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I arrived in New York and got a cab to the address which I was given for her, I rang the buzzer and waited for a reply, A quiet voice answered, “Hi it’s John Williams I’m here to do an article on you, for Image magazine.” She said “Just a minute” and a minute later she opened the door and took me upstairs to her apartment, we exchanged small talk on the stairs, how’s the weather and such.
I arrive in her apartment and she offers me a seat at her table and a drink, she makes the drinks and joins me at the table, she lights a cigarette and says “Let’s go”
I begin by asking her a couple of questions about where she grew up, “I grew up in New York, Manhattan to be exact, the place I lived as a child is 3 minute’s down the road, My parents are living in Sweden these days though, My father’s half Swedish and he always wanted to spend some time in Sweden.”
The conversation moves towards her siblings, “They’re doing great, they actually live really close which is great because sometimes you can have a lot of friends but when you need them sometimes they aren’t there but with my brother and sister they’re always there when I need them, It’s a fantastic thing, the relationship between brothers and sisters. They both doing things they love, my brothers studying law at NYU and my sisters a nurse at a small Hospital in New York.”
Cristina has a very quiet, raspy kind of voice and as the interview goes on I realise that it’s very soothing, we begin talking about the difficulty’s of relationships, “It’s actually hard to be in a relationship when your in the spotlight, I’m not crazy famous, I can walk down the street on my own and nobody bothers me but if I’m with a guy then there’s always some paparazzi taking photo’s, It’s weird, If I’m out partying and I look on the internet the next day people will criticize me and say that I should be setting and example, and I’m like “I’m 19 years old and I’m having fun, just get over it.” and then sometimes people expect me to go out clubbing or something and they think that because I’m sort of known that I’d use that to have one night stands, it’s like why. I’m not gonna just sleep with some random guy because I’m single, it just doesn’t make sense to me, It’s the only part of the job I don’t like.”
Her plans to go into music were questioned early on, “I decided that I wanted to try my hand at a music career, I don’t know if it’s gonna work out very well but so far things are going good. I’ve recorded some songs which could feature on my debut album and I like them but then again I like a lot of things other people don’t like, I’m not gonna go into the studio thinking this albums gonna be huge, I don’t even think it will be huge, I’d like to think that it will do pretty well, but I don’t even think I’d be ready for a huge album and the attention that comes with it, I just love music and if I could say I’m a musician by trade then that would be great.”
We continue to talk about her love of music, “People are a bit weird about music sometimes, I read things in music magazines and on the internet and I even meet people who are involved in music and they say things like, “nobody listens to albums anymore, it’s all about the singles, as far as I can tell, people do still listen to albums, I’ve got a huge record collection and everyone one of my friends have loads of albums, and these people who say this, there attitude, it’s as if they think the music industry is dying, it can never die, I understand that times are changing in music, but most people seem to think it’s for the worst, It’s really not, I still shop at record stores which are usually crammed full of people buying music, and if your gonna proclaim that music is dead then I’d rather not be around when you say it, that’s my attitude, I know I personally can’t change the world with my music, but a lot of people can, that may seem naïve but it’s the way I feel, if I go to an unknown bands concert, I’m not there expecting to love them, I’m there in hope, I’m looking for something, someone to believe in and music the one thing that can give people hope and can help people dream, I can pick and album from my collection to accommodate how I’m feeling, I can’t do that with my film collection, Friends can’t accommodate how I’m feeling sometimes, music is the only thing that can do that, I can be feeling upset and put on a record and that feeling of sadness or whatever can change almost instantly. It’s a thing of beauty and people should believe in music more, have more faith in music, don’t be defeatist and say music is dead.”
The conversation moves onto more personal matters, Cristina’s love life is an issue which is regularly looked upon in tabloids, “I’m single and I have been for a while, it’s not a negative thing to be honest, I don’t hate being single, I don’t know who I am 100% yet and when I do then I’d begin to look for the one person I’d like to spend the rest of my life with, It’s important to figure out your own life before involving someone else.”
She seems to know who she is, if not 100% then pretty close, “I kind of do, Or I think I do but then something will happen that will through that into doubt, I’ll say something and be like, that’s not me who just said that, it’s weird, I’d be completely comfortable with who I am an then suddenly I just lose confidence in myself, I don’t know why that is, sometimes I just need to be alone, to be reclusive, you’ll probably see in the future, I’ll have photo’s of me in magazine’s partying and then for the next couple of weeks I’ll not leave my apartment, I’m a weird individual and my friends are aware of that, They’ll text me and say something like, we haven’t seen you for a while, are you ok, and I’ll text back yeah I’m fine, I’m just thinking things through, and they’ll be like ok, because they know that I like to spend a lot of alone time, I over think things a lot, I’ll be laying in bed trying to get to sleep but my mind will just go round and round in circles thinking of different scenarios of what will happen if I do this or that, it can be worrying at times but there’s nothing I can do.”
She’s clearly a vulnerable person who has confidence issues which I think need to be sorted out before she starts her music career. OOC: I'm actually not sure if this is good, any constructive comments will be appreciated thanks. Edited by user 27 June 2010 03:00:26(UTC)
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