The growing pains of being Alessia Cara
NEW YORK (AP) — One day Alessia Cara got a request from a friend: Write a song about my breakup.
"He was like, 'Listen, I'm not a songwriter, I'm not good at writing. Could you maybe one day ... write a song about somebody falling out of love with you?'"
The concept had been in the back of Cara's mind, and when she was in a studio without a topic to write about it, she took a stab at her friend's wish.
Ten minutes later, she birthed "Out of Love," an airy, slow and personally deep song. She called the making of it "one of those weird cosmic things that just happened."
"I played it for my friend and he got very emotional and he was like, 'Thank you!' And he actually got back together with the girl after that song. It's a magic song.