.LaurenJauregui is making her entrance as a solo artist on PRELUDE, with her heart on her sleeve and a clear vision of who she wants to be
." The heartfelt ballad is like Jauregui's pep talk to herself as she gets ready to embark on this new journey in her career. She calls it the"thesis" of the seven-song EP." It's me having that conversation with myself very intimately and very vulnerably about needing myself to show up for myself in order to do what I had to do," Jauregui says.
In the past, Jauregui has talked openly about her own mental-health struggles. She touches on the topic in her new single"" with Mensa. In the jazz-infused, R&B ballad, both artists sing about the stigma of recognizing and seeking help for the emotional demons that they’re battling. “Gloves on, match met / God makes Her bet,” she sings while bracing up.
"Art is my catharsis," Jauregui says."Art is the way that I make sense of life, what I'm feeling, and what I'm experiencing. One of those things that I was going through a lot of in the group and outside of the group was anxiety and depression, which I found stemmed majorly from just this inner conflict that I had with deservability.