![]() “It ignited my fire, and I just wanted to feel like that all the time. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of. “When I was younger, I never really understood the lyrics it was more so the energy I felt, that I wanted to dance,” Max says. The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Max always knew she wanted to make pop music, ever since she fell in love with the sound of Mariah Carey’s voice and the way it made her feel. “But I think it just makes sense for the album, and the songs, and everything that I’ve been through.” “When I was writing the song, one says, ‘Torn in between heaven and hell’ and I was listening to it one day, and I was like ‘heaven and hell, wow, all the songs have dualities to them.’ It goes with the whole thematic imagery I see in my head, with this and that, like the angel, the devil, but not so literal - it’s more what we go through in everyday life, we kind of have this rollercoaster, literally called life, and how ironic it feels we’re literally in heaven and hell one day, these days,” she says. The new album is a continuation of such - Max loves a duality. The song that got her signed, a track called “Anyone but You” that she uploaded to Soundcloud, features her mother singing opera at the very beginning, before dipping into a beat-driven pop track. “It put a lot of pressure, obviously, on little eight-year-old and 14-year-old me, every time we moved,” Max says. Her singing dreams were the reason behind the family’s repeated moving throughout her childhood. Inspired by major heartbreak she experienced over the last two years. The pure dance-pop, 14 track second album is filled with electro-pop melodies, 90s synths, and even a touch of disco. And so, when I started singing, and I loved to sing, they were like, ‘Oh, she’s actually good. Well her name is Ava Max, her hair is all one length now, and she’s back with her sophomore album, Diamonds & Dancefloors. My mom sang opera, and my dad played the piano, my uncles are in music, my grandpa and grandma made music, so the entire family loved music. “My parents were very supportive from the beginning. ![]() Her mother had sung opera in Albania, going to an opera school in secret as it was forbidden, and would sing to Max constantly when she was a child, waking her up for school in the morning by song. “But then, my dad did not want to shovel snow all the time, so he was like, ‘Where’s four-season weather,’ and they went to Virginia.” “They didn’t have money, they didn’t know the language, they just lived in Wisconsin,” Max says of her parents. ![]() (Wisconsin was where the woman who helped them get passports was from, so it seemed as good a place as any to settle.) Max’s parents were refugees from Albania who initially landed in Wisconsin upon arrival to the U.S., after spending a year in Paris living in a church. ![]()
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