Amerie recently revealed that she didn’t listen to music for a decade.
During an episode of The Joe Budden Podcast, the singer confessed that she went without music for a decade.
“So I went through like ten years where I didn’t listen to anything,” she said.
Chiming in, Budden thought didn’t listen to music because she was in “writing mode” and completing her forthcoming novel. According to Amerie, her hiatus from listening to music was something different.
“See, I thought that it was because now I’m writing,” she explained to the co-host. “I thought it was because, you know, you’re in writing mode and you’re not [making music] right now.”
“But then I realized later, I was like, ‘You weren’t listening to music because you were trying to avoid it. You felt like it was gonna make you angsty because you know it’s gonna make you want to make music,” she said. “So all you’re gonna do is be frustrated. And so that just made me be like, ‘I’m not listening to any music.”
Amerie’s forthcoming novel, This is Not a Ghost Story, is set to arrive June 10, making it her literary fiction debut. The book chronicles “the story of a Black man who finds himself in Los Angeles, where he becomes famous for being the first visible ghost.”
On the music side, Amerie announced the upcoming release of her fifth album in 2025, which is her first project since 4AM Mulholland and After 4 AM in 2018.
In March, she released “Mine”, the first single from the project.
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