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“I’d chopped all my hair off,” she recalls, chuckling.
“I was going through a crappy relationship.
“Sunday Love was, I think, the most difficult because they thought the album was too dark and that I didn’t know who I was,” says Fefe Dobson, of her previously shelved 2006 album.Credit: Mathew Guido for Spoke Entertainment Inc. Styling: Ashley Galang
I was in L.A. and started making this album.
It was a very honest record.
I was at a point in my life where I wanted to let everything show.
The original cover art for Dobson’s ‘Sunday Love.'.Mercury Records
I wanted to be vulnerable and exposed.”
“Honestly, not until the album was almost done [did the label express concern].
Why did y’all let me spiral?”
Fefe Dobson drops her first new song in 4 years.Mathew Guido for Spoke Entertainment Inc. Styling: Ashley Galang
It was a lot of tug-of-war," explains Dobson.
“There are parts of if that I get.
It was a very sweet image, but I wasn’t putting it on.
It was real for me at that time.”
“It went from, ‘the album isn’t coming out’ to I was dropped.
I went back to Toronto.
It was devastating,” she explains.
The album was eventually independently released in June 2006, and made its way to streaming in 2012.
“I didn’t know what to do.
I shut off for a while.
I putSunday Loveon the shelf, emotionally.
I couldn’t listen to the music.
I was mad at it.
I was mad at the album, the creation, everything.”
Dobson says the tracks were given to those artists unbeknownst to her.
It confirmed that I’m not crazy.
There must’ve been something there, and it made me appreciateSunday Loveagain."
“Love is a big topic for me, being in love, being out of love.
She also knows fansreallywant to see her onseason 2 ofCanada’s Drag Race.
“I can’t wait for you guys to see what’s next.”
