Inspire Entertainment Magazine Spring 2014 - Vol. 4 | Page 15

Dealing With Setbacks
Holliday: Haven't a lot of us just missed at a
lot of things and thought that we wouldn't
have another chance at it? So we give up early. So in the process of recording this album,
which took me a long time, again I'm met
with setbacks and trying to get it out. I had
many missed release dates because of so
many things in the way. I have
health challenges, I have life challenges, just
like everyone else. So I think I wanted to
mainly just say to people that this album is a
return for me, but it's more so of how we want
to win at life. So yes, you have near misses in
love, but does that mean you give up on love
entirely? Does that mean you give up on life
entirely?
Returning To The Recording Studio
Holliday: It was very difficult. When I first went in, my
producer — he's a young man, about 20-something years
younger than me — and he said, "Jennifer, what's wrong?" I
said, "They're disrespecting me!" And he said, "What do you
mean?" I said, "They don't have the tape up! They don't
have anything ready!" He said, "Jennifer, everything goes
into this Pro Tools now." I said, "I don't need
my voice fixed! What do you mean Pro Tools? I don't need
to be tuned or anything!" They said, "No, no, calm down."
So now my whole future is in a little box in a safe.

Wisdom: Stay To The End
Holliday: A lot of times we base everything just on our
immediate circumstance. We don't see a big picture for
our lives. We don't love ourselves. We don't have a way
of kind of gauging the future, so we count it lost. Which
is what I think is with the young people. Because they
get so much so quick now. So they go, "OK, well it can't
get no better than this. Let's just chuck away life. Let's just kill ourselves. Let's destroy because it can't
get no better than this. I've already had sex. I've already had drugs. I've already lost a job. I've already
seen my parents get divorced. What else is there left?" But there is life left. Something that we don't
even know is ahead of us. Don't try to figure out the ending of the movie. Stay to see it. Don't try to
figure out how the book ends, because it takes different twists and turns. Just because I'm a singer
doesn't mean I'm better than someone else. That doesn't mean that the gift that I have is better than
your gift. Let's find out what your gift is! And I tell people my favorite thing is: It'll get greater later,
but you gotta stick around to see your life turn around. Amen!
Holliday’s new CD, “The Song Is You” is in stores now.