“It was a lot of religious music, like gospel, choral stuff, hymns, classical music, older country music. So I was exposed to a lot of ‘new’ old music when I was in middle school and high school.”Through this new-found love of pop, Debbii soon decided that she wanted to create some of her own. And I think all these eras really sum a lot of these things up.”AdvertisementThat’s not to say that she thinks pop music is all about escapism, though. “I think we’re coming out of escapism, and starting to have to come face to face with a lot of things. “Two minutes into meeting him, he was like, ‘I can tell you’re weird, you should lean into it’,” she says with a laugh.