<http://schema.org/articleBody>
" Seventeen: What prompted you to break away from Hey Monday and do a solo tour? Cassadee Pope: I&amp;#039;ve been wanting to show everyone the new songs I&amp;#039;ve been writing and I really miss playing live. A lot of people have been wanting Hey Monday to tour, but since that&amp;#039;s not really in the cards for us, I just wanted to go out and do it myself. We&amp;#039;re doing a lot of creative things with this tour. If you go to my Facebook page, we&amp;#039;re running a bunch of contests. Like, if you win a meet-and-greet, we&amp;#039;ll play an acoustic performance, and there&amp;#039;s a contest about getting to go to sound-check. It&amp;#039;s been really fun! 17: You wrote songs for Hey Monday. Is your writing process different now that it&amp;#039;s just you singing? CP: For Hey Monday, there were songs that I co-wrote with song-writers or producers, but our last EP the whole band did everything together. I&amp;#039;ve had a lot of experience with co-writes, which is basically what I&amp;#039;m doing now. I am writing things on my own, but I really believe co-writing makes you a better writer. I love writing with really experienced producers and co-writers who open my mind to things I never would have thought otherwise. We may think the same way about something, but they might say it in a way that I never would have thought to say it. I&amp;#039;m focusing more on co-writing now more than ever so that&amp;#039;s a little different, but it&amp;#039;s been awesome. 17: What are your songs about? CP: They are pretty much in the same vein as the Hey Monday stuff. That was all me lyrically. I have ventured out and written about real-life experiences that I haven&amp;#039;t gone through myself, but I&amp;#039;ve known people to go through them. In the past, I&amp;#039;ve always written about my experiences and people related to that, but there&amp;#039;s a lot of other things that I&amp;#039;ve never written about that people have gone through. I&amp;#039;m still keeping it young and edgy, but I&amp;#039;m definitely putting more of a mainstream twist to it. But I&amp;#039;ve never had super complicated lyrics anyway, so I&amp;#039;m pretty much in the same vein as before. 17: Is there a particular song that you think teen girls will relate to the most? CP: Yeah. I just released a video and chorus of a song called &amp;quot;Lunatic.&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s about saying all these things I don&amp;#039;t like about myself and then the hook is, &amp;quot;How could you love someone like this?&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s talking about how the other person is so confident and they walk so strong, but you&amp;#039;re not so sure about yourself. 17: So many people struggle with feeling confident. CP: Yeah, absolutely. And I have my confident moments, but for the most part, I&amp;#039;m just like every other person. I have my insecurities, so I feel like that&amp;#039;s a really relatable song. 17: What about musically? Do your solo songs sound very different from your Hey Monday songs? CP: It&amp;#039;s going to be a lot simpler, not as many layers of things. The Hey Monday songs were always glammed up to be this big production and I definitely want there to be some bells and whistles like synth or drum loops, but for the most part I want a simple, yet powerful production. Think &amp;quot;Battlefield&amp;quot; by Jordin Sparks. Very spaced out stuff, nut all real instruments. 17: Was there anything else you want your fans to know about your upcomiing tour? CP: On my tour, I will be playing Hey Monday songs. It&amp;#039;s not just by solo songs!  Check out Cassadee Pope&amp;#039;s Facebook page for a full list of tour dates! Are you interested to hear Cassadee Pope&amp;#039;s new songs? Speak up in the comments! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/music/a17369/exclusive-interview-cassadee-pope/>