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Cassadee Pope Details Her 'Freeing' Return to Pop Punk on New Album

Cassadee Pope exclusively opened up to Us Weekly about why she returned to her pop punk roots on her new album, ‘Hereditary’

Pope, 34, quietly returned to the genre a couple of years ago, but her new album, Hereditary, finds her diving back into the sounds that she first fell in love with as a teenager. Working outside the framework of mainstream country made Pope feel more at home in her songwriting, both because of the external pressure to produce a hit and the internal realization that her own beliefs didn’t align with those of the powers that be. Cassadee Pope performs onstage during Daddy’s Dogs Drive In concert on May 29, 2020 in Nashville, TennesseeDanielle Del Valle/Getty Images“I was not feeling confident or in a good place with anything musically, so I went into it not thinking about genres or what people might like or if it was radio-friendly,” she recalled.

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