Bridget Kelly is our kind of gal.
In an industry where artists are more industry trained then they are musically trained, the New York native was a breath of fresh air, simply because she pulled no punches, not a single one! During our EXCLUSIVE GIANTLife.com interview, the Irish and Bahamian chanteuse dialied in from a well-deserved mini vacay out in La La (that’s L.A for those not hip with the new lingo) to talk about her new project “Something Different”
We chopped it up with the Roc Nation singer/songwriter about everything from her Tequila induced phone calls to former flings, working with K.Dot and that teeny, tiny, Grammy-award winning song Frank Ocean swindled right from under her. You see, Bridget is way too cool to be politically correct, when she can just keep it real. I guess that’s why they call her BK.
Bridget Kelly ladies and gents.
GIANTLife.com: Before we get into your music, answer this: who Is Bridget Kelly when no one is looking?
BK: Bridget Kelly is a boy in a dress! I wear sneakers I’m a gym rat. I love going to the gym. I love watching football on Sundays. I’m a nerd. I love animal planet. If I wasn’t doing music, I’d be a marine biologist because that’s what I wanted to go to school for. I had one moment in my life where I was not going to do music and give up and that was when my dad passed away. I told myself that I would go to school, get a college degree and make my mom happy and study marine biology, but here I am!
GIANTLife.com: Okay, so the first time I heard of you was when you did the Frank Ocean “Thinking About Forever” cover. Frank Ocean is such a great writer. What made you want to cover that song?
BK: Oddly enough, the history behind that song isn’t widely known. “Thinking About Forever” was actually written for me! He wrote the song for me during a writing camp that my label put together and that was the first song that we came up with. It was a song with my producer and written as a Bridget Kelly record. He was very attached to it and it became a political war between the label and him. But Frank is a rebel against all odds and so he rebelled and flipped my label the bird and put his demo out. Rather than just have it be a lose-lose, I said it’s important to him, Its something that matters. Obviously, it’s filled with emotion. I’m not going to strip him of that, but I’m not going to have a pissing contest with an artist I respect. That’s what it really came down to. The song is such a great song. It’s so well written, it’s so catchy and so melodic. I hold no gripes or qualms about it. But what I will say is that he owes me a record [LAUGHS]