Emma Nissen

I was opening for him with Adam Blackstone

Straight up, just, I had a runny nose, didn't think it through.

My body took over and I wiped my nose right before shaking his hand.

And everybody, we all just like, it was like time stopped.

And I was like, oh, there's snot on my head.

And like brought attention to it.

It was horrible.

It was awkward.

Everybody hated it.

My dad was like, no, you've ruined this.

And I was like, well, whatever.

And so now at my shows, I'm like, I just got to tell you.

I'm not any cooler than you just because I'm up here.

I have snot on my hand when I see John Legend.

So it's like, I don't know.

I just think being authentic is so much more relatable than what you think people want you to be or what you think people want to be, you know?

Yeah, I think genres really come down to like identifiable community.

But so like when my music gets lobbed into the Christian genre, which technically it is, because we talk about spirituality, we talk about, you know, Christ and a lot of themes in Christianity.

Um, but I have a lot of listeners and a lot of, you know, people that have discovered my music that either aren't religious at all.

I know.