![]() It was like: here is something I also really love to do’ … Hailee Steinfeld Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian ![]() ‘It wasn’t, here I am as an actor, now I’m releasing music. ![]() And the headlines out of that were: ‘Hailee tries on a bunch of wigs, shows off her midriff,’ or whatever. “Here I am singing this song about how most girls are beautiful, strong, independent, have so much to offer. Still, when the video came out, that’s not exactly what the focus was on. “I think this generation of women is more than ever banding together and really lifting each other up, and I think girls and guys are really starting to think that way as well,” she says. ![]() It’s about being happy in your own skin, rather than simpering to a boy’s idea that you’re only worthwhile because other girls aren’t. I feel like there’s been this golden standard or rule that in order to be special you have to be different to other women,” she explains. “I felt that we’ve been accepting the compliment ‘You’re not like most girls’ for a very long time. Instead of swooning at the sight of his chiselled jaw, she looks disappointed in him and does a runner. A handsome model type tells her she’s not like most girls. Her current single, Most Girls, is a tropical house banger with an intriguing premise, which the video makes plain. And so she is polite, and grateful for every opportunity, and points to the hard work of people behind the scenes of music and movies, and is ever so nice, and a bit reserved. She is the kind of famous, then, that means she understands how anything she says that deviates from the path of polite platitudes may be blown out of all proportion. She has had to deny she’s dating Justin Bieber. She is the kind of famous that means her bodyguard paces up and down outside the room while we talk tabloids write about her as if every outfit were a showcase for “flaunting” her legs or her abs. Watch the video for Hailee Steinfeld: Most Girls Six years on, she has pivoted in a different direction: despite a return to critical acclaim in the 2016 coming-of-age movie The Edge of Seventeen, she is mostly starring in teen-leaning blockbusters such as Pitch Perfect 2 and the forthcoming Transformers spin-off Bumblebee. Unusually for a pop star, Steinfeld came to singing fame with an Oscar nomination already under her belt – for best supporting actress, at the age of 14, for a brilliant turn in the Coen brothers’ True Grit. “I’m working on the music, and I’m just getting it in the perfect place for them to hear it.” What’s taking so long? “Well, I’m sort of out of the game when I make movies, which is a big reason that it takes me a while.” “They’re so patient!” says the 20-year-old the following day. “Hailee, where’s the album?” read a succinct plea at the Capital Summertime Ball at Wembley stadium in June, where Steinfeld was re-creating her spot on the huge 2016 single Starving, featuring Grey and Zedd. Since her first single, Love Myself, came out in August 2015, followed by an EP, Haiz, a couple of months later, fans of the singer have been so desperate for her to release a full-length that they’ve taken to making banners to wave in her direction at live performances. T o say that Hailee Steinfeld is taking a leisurely approach to her first album would be an understatement. ![]()
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