LISA MCCLENDON RAW & UNCUT: Lisa Speak Out About The Music Industry and Integrity Records
Hi Guys, i was sent this article and interview by Empowering Everyday Women Online Magazine (EEW Magazine) .. This interview is with Lisa McClendon. She speak exclusively about the Music Industry and Integrity Gospel Records. So read it and leave your comments about what Lisa McClendon is saying in this interview.
After years of living for the approval of others, for the first time in her life, Lisa McClendon— the self-proclaimed “Boss Lady” is breaking her silence about her secret struggles, and doing things her way for a change.
In her upclose and personal interview with Dianna Hobbs, Founder and Editor-In-Chief of EEW Magazine, Lisa McClendon unmasks her hidden pain and reveals exclusive details about her personal heartbreak, poor self-image, and the ongoing struggle to make power plays in a tough, often treacherous music industry game that has ravaged many young, hopeful artists.
Lisa McClendon’s first major break came through Integrity Gospel, the music label that’s home to many of the industry’s heaviest hitters. But now, after her split from Integrity, the Boss Lady is going it alone with a new smash album release—Reality—scheduled to drop on her very own Indie Label, DG Music, in April of this year.
Lisa McClendon’s excitement about the upcoming album is palpable, yet the road to her newfound place of freedom and new beginnings has been wrought with pain, heartbreak, and uncertainty at times. Though publicly wearing a smile, for the past several years, just beneath the surface, was a wantonness in Lisa’s soul— a silent longing for serenity and real happiness. A private storm was brewing–one that she’s been hiding all this time… until now.
Where the Drama Started
To best understand the emotional wounds that have afflicted Lisa throughout her life, you must travel back to her childhood, where the first traces of inadequacy and self-loathing came to light. According to Lisa, she struggled with low self-esteem from the time her baby sister, Amanda, was born.
“So you have this light, bright-skinned child,” explains Lisa, “with this extremely curly hair, very pretty, and she was getting all the attention; I have short, nappy hair…”
Lisa didn’t like herself, and no one knew the struggle she was going through at the time—after all, she was but a small child, hardly remove from her toddler stages.
advertisement “I believe with all my heart that it started right there [with my baby sister] but because no one knew what was going on inside of me, no one really reaffirmed who I was.”
Desperate for attention, Lisa McClendon began creating a world full of lies and deceit so that someone—anyone would love her and accept her. “I was a wonderful liar,” Lisa laughs. “I built a fantasy world around myself. The world I wanted, the life I wanted, I just began to make it up as a child for attention.”
But Lisa McClendon’s fantasy world wasn’t just a figment of her childhood imagination. On the contrary, she carried this pseudo-world into adulthood, which led to very serious issues with her identity. “It just grew bigger and bigger,” Lisa explains. “Until one day, I realized that I just didn’t really know who I was. In early adulthood I realized I had lied so much that, I didn’t know what I liked or who I was… just because of having very low self-esteem.”
As you might imagine, high school was a nightmare for Lisa McClendon. She tells EEW Magazine, “When you have low self-esteem, you pretty much lower your standards and will start accepting anything just for attention.” Her early troubled love life began in her pre-teen years. “I started dating this guy in the seventh grade— well at least I thought I was dating him. I think he thought something else. And we had a weird, strange, on and off relationship from seventh grade until the time I went to college.”
Sometimes he’d treat Lisa like a queen… and other times, like a peasant. According to Lisa McClendon, one of her most memorable hurts came when her supposed beau unapologetically began dating one of her girlfriends who attended the same high school. Ouch!
More… To read the full Lisa McClendon interview (click here)
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Comment by Horrez on 25 July 2008:
I Horrez Plater would like to say that my compassion goes out to you deeply and i hope that you have truly overcome your self esteem problem.But what i wanted to say to you is that wether you know it or not you are truly blessed and just think about,God has given you a chance to shine and to be able to use your many gifts and talents and to be able to have your music play on the radio ect. and many of us do not get this opportunity.Me myself i could tell you about low self esteem because at times i still deal with it and for me gone through my lifes journey i have been through a tremendous ordeal,from living in my car with my daughter on down to not having my mother as a infant and living with an abusive father that was a so called politician who married a woman that really didn’t want us in my fathers life.My father would make me watch a program called sixty-minutes and the Bill Cosby show.My father would put me in what you would call the dog house.He would beat on me especially around homework time.If i didnt know the answer to something he would repeatedly stand me up and beat me until i got the answer right.I wanted to be a dancer my father chastized me for that.I loved to sing he chastized me for that.My father made me so ashamed of who i was and kept me so sheltered from others.He would even take my left hand and put into his pocket telling me he did this because he didnt want me to sray off.I found out later that my mother was on drugs,this was very painful.my father started leaving me over my mothers,mother house and it was so horrible.there was so many people living in that house and to top it all off there were no sheets on the mattresses and they had a bunch of urine stains on them,it was like 5 kids on one matress.My uncle would kiss me in the mouth and feel on me like i was his girlfriend and at this time i was only a little kid.This happened alot.I would ask my father to not take me over there but he was so wrapped up into his politics he didn’t care so i became used to what was going on.I actually started to like my uncle.Now how crazy was that.when i turned 14 i ran away from home.and i got raped twice by two different guys and my family signed me over to the state where i became an award of the state.I started running away from group homes,hitchhiking back to my hometown,i got raped again ,I ran again i got raped again until i met an old man that was a doctor and he raped me but i stayed with him because he had a nic apartment and stayed in the suburbs and i did not want to go back to anymore group homes,girls homes or foster care.Lisa ,i have had so much happen to me i could go on and on,but my point to you is i horrez am a beautiful woman now and i can sing my heart out and yet have never been blessed with to much of anything but my little girls and all i can tell you is it is not the way a person looks that should determine who you are or how you feel about yoursel,IT’S ABOUT WHO GOD MADE,WHICH IS YOU AND HOw HE MADE YOU TO BE.UP UNDER ALL OF THE LIES STORIES AND HURT HE MADE YOU YOU AND HE MUST HAVE BEEN PLEASED BECAUSE YOU ARE HERE,YOU EXIST SO TAKE YOUR GIFTS AND USE THEM IN THE WAY GOD WOULD WANT YOU TO BECAUSE YOU ARE BLESSED NOT BECAUSE OF THE THINGS YOU HAVE GONE THROUGH OR BEEN THROUGH BUT BECAUSE GOD LOVES YOU.NEVER LOSE YOUR SIGHT JUST BECAUSE OTHERS MAY NOT SEE YOU JUST KNOW THAT YOU HAVE THE BEST EYES WATCHING YOU AND THOSE EYES BELONG TO GOD.ANOTHER THING IS ALOT OF PEOPLE ARE ARTIFICIAL,AND IT IS ASHAME THAT PEOPLE ARE CAUGHT UP IN THE COLOR OF SKIN,THE TEXTURE OF ONES HAIR OR WHO THEY FEEL IS THE PRETTIEST BECAUSE WHEN IT IS ALL SAID IN DONE WHAT REALLY MAKES A PERSON HAPPY IS IT LOOKS?NO IT IS THE WAY A PERSON TREATS YOU YES.tHERE ARE SOME BEAUTIFUL WOMEN AND MEN OUT HERE THAT HAVE DEEP ISSUES AND THEY CAN’T EVEN GET SOMEONE TO SIT IN THE ROOM WITH THE FOR MOERE THAN 5 MINUTES AND THEN YOU HAVE SOME THAT ALL THEY HAVE TO OFFER IS THEIR LOOKS AND THAT RUNS OUT,AND THEN YIU HAVE SOME THAT ARE SO CRITICAL ARROGANT,WANNA BE DIFFERENT BECAUSE THEY REALLY WANT TO STAND OUT AMONGST THE WORLD THAT THEY WIND UP HAVING MENTAL ISSUES BECAUSE THEY HAVE GOTTEN LOST IN SELF.NOW WHO WANTS TO LIVE IN CONFUSION AND NOT KNOW WHO they ARe.LISA YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL AND YOU DEFINITELY ARE BLESSED TAKE THIS AND SHOW THE WORLD WHAT GOD HAS REALLY MADE.MAY GOD FOREVER KEEP AND BLESS YOOOU! ALWAYS. REZBERRY35@yahoo.com if you would like to comment.