\u2018Good Luck Charlie\u2019 star talks about her first album,\nbeing a role model and preparing for college<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By Lie Shia Ong<\/em> You might recognize Bridgit Mendler\u2019s name because she\u2019s\none of the stars of Disney Channel\u2019s hit family show, \u201cGood Luck Charlie.\u201d She\nalso starred\u2014and sang\u2014in the popular Disney Channel original movie, \u201cLemonade\nMouth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, the 19-year-old has released her debut album, \u201cHello\nMy Name is \u2026\u201d and her first single, \u201cReady of Not\u201d is already getting airplay\non radio stations across the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don\u2019t worry, parents. Her songs are quite catchy, so it won\u2019t be horrible when your child puts them on repeat in the car. You might actually find yourself listening to her music when your kids aren\u2019t driving with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MSN Music spoke with Mendler about her singing, music\nwriting and also got some scoop about what\u2019s coming up on \u201cGood Luck Charlie\u201d\nthis season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MSN Music: Congratulations\non your new album. How does it feel to have your music out?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Bridgit Mendler: It feels really good, actually. We\u2019ve been getting this thing up for about the past year, and to have the music out there for everybody to listen to is so exciting. I’m just so excited about the response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For some of your\nfans who may not have heard some of the songs yet, how would you describe your\nsound?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The sound is definitely poppy. I think that\u2019s pretty much\nthe base of it, but then we do some R&B, some jazzy sounds, a little bit\nfunky at times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I saw in another\ninterview you did you don\u2019t really view singing and music as a transition from\nacting, but it\u2019s adding another dimension to who you are.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeah. The thing is, I understand that a lot of Disney kids\nget type casted in their acting and then their singing. And, yeah, the timing\nworked out great in that regard, but I\u2019ve always loved singing, so I feel like\nit\u2019s just another way for my audience to get to know me, and to add to what\nthey already know about me. The music and the songwriting have been around for\na while, and it\u2019s just a wonderful thing to be able to share with people now.\nIt\u2019s really just a way for people to get to know me better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When did you know\nyou wanted to sing and write music, and did you have formal training in music\ngrowing up?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I didn\u2019t have formal training with singing. I had some on-and-off vocal lessons, but infrequent. I took piano lessons. I never took guitar lessons, so I kind of taught myself that, but not very well. I don\u2019t really play any instruments at all, but now that I\u2019ve been doing performances, I do have a vocal coach and he is amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You wrote your\nfirst single, \u201cReady or Not.\u201d What was your inspiration for that song, and what\ninspires you to write other songs?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cReady or Not\u201d was inspired\u2014I think I just kind of wanted\nto write a song where the girl went after the guy. I wanted to be going after\nthings. I really believe if you want something you should go after it, and so\nthat\u2019s what \u201cReady or Not\u201d is all about. And yes, it\u2019s a relationship song, but\nI think that we can go inspirational with it, too. [Laughs].<\/p>\n\n\n\n Who were the\nartists and singers you looked up to growing up?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I loved Destiny\u2019s Child when I was younger. I loved\nBritney Spears. Christina Aguilera. Then when I was around 13, I kinds started\ndiscovering more music outside of the pop radio stuff. Bob Dylan was a big\ninfluence for me. Love Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald. I listened to some other\nrandom oldies like Spoon and Squeeze and Van Morrison. And more modern bands\nthat I like: Broken Bells, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Maroon 5. I like Gym Class\nHeroes. I love leading females like Adele \u2026 and Feist \u2026 It was just fun to\nbroaden all the horizons and just be inspired by all these people with their\nunique sounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, I\u2019m guessing you\nhave quite the mix on your iPod!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [Laughs] I\u2019m always so bad at condensing the list!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you have a dream\nduet partner you would just love to record with?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I would love \u2013it\u2019s impossible now, but if I could have\never done a duet with Etta James, that would have been amazing. That would have\nbeen so cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s been quite\nthe interesting season on \u201cGood Luck Charlie\u201d with the addition of your new\nbaby brother. What\u2019s it been like having a new baby on the set?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s been really fun. He\u2019s really such a sweet little baby.\nHe\u2019s always smiling. He\u2019s always happy. He\u2019s very low-maintenance, so it hasn\u2019t\nbeen a big drama for us to have him. It\u2019s actually just been a joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Have you finished\ntaping this season?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We finished taping season 3, and Season 4 starts taping in\nJanuary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Any scoop you can\ntell the \u201cGood Luck Charlie\u201d fans?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Season 3 has a dramatic season finale where everything in\nthe Duncans\u2019 world is turned upside down, so we\u2019re looking forward to Season 4,\nand honestly, we haven\u2019t seen any new material, so we\u2019re just excited to see\nwhat happens with the following season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A lot of girls\nlook up to you as role model. Do you feel any pressure being cast in that\nlight, and do you like having that sort of responsibility?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The responsibility doesn\u2019t weigh on me much, but I feel\nso honored to have the title, and it\u2019s always something to take very seriously\nand to always remember. You do have responsibilities to those girls and boys,\ntoo, who look up to you. But I feel like it\u2019s not so much pressure to do things\nin a certain light because I think the number one lesson you can give people is\nto be themselves. So, I think that should be something that just comes naturally.\nBesides that, it\u2019s the greatest honor that I can possibly get when people tell\nme that I can be a role model for them because I think it\u2019s such a great thing\nto have people really look up to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You\u2019re planning on\nstarting college soon. Are you excited to do that?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I am. I\u2019m really excited. I don\u2019t know what classes I\u2019m\ntaking yet, so I need to figure that out, but we\u2019re going to take things slow\nand just do one at a time and make sure we get it done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How do you think you\u2019re\ngoing to balance having a music career, an acting career and also going to\nclass?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I don\u2019t know. I really don\u2019t know. We\u2019re just going to\nsee what happens. [Laughs]. My mom is pretty good at juggling a bunch of stuff\nat once, so hopefully I can do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You\u2019re doing some\nradio shows to help promote the album, but are you planning a full-on tour at\nall?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There\u2019s not one on the books right now. We\u2019re really\nlooking forward to fans response and that sort of thing, but so far, I have a\nfew radio shows coming up this winter. So, if people are interested in seeing\nwhere I might be, they can check in with their local radio stations to see if I\u2019m\ngoing to be on their holiday concert list. But besides that, we\u2019re getting\ngoing with \u201cGood Luck Charlie,\u201d so it makes scheduling a little more difficult,\nbut we\u2019re hoping to make it happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Any message you\nwant to send out to your fans?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you, thank you so much for the support. I love you\nall. I love hearing about what you think of the music, so keep me posted, and I\nlove to meet everybody, so one day we\u2019ll have to try to meet! \u2018Good Luck Charlie\u2019 star talks about her first album, being a role model and preparing for college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-msn-entertainment","category-portfolio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lieshiaong-sintzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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