You move so much and you meet so many different people, you kind of meet the same people, in a sense,” Robinson said. He took a cue from his mother and gravitated toward singing, even competing with his high school choir and studying musical theater. He started writing to channel his feelings regarding the constant shuffling. It also meant the family regularly moved across the country, and even to Germany for six years. It wasn’t her dream, but it kept her with her two kids and away from war (“She pretty much risked everything,” he said). Robinson’s mother, his biggest musical inspiration, sings with the the U.S. I think over the next few years the youth will really understand that we have the ability to control a lot more things than we think we can.” There’s so many other countries that suppress creatives - especially black creatives women creatives. “But I’m proud to be an American because I have a sense of individualism and I can live comfortably expressing myself. “A lot of people are themselves from the term ‘American,’ especially because of someone who’s not as qualified as they should be leading us,” he said. The album’s title is a nod to the universal expression of adolescence that he writes about, but today it has taken on a more political tone.
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