay, fine.
04:26 (laughing)
04:28 - Hello, girl.
04:29 Look how long.
04:30 - Hi.
04:31 - Hello.
04:32 My name is Miki from CSU 89.1 FM in Ottawa.
04:36 So basically, okay.
04:38 Just so you know, your song "Hotter Now"
04:40 is actually my alarm clock.
04:41 - Oh, I love to see it.
04:43 You wake up hotter now.
04:45 - Yeah, that's what I do.
04:47 But anyway, so I have a message from my program director,
04:53 Siti Fidelia, he's actually--
04:55 - Oh, hi, Siti.
04:56 - Say hi to you.
04:57 And also my question to you is that,
04:59 what is your best memory in this music journey?
05:02 Musical journey?
05:03 - Oh, best memory.
05:06 - Yeah.
05:07 - I think like one of my best memories is,
05:13 you know, I've been,
05:15 I think a lot of people think that this is all overnight.
05:16 It is absolutely not overnight.
05:19 I am not a plant.
05:20 I'm having to grow on this tree for a minute.
05:22 But I think one of my best memories is
05:24 being backstage at the Billboard Music Awards
05:30 and SZA literally running up to me
05:32 and singing my song to me.
05:33 She sang pretty early to me.
05:34 And that was kind of amazing
05:35 'cause it felt like there was a bridge happening
05:38 where like the people that I'm such massive fans are,
05:42 some of them know who I am.
05:43 And just like also finding out
05:45 that I had three top 10s last year on radio.
05:47 That's pretty fire.
05:48 (audience laughing)
05:49 - Woo-hoo, thank you.
05:49 And congratulations once again.
05:51 - Thank you.
05:52 - Thank you.
05:53 - Thank you.
05:53 - Hi, Amanda from Stingray Music.
05:55 - Hi.
05:56 - Congratulations on all your success this year
05:58 and your amazing collaboration.
06:01 We would like to know who would you
06:02 would like to work with next?
06:04 - Oh, I love that question.
06:06 Well, I mentioned SZA, so like, duh,
06:09 like give me the call sis.
06:11 I'm gonna hop on very quickly.
06:13 There's a lot of people I'm a fan of,
06:15 like Rihanna, I'm her number one.
06:17 I am the Navy, it's me.
06:19 So whenever she's ready to drop music,
06:21 I will be on it.
06:22 You know, Cardi B, let's do a Nicki.
06:25 Like I wanna have a good time with music.
06:27 And I think there's some other cool collaborators
06:29 I've like never really thought about
06:31 that I think would be cool.
06:32 Like there's some cool Canadian people.
06:33 I love talk, we are friends and who knows,
06:36 maybe we'll do something together.
06:37 But I'm just open to make the best music that I can.
06:39 - Ladies and gentlemen, Lou Kala.
06:42 (audience applauding)
06:45 - Awesome, let's continue watching the show.
06:50 - It's really good, like TSN right now.
06:52 (audience laughing)
06:55 - What are these questions?
06:58 - Thank you to Entel Records.
07:00 Thanks so much.
07:01 (whooshing)