Ciara Talks New Album, 'Cici,' 'Goodies' Being Released 21 Years Ago, Being an Independent Artist & More | AMAs 2025 - video Dailymotion

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Ciara caught up with QTCinderalla & Billboard's Tetris Kelly at the American Music Awards 2025.

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00:00well oh anytime what's up what's up what's up what's up what's happening i mean the outfit

00:05is everything so i just put it together tonight what was the inspiration oh my gosh you know what

00:10we just we gotta bring bling bling to vegas you're coming to vegas you gotta bring bling i tried so

00:15i'm wearing bronx and banco oh i want to say it's bronx and banco oh my gosh i said right but

00:20yeah we're in vegas and there's a little bit of all kind of things happening right now i was kind

00:25like on a kate moss tip with my hair a little bit just feeling good yeah happy to be here

00:30are you feeling good about this new album you're working on i'm excited let's talk about seeing

00:36you too when we talk about music but let me just say this new album cc um you know my fans have

00:41called me cc over the years and it's one of those things where whenever someone calls my name it

00:46feels very personal when they say cc oh my fans say that yeah they are no lip gonna turn up it's

00:52gonna get real stank when i'm on stage give it everything we got um but i mean honestly this

00:57project is a labor of love you know um i'm technically 21 years in album years it's my

01:02first album goodies it was 21 years ago oh my gosh so i want to say thank you to my fans you know i'm

01:07doing things independently and it's not easy yeah being independent is not for the week yeah um but

01:11it's also you know just an incredible journey and i want to say thank you that's that's honestly

01:17what i want to say to my fans so yeah and there are a lot of artists that are trying to be

01:22independent do you have any advice to give them i would say for artists that are trying to be

01:25independent personally for me it's the way to go yeah don't second guess yourself you know i was in

01:31the major recording systems for a lot of my career and i felt very vulnerable when i took that first

01:37leap of faith yeah to launch my song level up and beauty marks entertainment but i'll tell you i'll

01:42never look back and i think ownership is so important for us so i think you you'll be able to

01:46have an empowering feeling when you embark on that journey but believe in you've always believed in

01:51yourself so now you're just letting your wings like open up and now you're flying into your

01:55whole fullness of what you can do and you also get to reap the benefits a little bit more on the

02:00back end side right because the business is very i'm just gonna keep it real right i think that it's

02:06hard for artists when you're trying to come up in this thing and you always have to dish out and

02:10dish out and you're also dishing out your own energy but you look at your bank account you're like

02:14yeah yeah it's a real thing right so you get a chance to be empowered and just be smart yeah you

02:23know that's incredible for me i'll tell you i'm gonna be honest you know say this thing called music

02:28i love it so much but i realize music would never love me back how i love it oh i've accepted that

02:34right because sometimes people are chasing and chasing and you never get to what you want to get

02:38to because you're chasing for something you may not get to sometimes you may but it's very rare

02:42because once you get there you're like oh i want more i want more and i often see my peers and

02:46people kind of losing themselves in the journey so run your own race at your own pace and i gotta

02:52talk to you real quick if i can call you cc real quick okay cc somebody's career you've been very

02:58connected to janet jackson the icon tonight how do you how proud of you are her and like what what's

03:03janet mean to you janet means everything to me um you know she's she's honestly an incredible soul

03:11and sister and friend that i feel so fortunate that i can call if i ever need advice but also

03:17she obviously has inspired me so much of my journey her and her brother there's no one like those two

03:23you know so it's for her to get honored on this stage again tonight because she's been here

03:28and been celebrated before in a different way it is so cool and i'm going to be up jamming out

03:34supporting my girl and i think on behalf of everyone who's not at this mic right now

03:39we say thank you janet from the show that you have done for music you deserve to be celebrated

03:44every day every year we've got to be celebrating jj so i'm excited that's incredible incredible

03:52and my my last question for you singer dancer businesswoman how the hell are you doing this

03:58all how are you tired are you okay where's the nap at yeah that's what i'm trying to find out an

04:03inspiration that's cc you see what i'm saying yeah cc be figuring out wait a nap it you know what russ

04:08and i said i'm gonna tell y'all i haven't posted this yet but i have to share with the world because

04:12i it really did something for me i was talking to russ and he was doing his pt work first football

04:17practice and i was like on the other side of the room i walked over my assistant to go over

04:21and i was like man i was like babe it's just it's just so much happening and he was like what do you feel

04:26you feel you feel stressed out and i said i don't want to say i feel stressed out because that's

04:29like negative yeah he said oh you you ain't stressed out you blessed out oh okay that's what i said

04:36yeah okay i said you better stop that's it right there that's it so we're gonna embrace the challenges

04:44we're gonna embrace the chaoticness the overwhelmness that i feel as a mom and want to be there for russ

04:50in my career it's a lot going on but i am so thankful and i feel blessed out

04:56i love that i love that thank you

Ciara Talks New Album, 'Cici,' 'Goodies' Being Released 21 Years Ago, Being an Independent Artist & More | AMAs 2025

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