San Antonio, Texas, indigenous Austin Mahone is reconnecting with his origins on A Lone Star Story, as well as he took a seat with Billboard‘s Rania Aniftos to discuss just how all of it integrated.
“A Lone Star Story is an album I started at the beginning of the pandemic, so it’s definitely been a long time coming,” he claims of his brand-new job. “It didn’t necessarily take me three years to finish it, but just because everyone was so separated and I wasn’t trying to finish it on Zoom. That’s just kind of weird. I feel like my album deserves more than that.”
The 27-year-old includes that he’s thrilled to reveal his country side to the globe. “I just wanted to do something that was more authentic and real to me, and something that would be different for everyone else,” he keeps in mind. “I would be pretty nervous [about going in a new direction] if it wasn’t country music that I was meshing with. Because I grew up on country music, I feel very comfortable in that space, even though I’ve never done country music in my life before. It feels right.”
Mahone, that got acknowledgment via his YouTube as well as Vine covers as a teen, shares that “consistency” is what permitted him to damage the social media sites celebrity preconception as well as obtain taken seriously as a music musician. “Once, I had uploaded a Justin Bieber cover of his song ‘Mistletoe,’ and that was the one that got me a lot of recognition. Ryan Seacrest had it on his show and people started picking it up,” Mahone remembers. “From there, that’s when I was getting a bunch of calls from management and labels.”
See the complete meeting with Austin Mahone over, consisting of an enjoyable acoustic efficiency of his A Lone Star Story hit, “Kuntry.”
