The Drop: Skylar Grey

Moderated by Critically Acclaimed Actress Marissa Bode The Grammy Museum is thrilled to welcome 5x Grammy Award-nominated artist Skylar Grey to the Museum's intimate 200-seat Clive Davis Theater for an evening celebrating the release of her album WASTED POTENTIAL with a conversation about her creative process and a special performance. With a voice like heaven and lyrics like bruises, pop provocateur Skylar Grey is illuminating the honest messy corners of being human. The existing awareness of Skylar Grey centers around her extensive list of songwriting credits and collaborations, such as her work with Eminem, Dr. Dre, Macklemore, and Zedd, to name a few, as well as her contributions to films such as Venom 2, Aquaman, 50 Shades of Grey, and the Fast and Furious franchise. “But thats not the part of my story that really made me who I am,” she says. With penetrating lyrics so acutely relatable — sometimes devastatingly so — you’d swear Grey came from a broken home, or endured some kind of tragic childhood trauma. In reality, most of her wounds have been self-inflicted. She was born into a loving, supportive family, and her upbringing was as plain and ordinary as a ham sandwich. The woodland-raised songstress grew up in the sleepy, blue-collar, midwestern village of Mazomanie, Wisconsin, against a backdrop of bluffs that rose up like islands in an endless sea of cornfields; a place where life felt uneventful and predictable. But with her restless spirit and a hunger for adventure, she yearned for a way to escape the bland stillness of Midwestern normalcy, surrendering to a magnetic pull toward the dark and forbidden. Whether it was dabbling in witchcraft, despite being raised Christian, feeding inappropriate romantic desires, watching depressing movies just to feel the catharsis of sobbing, experimenting with substances, or making an array of other countless poor choices, she was always just searching for ways to feel more. But the heaviest drug she could find was mu