What song was the hardest for you to open up in? It’s nothing more potent than that-your truth. It was always songwriters and music that was like, “This would sound good in Omarion’s register, so here.” From that point up until this point, I feel a lot more connected to speaking about stuff that’s personal to me. On one hand, starting as young as I did, there were always waves prepared for me. It always hasn’t been like that for me, though. I pull from my personal experiences and the things I witness. When making songs about relationships, do you feel like they’re most effective when they’re autobiographical or just if they touch on subjects everyone can relate to? Any music that moves me, it truly has this emotion inside of it that forces you to lose control and move to the beat. Most people would probably categorize it as dance music. For this new project, Reasons, there’s definitely a lot of movement. That’s how I’m able to relate words to the sound. That, for me, will always exist in correlation to lyrics. There is a marriage between movement and sound. Do you think there’s still room for dance routines in heartfelt music or do they function better separately now? Your foundation is in joining choreography with fairly serious songs. When I wake up I put on certain songs.Ī lot of popular dances are seen as silly or for kids. Even now when we play music around the house, I make it a part of their life regimen. I think because I am a musician, they’ll definitely have an innate connection to music. I ask my son what he thinks and even though he’s two, if I see him moving I know. Yeah I play all my new songs fresh from the kitchen. Have your kids influenced the music you absorb? My daughter is six and she puts me onto songs I had no idea about. After having my kids, I definitely feel way more intense.
When you see that, it really changes something inside of you. I saw my children being born and recognizing what they call a miracle. When I became a father, I think that my understanding of what love was and my connection to that emotion shifted. That’s what has given me a bigger appreciation for all creativity. I think they’re all blank canvases and you have to approach them with the right intention more than following a certain algorithm. You’ve had hits that both cater to your dance roots and ones that are transparent emotionally. It’s just making sure all the proper ingredients are in there. One thing is for sure, when you create in the spirit of whatever it is you’re creating and you have the intention to share, give multiple perspectives, and the dialogue is the correct way, for me, that’s been my process.
That particular time when I first heard the beat, Mustard was going through a series of beats and that’s the one I picked. With “Post To Be” being the most successful song of your career, does that influence how you approach songwriting and song making going forward?ĭefinitely.
Especially if you don’t really know how to acquire certain things. Life isn’t a store where you just go in and be like “Oh, Ima get that.” It’s a process. Have those goals you set changed over time?įor sure, because sometimes when you see certain things you really don’t understand the steps that it takes to really obtain it. So as I continue to grow as an artist, it’s like ‘How many hours you putting in?’ That’s really the separation of the greats and people that kinda do it as a hobby. That’s how it’s always been for me: repetition and acquiring a certain level of skill. Like, if you wanna be great you have to set these kind of standards. I’ve always had that personality that nothing was never good enough. Experience has really gave me the great fortune of understanding the importance of living in the now, It’s really about truth to me. When I think about growth, in the past, maybe when I wasn’t as experienced as I could be. Omarion : For me it’s really about information.
Interviewer : As a young person who has been around for almost 20 years, how do you continue to transform yourself for the better? The album has sold over 758,000 copies in the United States since its release. O received a third and final release with, “I’m Tryna”. The second single “Touch”, peaked at #94 on the Billboard Hot 100. The first single peaked at #27 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. On February 22, 2005, Omarion released his debut solo album O which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts.