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Victoria Monét joins Eddie Francis on Apple Music 1 to talk about her experience writing ‘SOS (Sex on Sight)’ featuring Usher. They dive into the process of how this dream collaboration came to be and Victoria teases that more music from Usher is coming very soon. The two also discuss Victoria’s very successful year, which included GRAMMYs, record-breaking success from her single ‘On My Mama’, and more. Victoria teases a deluxe version of ‘Jaguar II’ and a new era on the way.

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Video | Victoria Monét tells Apple Music about ‘SOS (Sex on Sight)’ featuring Usher, ‘Jaguar II Deluxe’ and more

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Victoria Monét tells Apple Music the meaning of ‘SOS’ and future music with Usher

Eddie Francis: You did a tribute for Usher. You have this song with Usher, ‘SOS’, which stands for?

Victoria Monét: ‘Sex On Sight’.

Eddie Francis: Talk about putting that song together and then getting the legend himself, Super Bowl performer, Usher.

Victoria Monét: Crazy. So quiet as kept, we have another song together.

Eddie Francis: Oh. Okay. When are we going to get this song?

Victoria Monét: It’s coming in the future. I don’t know when, but there’s another song. So, we were working together on that song. So he came by the studio to work more on that. And when he got there, I was working on ‘SOS’, but I just had the hook only. So, he was like, “Let me hear what you’re working on.” I was like, “Okay.” Nervous. So, I play it, and then after the hook goes off, he starts mumbling a melody. I was like, “Hmm.” And me and DJ Camper, the producer, looked at each other and we were like, “Do you want to just go in? Maybe just try some stuff?” So he goes in the booth and starts this rap part, and then he comes out and we write a few lyrics to that. And then he has to go, he’s like jet-setting somewhere else. And then he finishes his parts in Atlanta. We decide like… We were like, at one point, “Do we do both of these songs or do we have to choose one? What’s the protocol?” But it just felt so special and so organic so that we just were like, “Let’s rock with both.” Camper got his horn player on it. We just did final touches and everything, and here it is. So, I’m excited.

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Victoria Monét tells Apple Music about ‘Jaguar II’ deluxe

Eddie Francis: What’s going on with the Next Thing?

Victoria Monét: We are getting a Deluxe. Definitely a Deluxe.

Eddie Francis: What’s the deal with the Deluxe?

Victoria Monét: So, ‘SOS’ is a part of the Deluxe.

Eddie Francis: Okay.

Victoria Monét: And the Deluxe is coming very soon.

Eddie Francis: We don’t got no dates or nothing?

Victoria Monét: No, no, not yet.

Eddie Francis: Are we remixing, remastering it? Are we throwing a bunch of new songs? How are we going-

Victoria Monét: There’s new songs. It’s all new songs and working on a remix of something, but for now it’s just new ones. It could be considered like an EP because there’s at least five more songs.

Eddie Francis: Okay, well just leave it at, don’t get in trouble.

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Victoria Monét tells Apple Music about how she feels about her recent success

Eddie Francis: All your recent success as we’ve gotten to watch it, it seems so well deserved and you have this thing where everything seems so genuine with you. And what is your relationship with the people that have been championing you from the jump and who feel validated through your recent success?

Victoria Monét: It makes me not want to let them down because I know that they’ve been talking to so many people about me putting people on. A lot of times when I meet people, they’re like, “Oh, I played my boyfriend your music and he loved it.” “I introduced my friend to your music.” So, people are proud to show me off. And so it’s like we were talking about food earlier. If you tell someone that there’s a good restaurant and you take them and when you take them the food is bad, you’re like, “Dang, it used to be good though.” You want to be validated by that coastline. So I feel like I want to maintain their proudness. I want to keep striving for them. It’s for me also because I have goals and it’s my dream, but also I keep them in mind. I want to make sure that the taste in their mouth is still amazing when they bring other people to me and just keep the morale up, keep the camaraderie up, the team effort, everything that they feel when they talk about me. I just want to keep that essence.

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<h4victoria Monét tells Apple Music the most memorable goals she has achieved</h4

Eddie Francis: What are some of those goals that you have achieved that you look… Because I’m pretty sure at some point you might’ve looked at the list like, “Oh, I did that. That’s weird.” What are some of those?

Victoria Monét: Well, definitely GRAMMYs. 100%.

Eddie Francis: All right. Hold on. Come here. Everyone here.

Victoria Monét: It’s bigger.

Eddie Francis: I’m telling you, not only when you got those knobs… Look, you can look up my name and my Twitter because I got a million Victoria Monét positive tweets.

Victoria Monét: I love that.

Eddie Francis: So, when you did get those GRAMMYs, it was one of those things that everybody was like, “Whoo.” Especially considering everything you’ve been through with your career from writing and everything else. I’m looking for the tweets, but Grammys and what else?

Victoria Monét: This year I also was actually able to do a song for TV and film. I did a song for the Ending Credits of Acolyte, which is the first time Star Wars ever did an original song with a vocalist. So I’m like, “Oh my God, that’s incredible.”

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Victoria Monét tells Apple Music her thoughts about how fans enjoy her music

Eddie Francis: It’s one of those records where even as you’re saying it’s not processing for people like what you’re saying, the song, and we’re going to go there. I’ve never heard someone sing Nick so sweetly. When you write these records, what’s going there? And are you aware of the fact that people aren’t always catching the full context of what you’re saying in the way that you’re singing it and the way that the music is presented?

Victoria Monét: I’m definitely aware people aren’t catching it because fans on Twitter will be like, “Oh, my grandma loves your music.” I’m like, “I’m sure she has no idea what I’m saying. She loves the music, she loves the horns, she loves the melody, but she not picking up what I’m putting down. So please don’t let her listen too much.” But I do operate in a alter ego space in music. For example, my record, Alright, when I wrote it, I very much was not in the club single at the time. It’s just kind of something that I can imagine. I was not far off postpartum, a little bit out of my body because there was so many changes. So I kind of use music as a portal to be elsewhere. But I mean, I do speak like this with my friends too, so it’s just my tone of voice, is softer. So as I wouldn’t go to the grocery store and be like, “Thanks men.” But my friends, when we’re being silly and stuff, the language still does come out. So, it’s not foreign for me to speak this. It’s just maybe in normal settings I wouldn’t.

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Victoria Monét tells Apple Music about how she dealt with fame while becoming a mother

Eddie Francis: Something else I want to touch on, you talked about postpartum, you started reaching the height of your fame, being a new mom. What was that experience like?

Victoria Monét: I was actually really pleasantly surprised because I definitely got pregnant in the pandemic, which in addition to the normal concerns that come along with motherhood and becoming pregnant, the world was having issues that we didn’t know what music looked like or live performance looked like, or streaming, how to promote music in the different ways or do photo shoots all the things that help you promote music weren’t available. And then the actual danger of getting sick. So I’m incubated and protective and all of the appointments were by myself. So to give birth and then after that write one of my favourite songs is just like, “God, really.”

Eddie Francis: Beautiful song.

Victoria Monét: Thank you. Thank you so much. Just God was really like, “You don’t know much, just follow me. I got it.” You know what I mean? “Just lean on your passions. Do what your heart says to do, and don’t worry about everything else. I’m going to orchestrate it so it works out.” And I think that’s what’s happening.

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