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The 56-year-old singer-songwriter spoke to Jezebel about learning from Gen Z and touring her first collection of entirely original compositions in nearly a decade.Paula Cole comes right out with it: “I deeply resent when I’m associated with just a television show.” The singer-songwriter and I had only met minutes earlier but Cole’s an Aries so I was looking forward to this no-fucks-given frankness.
Though she never quite stopped making music, it’s been a minute since Cole has been out on the road sharing it like this. In the mid-2000s she stepped away from the industry to raise her daughter , and to teach at the acclaimed Berklee College of Music as a visiting scholar in performance studies. But practicality wasn’t the only instigator of the pause.
“When I look at the landscape of artists, sometimes there’s luck involved but often there’s usually excellent management behind success stories. I just never…I never had that,” Cole explains. “The hits…they’re perennial, and I’m proud of that. But there’s more to me than that.” But teaching, most of all, has clearly helped Cole feel as if she’s righting the wrongs of the industry not just by arming them with the wisdom she’s incurred from years in the business, but by empowering them as performers and thinking, feeling people. “I feel like I’ve probably gained more than they have in my years of working at the college, but their sense of like identity? It’s proud, it’s free,” Cole said.
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