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If people do not like it, the 22-year-old
musician is cool with that, saying she has quit trying to please
other people.
"I've kind of reached the point where I've realized that someone
is always going to have something negative to say...So I might
as well be myself," Jackson told Reuters.
"I hope people like it but if they don't, that's ok," she added.
"wilted," released on Friday, marks the first solo album by
Paris Jackson, who was raised by her grandmother after the
sudden death in 2009 of Michael Jackson.
The album's 11 tracks, with titles like "let down," "repair" and
"collide," reflect the emotional upheaval of her journey from
bereaved 11-year-old, through an adolescence marked by mental
health and drug issues, to young adulthood.
"Everyone has gone through heartbreak and pain in some form or
another. If my music makes one person feel acknowledged and
heard, then I've done my job," she said.
Jackson, who plays acoustic guitar, has a thriving career as a
model and has also worked as an actress. But she says creating
music has "always been a really healthy outlet for me."
Growing up she listened to a wide range of music. "There was
soul and R&B and blues and jazz and the Motown stuff... My
father also played a lot of classical music around the house,
movie soundtracks, even the radio Top 40," she said.
"But the vibe I'm kind of going for now, along with keeping the
folk roots, is a little bit more alternative and I'm taking from
bands from the early 2000s," she said.
Asked what she thought her father would say about the new album,
she said. "If I had to guess, it would probably be something
along the lines of 'I love you and I'm happy that you're
happy'."
(Reporting by Reuters Television, writing by Jill Serjeant)
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