Fancy Hagood: “Music Has Been My Center of Joy”
metroweekly.comDancing With the Stars, was unceremoniously quashed.“I stood on Dancing with the Stars, in between Ariana Grande and Meghan Trainor, and all the while behind the scenes I’m being told I’m not a superstar and all these things,” he says. “Boys Like You” cleaned up on the music apps — Spotify alone shows it at 70 million streams — but “they wouldn’t take it to the radio because of fear, because I would’ve been a boy singing about a boy on American radio in 2015.
And for some reason that was just too edgy for even the biggest names in music.“Really,” he continues, “what it would’ve been is groundbreaking and historic.
But instead of letting that be, they squashed it and they tried to squash me.”Hagood cut ties with Braun, Borchetta, and Dr.
Luke and forged his own path in Nashville as an independent musician.“I know what I’m capable of, I know where I belong,” he says. “I know what tables I sit at.
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