As of October 26, Alexandra Kay‘s debut album, All I’ve Ever Known, is available on all music streaming platforms, and its contents dive into some of the most troubling times of her life, detailing her divorce from her partner of ten years.
Debut Album, All I’ve Ever Known
While fans might have caught on over the past few months based on differences in her social media tendencies (after all, she has amassed nearly four million followers on TikTok), the star-in-the-making has been going through an extremely difficult period of her life after making the decision to part ways with her husband, and all the tunes featured on All I’ve Ever Known reveal the details.
“This is something that I’ve been going through for over a year now, and people are just hearing about it for the first time,” Kay dished in an exclusive interview with Music Mayhem. “I know that fans noticed, and my followers noticed last year whenever I wasn’t in my yellow kitchen making coffee anymore and I was in this new apartment, and they never saw my husband anymore who I used to include in my videos all the time and I used to talk about all the time.”
“I think when they started not seeing him anymore and they started realizing like the scenery change, everybody started to catch on a little bit,” the talented singer/songwriter continued.
Says Kelly Clarkson And Kelsea Ballerini Are “Super Inspirational”
Detailing the good, the bad, and the ugly of her divorce throughout the eleven-track project, writing was not the only thing that the Illinois native used as a coping mechanism during these troubling times. In the same interview, Kay revealed that recently-divorced stars like Kelly Clarkson and Kelsea Ballerini inspired her to put her heart on the line.
“It was really ironic that in the middle of my situation happening, you know, I think Kelly Clarkson was writing about her divorce and Kelsea Ballerini was putting out her EP, and I just felt like I had so much music to relate to at the time that I really listened to and clung to get me through what I was going through,” she prefaced.
Gained Strength Through Songwriting
The powerhouse vocalist deemed the music of Clarkson and Ballerini to be “super inspirational” as she was experiencing a divorce of her own, sharing how they motivated her to find healing through songwriting herself.
“I just really looked at those females and the strength that they gained through their writing and their creativity, and I was like, ‘Wow, you know, there is light at the end of the tunnel,’ and also just for my fans,” Kay explained, before diving into the first-hand experiences she has had with her supporters since opening up in her music.
“I’ve been sharing music from this record since last year when it started. Right when we started writing songs, I started sharing some songs from the album like during the Backroad Therapy Tour, and people would come up to me at the meet and greets and just be like, ‘I went through it too,’ and give me a huge hug, and just make me feel like I wasn’t the only one,” she gushed.
She concluded with a beaming smile, “Just being a Christian in general and all of the values and things that come along with that, it was really, really hard for me to feel like anybody could relate to what I was going through, and so the fans were really there for me, especially at the beginning.”
Fans can listen to Alexandra Kay’s new album, All I’ve Ever Known, from start to finish on their favorite music streaming platform now. Click HERE to purchase the album.
