Kenzie Ziegler by no means supposed for her new single to be successful — in truth, she by no means deliberate to launch it.
“My therapist advised me to jot down a letter to my dad,” Ziegler explains over a current Zoom. “And I didn’t wish to do this, simply because that felt actually unusual for me. So I wrote a track only for her to listen to, and I despatched it to her and I used to be like, ‘Right here’s my letter to my dad.’”
Seems, her therapist has considerably of an ear for music.
“She was like, ‘Whoa, this track’s really actually, actually good,’” Ziegler says.
From there, she started sampling the monitor, known as “Anatomy,” with some pals earlier than lastly deciding to launch it, late final month. She twinned the discharge with a music video for the only, choreographed by her sister, Maddie Ziegler.
Kenzie, 19, admits to being nervous to launch “Anatomy,” which comes on the heels of singles like “Sickly Candy,” “100 Levels” and “Paper.”
“It’s so private and I actually didn’t wish to damage my dad’s emotions, regardless that we’re not even shut anymore,” she says of the “Anatomy” launch. “It was only a bizarre state of affairs, however I’m truthfully so completely happy that I put it out. It’s truthfully been so wonderful. The quantity of nice suggestions I’ve gotten has simply made it sort of similar to a pinch me second. It’s simply so surreal. And I simply love how so many individuals can relate to it. It’s been superior listening to different folks’s tales and it makes me really feel like I’m not alone.”
Writing a track that confirmed a less-than-perfect have a look at her life, which has been closely seen on-line since Ziegler was a child on “Dance Mothers” alongside sister Maddie.
“I believe everybody thinks that each one these people who find themselves within the business have an ideal life,” she says.
“Anatomy” marks a decidedly extra private period of songwriting for her.
“I really feel like 1692680613 I’m extra open to speak about my real-life experiences — I really feel like I’ve with all of my different songs, however I really feel like this one was tremendous, tremendous private and I simply really feel prefer it’s good to attach with folks another way,” she says.
Ziegler dabbled in music whereas nonetheless on “Dance Mothers” however wasn’t in a position to be concerned a lot within the precise strategy of songwriting till she was round 13 and was put into some songwriting courses.
“It’s a really nerve wracking factor to do, to speak about your actual life and, and put your voice on the market,” she says. “However I truthfully love what I’m doing.”
She plans to proceed to launch singles this fall, with an album on the high of subsequent yr, by way of Hollywood Information. The dream would then be to hit the street and tour, even when she does get pre-show jitters.
“I believe the one cause why I’ve stage fright is as a result of after I was youthful, I’d dance on stage each single day mainly, and I’d simply be so nervous that I used to be going to disappoint somebody. So I believe that’s positively carried on all through my life,” she says. “However truthfully, I simply strive not to take a look at the folks within the crowd. It’s a journey that I’m on for certain.”
