Steph Claire Smith
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I think it just – yeah, it just made me sad because she was 19 when she started to blow up over there.
And, I mean, we all discover ourselves in our 20s, right?
I feel like we all try on different versions of ourselves until we find what kind of fits.
And I think particularly in an art like music, you're – unless you're like so hell-bent and sure on like one particular type –
There's a huge area to play in and she was really big on like not like being... She didn't like being put in a box or like being defined in that way.
So she really did explore kind of more indie music and all of this sort of stuff.
But everything she explored, she basically got shit for.
At the same time, had a huge fan base and like a lot of people did love her.
But one thing I found really sad in the doc was...
Even to this day, I think there's still this insecurity about her voice.
And she even said, like, I know I'm not like, you know, my voice isn't sent from heaven or whatever.
Like, it's obviously something that at an early stage, she was told she wasn't even a great singer.
And through her entire career, that voice has still been so loud to the point that she ended up getting to play...
at Glastonbury, perform at Glastonbury, which was something she was going to do when she was younger and then it was when she got cancer and had to pull out.
She ended up doing that much later in life in her career and she, like, she says in the show that when she was on that stage, that was the moment that she, like, was like, oh, you've really done it?
that was the most like 20 through like 20 years after of like having such an incredible career but it just goes to show like no matter what your success looks like externally or what other people might think of you unfortunately there are some things that can be said that we hold on to as an insecurity that can honestly take decades to shake if you ever actually get to shake them and
I feel like she – I feel like there's still something in the back of her mind that like she wouldn't confidently say like I'm an amazing singer or whatever.
Do you know what I mean?
Like even she said – like she said it in an opposite way of like, you know when you parcel a compliment that doesn't really sound very strong?