“Because you always remember ,” Kinney adds with a rueful chuckle. I truly just enjoy writing songs, and for a while, I almost wanted to keep it safe from the world - like, ‘This is my thing, and it doesn't matter if people like it or not.’ I think there's also a sense for me, just like with my acting, that I'm so at the mercy of people accepting it or not accepting it. “Even though I've like written all these songs, I sometimes think, ‘Am I not like a real songwriter, somehow?’ I don't know why I've gotten that in my head. “I feel like that song is like a prayer of some kind, that I just have to keep staying on my little track of making my songs,” Kinney explains. I would rather have my goals be something like ‘be better at guitar.’ I feel like that would be more satisfying.” “There are times when I even wonder, ‘Wait - do I want to be skinny? Do I actually care if I'm five pounds thinner? Or have I been brainwashed?’ Unfortunately, it's hard for me sometimes to know if I care that I look prettier or ‘better’ or younger, or if that is just constantly being fed to me,” Kinney continues. Like, why is the measurement of my worth?’ “And then I just started to feel like, ‘This is ridiculous.’ One of the lines in that song is ‘let the world grow while I'm shrinking,’ and that's so ridiculous. Truly, I was weighing myself really often - and if I'd gained a few pounds, it'd ruin my day,” she confesses. “I remember when I wrote ‘Skinny,’ the question that I was having in my head was many times coming back to this control thing. Kinney says it’s all too easy her for to become obsessive and feel like she’s in competition with some idealized version of herself. I mean, I'm making self-tapes for auditions every day.” You notice if there's changes - what you think of as ‘better’ - every single day. And so, I start to think, ‘Well, what can I fix?’ If you go out on several auditions and you don't get them, you think, ‘What can I tweak to be better, to somehow to be more competitive?’ … And being an actor, or being onstage all the time, you can't help but look at yourself. ![]() … There's not a lot that you can control about whether or not someone picks you. When it comes to disordered eating or distorted body image, a sense of not being in control is often at the crux of the matter, and Kinney points out that in show business, “It also has something to do with your work and your ability to work. And in a way, I feel like my music is my way of like making myself my own lead - the lead of my album.” I find myself at the mercy of the push and pull and the ups and downs of getting a job, or not getting a job. … And I do feel like so much of my acting career feels very out of control. ![]() It's influenced how I process relationships, how I'm able to be present or not present. It has influenced the relationships that I have. Kinney says The Supporting Character, which she wrote while experiencing an “epiphany” following Wilson's death, is told “through the perspective of analyzing different things about my life, through the lens of being an actor - because I do feel my auditioning and my work as an actor has shaped my life in a very specific way. On the brutally honest folk-pop ballad, Kinney, also known for her work on Masters of Sex, Conviction, and Ten Days in the Valley, confesses: “I wanna be skinny, let my bones show/Let the world grow while I am shrinking/I wanna be beautiful, I’m constantly in fear.” At point, she even chastises herself, “You’re a smart, pretty catch, quite a winner/If you were just a few pounds thinner.” “Like, even close friends have reached out specifically about ‘Skinny.’ And it's interesting, because I wasn't anticipating that, actually,” Kinney muses to Yahoo Entertainment/ SiriusXM Volume. Or, as she notes, “I always think my more love-song-type things will catch on.” But it is in fact the body-image rumination “Skinny” that has elicited the most feedback from fans. She’d assumed it would be “I Went Looking for You,” which she wrote after she attended the 2018 funeral of actor Scott Wilson (who played her father on The Walking Dead). Actress and singer-songwriter Emily Kinney didn’t expect “Skinny” to be the track off her deeply personal new album, The Supporting Character, that would garner the most attention.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |