{"id":481352,"date":"2019-01-25T11:10:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T18:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=784528"},"modified":"2019-01-25T11:10:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T18:10:28","slug":"the-first-time-alessia-cara-on-horrible-first-performance-and-the-true-meaning-of-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/the-first-time-alessia-cara-on-horrible-first-performance-and-the-true-meaning-of-popularity\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Time: Alessia Cara on \u2018Horrible\u2019 First Performance and the True Meaning of Popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/HD_AlessiaCara_TFT_DH.00_03_13_15.Still002.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/alessia-cara\/\" id=\"auto-tag_alessia-cara\" data-tag=\"alessia-cara\">Alessia Cara<\/a> is known for her hit singles: She emerged with the triple-platinum breakout \u201cHere\u201d and followed that with another triple-platinum track, \u201cWild Things.\u201d More recently, she contributed to the quintuple-platinum Logic and Khalid collaboration\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">\u201c1-800-273-8255.\u201d All that commercial success appears relatively effortless.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t always that way: The first time Cara performed in public was a minor catastrophe.\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">\u201cI went to guitar school for about ten seconds,\u201d she recalled recently during an interview for\u00a0<em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s video series \u201cThe First Time.\u201d\u00a0\u201cI went onstage and I played guitar very horribly and I sang very badly, and I remember it was like the scariest thing I\u2019ve ever done in my whole life \u2026 I remember I got offstage, and I forgot to unplug my guitar, so I knocked everything over and it was like a whole thing. Not a fun experience \u2014 but I guess a learning experience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt\u2019s on the internet too, so that\u2019s great,\u201d Cara added sarcastically. \u201cNow everybody can see it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The singer is full of similarly self-deprecating stories. At age seven, she remembered two classmates discussing the meaning of the word \u201cpopular.\u201d \u201c<span class=\"s1\">I had never heard of the word before \u2014 I was seven,\u201d Cara said. \u201cSo I was like, \u2018what does that mean?\u2019 They were like, \u2018popular means you have more than 11 friends. Are you popular?\u2019 I was like, \u2018let me think\u2019 \u2026 I tried to come up with 11 friends. I got to four, and I couldn\u2019t think of any more \u2026 they were like, \u2018nope, you\u2019re not popular!&#8217;\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But Cara ended up with the last laugh. \u201c<span class=\"s1\">Look at me now \u2014 I have so many friends,\u201d she joked. \u201cNo, I don\u2019t. But I have a lot of people who listen to my music, so I consider that popularity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cara released her second album,\u00a0<em>The Pains of Growing<\/em>, in November.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-first-time-alessia-cara-784528\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alessia Cara is known for her hit singles: She emerged with the triple-platinum breakout \u201cHere\u201d and followed that with another triple-platinum track, \u201cWild Things.\u201d More recently, she contributed to the quintuple-platinum Logic and Khalid collaboration\u00a0\u201c1-800-273-8255.\u201d All that commercial success appears relatively effortless. But it wasn\u2019t always that way: The first time Cara performed in public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 03:34:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}