Ciara used to keep her love life private, preferring to keep the intimate details of her relationships not only out of the press, but out of her music as well. But on the singer’s new self-titled album, she’s finally done hiding.
“I feel like sometimes you can be so private and so guarded, you prevent yourself from really discovering yourself or things period,” she told Radio.com. “So I’m in the mental state of not overthinking things, living my life for me, letting go and letting things be what they are. And I’m learning that that’s the best thing that I could have possibly done.”
Ciara worked with her boyfriend Future on the album. Though it’s not the first time she’s worked with someone she was dating, it is the first time that she’s willing to talk about it. Once she got in the studio with her beau, she realized how easy it was to balance the personal side and the professional side of their relationship.
“Your love is there. Your love is love,” she explained. “It’s pure and it’s what it is. You just do what organically feels right creatively. And if anything, you have such a special relationship that is love based, it kind of just makes the whole music making process more special in itself.”
But fans shouldn’t assume every song was written about Future. The singer says the album was actually inspired by the many components of love. There’s sexual exploration on “Read My Lips,” the you’re-better-off-without-him feeling after a much needed breakup on the Nicki Minaj-assisted “I’m Out” and undying love on “Where You Go,” which was originally Future’s track that he not so willingly gave to his girl. “I ginked it from him,” she said with a smile. Future did agree to appear on the song though, using his unique singing voice to complement Ciara’s sweet vocals.
