Alexis: Yes, that song was about the end of a
relationship I had … Nobody tells you, nobody gives you a hand book and says when do you walk away from a relationship, it’s always talked about sticking it through, til death do us part and all that sort of stuff that we are fed on but no one tells us when something’s just not good for us and its time to walk away. So that song’s about that in the literary sense, in the broad sense it’s about… whether it’s a job or a way of life that you’ve been living, knowing when its just not working for you and its not good, you’ve given it a first try, a second try a thirteenth try (we laugh) and its not working for you and its just learning when its okay to move on. And I’ve had to do that in various places in my life, I’ve had to accept that its time to make a change, you know, and step in another
direction and that’s what the songs about. And hopefully you’ve been able to do it in a way that is mature and you’re not carrying the residual ….
Kix: So it’s about positive change?
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Alexis: Exactly.
Kix: Do you write all your songs yourself? Alexis: Yes, every song on the
that I wanted like a
Stevie, or an Aretha or a Chaka … So then I was lying in bed on a Sunday morning … that song just came into my head
Alexis Houston LWMB Acoustic Performance
love myself and she brings that to the table and I thought yeah go fit, I wish I wrote that! (she laughs).
Kix: Would you like to
collaborate with your sister and work on music together? Alexis: I’d like to write stuff for her! (She laughs) …I never know what’s going to happen in the future. Right now the greatest thing for me is establishing who Alexis Houston is for myself … it took Janet and Michael a little while to get established!
(She laughs). I want to be my own person, right now the other person on the rope is so large in what I’m doing ….I don’t want to come across as anything other than just someone who’s trying to be themselves.
album I wrote myself apart from one, which is a cover of a song by ‘Deniece Williams’ called ‘Free’, produced by Sheldon Goode. I wanted the album to be my personal story but I was asked to do a cover. It was actually the last song that we recorded and a few days before we actually pressed the record, I couldn’t find the song
and out of curiosity I went to ‘You Tube’ and found the song and listened to it, and was like, ah, the lyric it works, you know. It’s about a woman in a loving relationship being herself and she’s just got to be me, and then she’s saying to her lover the only reason I can love you as much as I truly want to and can is because I’ve learned to
Kix: Do you have a plan in your mind of the next steps you want to take in your music career? Alexis: Yeah we’re gonna promote the hell out of this album! There’s a band and we have been rehearsing, we’re going to get on the road and do as many promotional appearances as we can. I want to continue writing,
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