“I have always wanted, to be honest with my feelings and my music and that’s what is so amazing about the industry now; you don’t have to censor your feelings. You can be as open as you want and not be judged—for the most part,” JoLivi explains about the honesty and vulnerability in her music. In the beginning of her career, she says, that she felt a little pressure to censor herself out of the respect of her younger audience, but says they have only grown with her. JoLivi’s music beautifully focuses on emotion in a way that offers assurance and validation to the person feeling these things. But on a more specific spectrum, her music is refreshing because it offers women empowerment by not villainizing emotion. “We are human,” she exclaims when we talk about how she hopes her art can contribute to changing the stigma around vulnerability and emotion in women. “Some of us wear our hearts on our sleeve and some of us don’t. As a female, I’ve heard it all; ‘You’re so dramatic,’ ‘It’s not a big deal,’ ‘Get over it,’ You know what? Eff that! I’m feeling this way because I am. My body is feeling this way. You think I want to feel left out or cheat on or used? Hell no!” #JoLivi #JustForYou #JustForYouEP #LoveWhoYouWantToLove 📷: Shalon Gloss http://teenplicity.com/jolivi-discusses-music-vulnerability-and-heartbreak/