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"It was really exhilarating. It was like all of these rush of things, but then right before, I was super calm, like, 'We got this,' " she told MTV News not long after accepting the Best Video With a Social Message alongside her Seattle collaborators. - MTV
"It was really exhilarating. It was like all of these rush of things, but then right before, I was super calm, like, 'We got this,' " she told MTV News not long after accepting the Best Video With a Social Message alongside her Seattle collaborators. - MTV
Lambert never expected to be performing on the Video Music Awards -- "I still feel like I'm going to be at mom's to turn on the VMAs and watch whatever Kanye does," the singer-songwriter tells Billboard with a laugh. But "Same Love" has followed in the footsteps of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' breakout smashes "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us" by crossing into the upper reaches of the Hot 100, and Lambert, a Seattle native with a single EP to her name, has joined Wanz and Ray Dalton as a breakout featured artist on one of the duo's radio takeovers. The VMAs performance will follow Lambert's appearances on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and "The Colbert Report" alongside Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. - Billboard Magazine
Lambert never expected to be performing on the Video Music Awards -- "I still feel like I'm going to be at mom's to turn on the VMAs and watch whatever Kanye does," the singer-songwriter tells Billboard with a laugh. But "Same Love" has followed in the footsteps of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' breakout smashes "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us" by crossing into the upper reaches of the Hot 100, and Lambert, a Seattle native with a single EP to her name, has joined Wanz and Ray Dalton as a breakout featured artist on one of the duo's radio takeovers. The VMAs performance will follow Lambert's appearances on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and "The Colbert Report" alongside Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. - Billboard Magazine
I spent two years thinking about making this video and why it was important and necessary.
I never expected to hear men AND women singing the lyrics, “She keeps me warm” right along with me. I thought girls would feel weird about the pronoun of “she” and I certainly didn’t want to alienate an audience. But you didn’t care. Nobody cared about a fucking pronoun. - XO Jane
I spent two years thinking about making this video and why it was important and necessary.
I never expected to hear men AND women singing the lyrics, “She keeps me warm” right along with me. I thought girls would feel weird about the pronoun of “she” and I certainly didn’t want to alienate an audience. But you didn’t care. Nobody cared about a fucking pronoun. - XO Jane
“So how does a Christian slam-poet from Seattle end up on a Billboard ranking rap song?” Mary Lambert bursts into a deep, heartfelt giggle. “Well it’s kind of a long story…” she trailed off, before taking a deep breathe and explaining the long road to prestige and popularity for an audacious young lesbian who took every rule of pop music and told it to go fuck itself. Successfully! - AfterEllen
“So how does a Christian slam-poet from Seattle end up on a Billboard ranking rap song?” Mary Lambert bursts into a deep, heartfelt giggle. “Well it’s kind of a long story…” she trailed off, before taking a deep breathe and explaining the long road to prestige and popularity for an audacious young lesbian who took every rule of pop music and told it to go fuck itself. Successfully! - AfterEllen
Vocalist and co-writer Mary Lambert has released She Keeps Me Warm, which takes the chorus that she sang in Same Love and gives it its own track to shine on! - See more at: http://perezhilton.com/2013-07-26-mary-lambert-she-keeps-me-warm-spinoff-song-from-macklemore-and-ryan-lewis-same-love#.UfK3mG3-5b8 - Perez Hilton
Vocalist and co-writer Mary Lambert has released She Keeps Me Warm, which takes the chorus that she sang in Same Love and gives it its own track to shine on! - See more at: http://perezhilton.com/2013-07-26-mary-lambert-she-keeps-me-warm-spinoff-song-from-macklemore-and-ryan-lewis-same-love#.UfK3mG3-5b8 - Perez Hilton
Discography
She Keeps Me Warm - 2013 (Single)
Letters Don't Talk - 2013 (EP)
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Bio
Mary Lambert is good at two things; crying and singing. Nowhere is this better reflected than on her debut EP Letters Don’t Talk. The collection of songs, released in 2012, established Mary as a formidable Seattle artist and caught the attention of local hip-hop duo, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, with whom she wrote and sang the same-sex rights anthem “Same Love”.
The revolutionary single has allowed Mary's voice to reach millions. She has toured nationally and performed live on The MTV Video Music Awards, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, VH1, and The Colbert Report. "Same Love" has sold over a million copies in the US alone, peaking at number 11 on The Billboard Hot 100. She recently released her newest single, "She Keeps Me Warm". The music video for the song received over one million views in its first week.
Mary graduated from Cornish College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Composition. She is also an award winning spoken-word artist. She published her debut book of poetry, 500 Tips for Fat Girls, in January of 2013.
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