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" It was an hour before the Hey Monday concert in NYC, and the band members were testing the equipment and doing warm-ups. But Cassadee Pope, the spunky lead singer and only girl in the band, was buttoning her electric-yellow vest, lacing up her tennis shoes, and chatting with Seventeen! She dished to us about falling off the stage, her shoe fetish, breakup advice, and more! 17: You&amp;#039;re just barely out of high school. Was being the lead singer in a band your dream growing up? CP: I started taking voice lessons when I was four. My sister was the reason I got into it \u2014 she took voice lessons before me, and I kind of just followed in her footsteps. Ever since then, I knew I had to sing for a living. It was also about hanging out with the right people, meeting the right people, being friends with the friends in my band right now. I would definitely be in college right now if it weren&amp;#039;t for this, so I&amp;#039;m really happy it worked out. 17: What&amp;#039;s a funny or embarrassing moment that&amp;#039;s happened on stage?  CP: I&amp;#039;ve had a bunch of embarrassing moments where my mic cord will fall out of my microphone, so now I tape the cord. I&amp;#039;ve also tripped on stage; one time I almost fell off stage; and one time I was pulled off stage by the crowd! But I like when stuff like that happens. Not at the moment, but looking back, I learn and grow from those times. Or maybe I&amp;#039;m just clumsy, I don&amp;#039;t know. 17: What&amp;#039;s it like being the only girl in the band? CP: The guys are all my best friends and brothers. I&amp;#039;ve known them all for so long, and I&amp;#039;ve been through so much with each of them individually, it would be really weird to date any of them or think of any of them in that way. Everything they&amp;#039;ve done that&amp;#039;s embarrassing or that they might not want girls to see, I&amp;#039;ve seen. Like them being gross around each other, talking about bodily fluids. 17: What&amp;#039;s your beauty must-have? CP: Definitely foundation. I&amp;#039;ve got a lot of freckles, so it tends to make my face look very uneven, the color of it. I use L&amp;#039;Or\u00E9al foundation \u2014 it looks like lip gloss, but it&amp;#039;s foundation in a tube. It&amp;#039;s not cakey, and it&amp;#039;s not powdery, so it stays on all day. And I love sparkly black eyeshadow. 17: How would you describe your personal style? CP: Pretty casual, most of the time. On stage I like to wear jeans and I&amp;#039;m really into cool, different-colored vests and fringe vests. Sometimes I wear dresses, but I usually don&amp;#039;t wear them on stage because I like to jump around a lot. And I love shoes, like High-tops, especially from Creative Recreation and Reebok. 17: Hey Monday has a lot of songs about heartbreak. What&amp;#039;s some of your best advice for getting over a breakup? CP: Don&amp;#039;t be afraid to not be OK. For a lot of people, when they get upset about something, they keep it bottled up, and that&amp;#039;s the worst thing you can do. It&amp;#039;s OK to go into your room and cry and listen to a song that you know will make you cry, and just let it all out. Just know that it&amp;#039;s not the end of the world. There&amp;#039;s always a light at the end of the tunnel. 17: What would you tell girls who are aspiring singers? CP: A lot of times, girls get lost in the mix, so people don&amp;#039;t take us seriously. Find your niche! Surround yourself by really great people who are in it because they want you to be successful, not because they want to make money off of it. And have fun! Hey Monday&amp;#039;s music includes quite a range: everything from slow love ballads to upbeat tracks that instantly put you in a good mood. For tour dates, songs, and more, check out their Myspace at myspace.com/heymonday! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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