Lauren Jauregui Spills On Her Solo Album, Sexual Identity & More
By Hayden Brooks
September 4, 2018
Just as the other Fifth Harmony bandmates are doing, Lauren Jauregui is making tactful moves to launch her solo career and her latest stop includes a cover story for Nylon magazine's September issue, which dropped on Tuesday (September 4).
In the issue, the 22-year-old star pulls through with some high-fashion looks and goes into all the topics that her loyal fans want to hear from her: new music, sexual identity and her goal to inspire movement. "My art is just self-explorative," she said of her upcoming solo material, which includes sessions with producer Illangelo and songwriters Ilsey Juber and Alex Hope. "I'm gonna talk about whatever it is that I'm going through, so if what I went through, I went through with a girl, you're gonna hear about it from that perspective. If what I went through, I did with a man, you're gonna hear it from that perspective, 'cause I just love souls."
When it comes to sexual identity, it seems like Jauregui is still exploring love. "I've learned so much, even about the gender binary since I came out as bisexual, and I’m sure that I could fall in love with anyone as long as their soul was genuine. That’s all that really matters to me," she continued. "I don’t care about the physical. I care about your trauma and sh**, and if you’re projecting that sh** on to me, but that’s really it, because, at the end of the day, we’re all just humans and if we’re attracted to each other, we’re just attracted to each other. So, I just explore that fluidity all the time."
But Jauregui wants to do more than just get on stage and perform. She wants to make a dent in the system. "We’re culture-changers, period," the singer proclaimed. "Whether we grab that power or not, that’s the power we have. Some of us can grab it, and some of us don’t know what to do with it, don’t want to do anything with it, and that's fine. Everyone has their own calling and journey to what they want to do. But for me, this platform means so much more than just making art, because art isn't just singing and dancing. It’s making sh*t that makes people think about how they’re feeling."
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