Chloe Bailey is a star on the rise.
The 23-year-old pop star’s armed with phenomenal talent, star power, and a mentor that every aspiring pop artist could ever hope to have: Beyonce herself.
In a recent appearance on the Spout podcast, Chloe opened up about the incredible advice that Queen Bey has given her over the years. Check it out:
“You know, something that she continues to remind me of is to trust my gut and my instinct and my voice and what I love is that she’s always asking me, ‘What do you want to do?’
And even before she even gives me her advice, she’d be like, ‘What do you want?’ And then I’m like, well, what do you think? Because she has so much expertise and she’s been exactly where I’ve been and anything she says honestly I’ll listen to.
I think anyone will, I mean it’s Queen B.”
Agreed, Chloe. Agreed.
She also dished on her new song, “Have Mercy,” revealing what it means to her:
“It was definitely a response to what everyone has said about me whether good or bad. And it’s me taking back my body and just finding all of the beautiful things about it and feeling confident…
It took us like less than an hour and everything we talked about was how people see me in this different light, and now that may not understand me, but it’s all right.”
Last month, Chloe talked addressed fan comments about her showing “so much skin” in the music video for “Have Mercy.” During an Instagram Q&A session, she stated:
“Because I can. It’s my body, and I’m so proud of it, and I hope you’re proud of yours, too.”
She elaborated on that during an interview she had with MTV News:
“Men can glorify ass in their videos, I want to do it with this in a really artful, fun, beautiful way. And I think it’s so great how women can claim their ownership of their bodies and not let the world do it. We get to do it in the way that we want to, and it was really fun.
I felt pretty good on the shoot days, and I look back, and I’m like, ‘that’s not the same person right here,’ but it was fun in the moment.”
