Keri Hilson Dishes On Her New Movie Lust

So, it sounds like for now, certainly, acting is on the front burner for sure. You described the worlds being different from filming a movie to writing a record. But I think there's probably some similarities in that collaborative spirit as well, right?

Very true. I hadn't thought of that, because all I can think, normally, are the differences, but you're right. You're absolutely right. It's a collaborative effort. We're all there. We're creatives. There are some liberties you'll take, and sometimes you have to just trust someone-else's expertise and take the back seat, and do what you're told or whatever. Not what you're told, but do what you feel is best for the project that you're working on. And there are times where in music you have that same collaborative spirit. So yeah, absolutely.

You made me think of something I had never considered.

That's what we do here at Nicki Swift, we make people think. Obviously hackers, German or otherwise, internet chatter — social media is a minefield, right? It's just like, come on.

Yeah.

You took a break, a conscious break from social media, right?

Years, yeah.

That must have affected your mindset in a very real way, right, in a palpable way.

In a positive way.

So you would call it a positive thing to have taken that step back, that conscious step back?

Very much so. It allowed me to realize that the criticism, both the criticism and the praise, can be equally damaging, equally dangerous.

That's a great point.

You're inheriting these ideas that people have about you, these opinions that people have about you. You inherit them into your subconscious. And that can be a very dangerous thing, whether it's good or bad. So while you're developing your confidence, your ideas about yourself, trying to find some stability and structure in your life or whatever that is for you, I think it's really good to put the peanut gallery on mute.

Peanut gallery is a good term for all of that, for sure. And everybody always seems like they have the right idea about something that they don't understand. Breaks are probably something that more people should think about taking when it comes to social media.

I think so.

On your Twitter these days, you speak a lot about being present, present and positive thinking, and meditative practices, versus prayer. It strikes me that-

Not versus prayer.

Well not versus prayer, pardon me.

For me it's both. Yeah.

But that, those both existing in time, as being pursuits, right? That has to be something that is positive for your wellbeing. Who you see as who you are. All things being said about the internet gossip, and everything else, you want to be who your best person is.

Right. Exactly. And if that's what you strive to do, there are ways to go about it. You just want to have mental clarity and spiritual clarity to make decisions for yourself, to form ideas about yourself, for yourself. Your core beliefs, well, you got to be malleable in those, because a lot of the things that we feel are true are not true. But yeah, I think it's really, those practices have been life-changing for me and a lot of friends that I had around. There's no going backwards. Once you feel what being dialed in to the universe really feels like you're never, you're unable to go backwards, really. It's just up from there.

ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7r7XCpKCsr5mbwW%2BvzqZmbHBjaYR1e8qeqaJlmJ65tLvNZpuiq5iawG67zWafnqpdo7K4ecyoraKdXaHCtMCMnq%2BcpKWotrexjKKlrZ2iq7amw44%3D