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" When she was only 16, Minnesota native Auburn Williams began posting songs on her MySpace. Listeners loved her sound and she quickly racked up over 1 million plays! Her MySpace stardom led to her first album, Same Giirl, under independent label FS Music. Before she knew it, Auburn had toured over 20 cities as an opening act for Keyshia Cole and was approached by a major label, Beluga Heights (think Jason Derulo and Iyaz!). Its producer, J.R. Rotem, loved Auburn and signed her as the first female artist on the label. Talk about girl power! Auburn chatted with Seventeen about her inspirations and her single, &amp;quot;La La La.&amp;quot; Check out what Auburn had to tell us and watch her lyric video here! 17: Can you tell us about the process behind recording your new song &amp;quot;La La La?&amp;quot; Auburn: There is a very interesting story behind &amp;quot;La La La.&amp;quot; That is the only song out of all the other songs that you hear that may have a different sound because that&amp;#039;s the only time I didn&amp;#039;t write. I write all my songs. 17: What&amp;#039;s your favorite of the songs you&amp;#039;ve written? A: &amp;quot;Maybe.&amp;quot; It was more inspirational. It was a different sound. I had goofy songs and also inspirational ones. I grew up listening to gospel, so my songs have a little bit of depth to them. I put up &amp;quot;Maybe&amp;quot; and I was just speaking from a personal relationship with God. I don&amp;#039;t call it gospel &amp;#039;cause I&amp;#039;m not preaching to anybody in the song. I&amp;#039;m literally just expressing myself and my relationship with God. 17: How did listeners react to that? A: People really connected with it. The response wasn&amp;#039;t just &amp;quot;Oh, this sounds great.&amp;quot; They gave me reasons and we had this emotional connection. That&amp;#039;s how it started. I started to ask for that type of input, &amp;#039;cause then I knew the type of things that they actually connected with. They respected the music a little bit more because of it. 17: Who are your musical inspirations? A: I thought I was Aliyah for a minute. I had this stage where I just wore baggy pants and had that swoop over my eye. You could not tell me I was not Aliyah. 17: What can we expect from your new album? A: You can expect different. You can expect something that can either inspire you, you can relate to, something funny. My sound is so everywhere that I used to call it weird. I&amp;#039;m trying to find a different term for it. At the end of the day, the main thing that I want girls to understand is that I&amp;#039;m just a girl too and I&amp;#039;m young. The same way they&amp;#039;re learning, I&amp;#039;m learning too. I want to be seen as someone they can possibly look up to, but I don&amp;#039;t want to be labeled as this role model figure, &amp;#039;cause I&amp;#039;m not perfect and I don&amp;#039;t want to let anybody down because of it. I just want them to see that I&amp;#039;m new to this. I want my fans to grow with me. It&amp;#039;s an experience that I&amp;#039;m trying to include everybody in. 17: Do you have advice for girls who want a career in music? A: Stick to who you are. Don&amp;#039;t let anyone change that. You can only change so much of it, but make sure you&amp;#039;re still you. At the end of the day, no matter what, no one can tell me that my sound is gone and that I&amp;#039;m not me. And if they are saying it, chances are they don&amp;#039;t know me personally. So my advice would just be, be you. Have fun with it. Don&amp;#039;t forget that you&amp;#039;re still human. Have you heard &amp;quot;La La La?&amp;quot; Are you excited for Auburn&amp;#039;s album? Tell us in the comments! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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