"I feel like everyone sees me as this dark person. That's not really who I am. I'm not saying I'm super happy all the time, but I'm a pretty lighthearted person"

She pushes back against a public narrative that equates aesthetic choices with identity. Because her music and visuals often carry somber tones, people too easily collapse the artist into the art, assuming perpetual gloom. She separates those layers, suggesting that darkness can be a creative palette rather than a personality verdict. The statement resists the binary that expects artists, especially young women, to be either cheerfully palatable or perpetually troubled. She claims a fuller spectrum: not relentlessly upbeat, not consumed by shadow, but someone who can laugh, play, and carry lightness alongside more serious feelings.

There’s a subtle critique of how audiences and media build brands out of people. A moody sound becomes a label; a color palette becomes a psychological diagnosis. She refuses that flattening. By describing herself as “pretty lighthearted,” she redefines what authenticity looks like: not performance of constant optimism, not a persona of theatrical sadness, but permission to hold contradictions. The line about not being “super happy all the time” is important, too. It rejects toxic positivity and acknowledges everyday emotional variability, making room for normalcy amid fame’s magnifying glass.

Her words also invite a more generous way of listening. Rather than treating songs as confessions that totalize the artist’s life, we can understand them as explorations, scenes, moods, characters, and experiments that don’t have to map one-to-one onto a permanent self. The human being can be mischievous and warm even if the art sometimes leans nocturnal. That doesn’t dilute the art; it deepens it by revealing the resilience and humor that often underwrite it. Ultimately, she asserts agency over her narrative, reminding us that public images are, at best, partial truths. Between shadows and levity lies a person who refuses to be reduced to any single shade.