It’s been 10 years since Alexa Ray Joel last released an original single, but she’s ready to step back into the spotlight.
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The daughter of Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley just released her brand new single “Seven Years,” which marks her first original song since her 2011 song “Beg You to Stay.” While Joel did return in 2013, it was with a cover of her father’s classic song “Just The Way You Are.”
In an interview with Yahoo Entertainment, Joel explained the long break between singles. “There is some hesitation, I guess because I am very perfectionistic as an artist, being my father's daughter, having a legend like my father,” she said.
“My father sets the bar so high with his music — everything, the craftsmanship of the song, is so brilliant. He understands how to construct a verse into a pre-course into a chorus, into a bridge, and it paints such a memorable story.”
Joel added that she compares her work to her father’s, which causes some hesitation. “I do set the bar very high for myself, growing up and hearing that be the example,” she said.
Joel went on to discuss how a life in music came naturally to her and the willingness of her father to let her forge her own path. “It kind of was inevitable for me to take this path, regardless of the hardships, being under the shadow, possibly being labeled with nepotism and all of those things that come with that that aren't always so pleasant,” she said.
“I think when you love music that much, it's not even something that you choose. You just know that you have to do it.”
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