Aliyahs Interlude is fashioning a music career by skipping the typical TikToker-to-singer pipeline.
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Its not considered late if you show up in full Aliyahcore.
I love getting sexy and going to the club and hearing my music.
So, I dont know, I guess Im poppin.
I be outside, Aliyah says with a laugh.
Girl, I love the club.
I was getting bullied almost every single day, she says.
I would go to school so mad because they finna get me again.
I really love me / Have no doubt just, Aliyah sings in the chorus.
They tried to make me hate myself.
Shes also been exercising and doing breath control to confirm her performances are tea.
She even took a break from styling other people.
Fashion is obviously where I came from, Aliyah says.
But music is another way to express who I am as a person.
TikTok can definitely be promotion, but I dont think its the best way to promote shit.
I own all my masters, and its literally only one album, she says.
If it works, I might re-sign; if not, fuck it.
Artists now have more agency over their music.
Instability is scary for a Taurus like Aliyah.
But if that does happen, shes confident someone will create a similar app.
And Ill be a poppin bitch on that, too, she says.
That over-the-top creative vision was all over her 21st-birthday party.
Each pose she hit perched on the saddlewas punctuated by the crowd yelling Yes!
in various lengths, hyping her up the way she does for others on TikTok.
The Aliyahs Interlude fan base unites all the different tables in a high-school cafeteria.
This is purely for the community, she described the party earlier in the day.
To turn the fuck up with the people that fuck with me.
