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"  For pop music to be truly great, it can&amp;#039;t just make us want to jump around in our underwear\u2014it also has to make us cry. Currently officiating that marriage of energy and emotion is 22-year-old Australian-born singer-songwriter Betty Who, n\u00E9e Jess Newham. With her first EP, 2013&amp;#039;s self-released The Movement, the 6&amp;#039;1&amp;quot; bottle blond\u2014who relocated from Sydney to Michigan&amp;#039;s Interlochen Arts Academy in 2007, before going on to attend Boston&amp;#039;s Berklee College of Music\u2014proved with just four songs that the pop genre, however saturated, could use a shot in the arm. Whether confessing devotion (&amp;quot;Somebody Loves You&amp;quot;), fantasizing about the glam life (&amp;quot;High Society&amp;quot;), or calling out hot-then-cold lovers (&amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re in Love&amp;quot;), her tracks, with their fresh &amp;#039;80s-inspired dance beats and synths layered over vividly narrative lyrics (Betty Who counts &amp;quot;Girls Just Want to Have Fun&amp;quot; as an influence), let us commiserate with so-what, it&amp;#039;ll-all-be-okay smiles on our faces. Related: Your Next Pop Obsession: Betty Who The word-of-mouth success of The Movement (which caught fire when &amp;quot;Somebody Loves You&amp;quot; was featured in the proposal video of a gay couple from Utah that went viral) buoyed a record deal at RCA. Enter Betty Who&amp;#039;s forthcoming full-length album, due this spring, with the first single &amp;quot;Heartbreak Dream&amp;quot;\u2014another poignant jammer\u2014hitting radio early this year. Her rise is set to go from steady to supersonic. &amp;quot;My music is my entire life,&amp;quot; says Betty Who. &amp;quot;My livelihood. It&amp;#039;s who I am to such an extent, and I&amp;#039;ve spent so much time becoming exactly who I wanted to be as an artist.\u2026 I wasn&amp;#039;t going to do the thing where I get dropped six times, ya know? This is it for me. This is very much just it.&amp;quot; Related: Best Female Singers of 2013 With that, ELLE sat down (again) with Betty to talk about &amp;quot;it&amp;quot; and her moment. Here we are again. We can&amp;#039;t get enough of you at ELLE. Well, thank you so much. That means a lot. But, ya know, there&amp;#039;s so much about what&amp;#039;s happened to me throughout all of this that&amp;#039;s extraordinary in the truest sense of the word. All the people who&amp;#039;ve wanted to help along the way, including you guys. But it&amp;#039;s like, of course all these people fell into my lap. This makes sense. I&amp;#039;ve worked so hard that the right people just kind of appeared in my life. The universe sent these people to change my life. Speaking of, what can we expect on the second EP? Peter [Thomas], my producing partner, and I already had eight songs done when we came to RCA. After I&amp;#039;d signed and they heard the tracks Peter and I had been working on, I went in the next day and everyone was like, &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve been listening to this all night. These are unreal. They&amp;#039;re even better than the first.&amp;quot; That must have been such a relief. Of course! It was like handing off my life and wanting to say, &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t fuck it up!&amp;quot; And do you have plans for a full-length any time soon? Yes, definitely. That&amp;#039;s also in the works. I want my full-length to be like the end of the story. This is my rags to riches fairytale. It&amp;#039;s my inauguration into pop. Will you be working with anyone on that album? Producers? Writers? I&amp;#039;m definitely not pushing to find who can I write with or produce with, but of course I&amp;#039;m open to something if it comes up. Will your full-length have any of your hits? &amp;quot;Somebody Loves You?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;High Society?&amp;quot; I hope so. I want it all to come full circle. I think the reason it make sense to have those songs is because my fans have been like, &amp;quot;I wish that everybody in the world knew these first four songs from the EP.&amp;quot; It will be like a reward to everyone who has supported me up to now to see those four songs get as much exposure as they possibly can. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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