San Antonio, Texas, native Austin Mahone is reconnecting together with his roots on A Lone Star Story, and he sat down with Billboard‘s Rania Aniftos to speak about the way it all got here collectively.
“A Lone Star Story is an album I began initially of the pandemic, so it’s undoubtedly been a very long time coming,” he says of his new challenge. “It didn’t essentially take me three years to complete it, however simply because everybody was so separated and I wasn’t making an attempt to complete it on Zoom. That’s simply sort of bizarre. I really feel like my album deserves greater than that.”
The 27-year-old provides that he’s excited to indicate his nation aspect to the world. “I simply needed to do one thing that was extra genuine and actual to me, and one thing that may be totally different for everybody else,” he notes. “I might be fairly nervous [about going in a new direction] if it wasn’t nation music that I used to be meshing with. As a result of I grew up on nation music, I really feel very snug in that house, regardless that I’ve by no means carried out nation music in my life earlier than. It feels proper.”
Mahone, who gained recognition by his YouTube and Vine covers as a teen, shares that “consistency” is what allowed him to interrupt the social media star stigma and get taken severely as a musical artist. “As soon as, I had uploaded a Justin Bieber cowl of his tune ‘Mistletoe,’ and that was the one which obtained me a variety of recognition. Ryan Seacrest had it on his present and folks began choosing it up,” Mahone recollects. “From there, that’s once I was getting a bunch of calls from administration and labels.”
See the complete interview with Austin Mahone above, together with a enjoyable acoustic efficiency of his A Lone Star Story hit, “Kuntry.”
