Vanessa Carlton on not feeling ‘protected’ early in her career, friendship with Terry Crews and how she always got the ‘White Chicks’ joke

Lyndsey Parker — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 02:38:55 +0000

The singer-songwriter, now age 40, is a thousand miles, emotionally and artistically, from where she was when she wrote her piano pop song “A Thousand Miles” as a teenage ballet student. And while the debut single was the biggest hit of her career — earning Grammy nominations for Record and Song of the Year and placing at No. 6 on Billboard’s overall year-end chart for 2002 — she admits to me that she hated it for years. And it is still associated with some painful memories of her early days in the music business.

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Vanessa Carlton on not feeling ‘protected’ early in her career, friendship with Terry Crews and how she always got the ‘White Chicks’ joke