Melanie Fiona’s ‘The MF Life’ album has arrived in stores so she has knocked her promotional efforts into overdrive. The R&B songstress nabbed the cover of VIBE VIXEN’s March issue, just in time to remind people that she won’t go down without a fight.
During her interview with VIBE, Fiona shared intimate details about the lowest point of her career when she suffered an exhaustion-fueled breakdown. Read all the details about that situation as well as see her full cover of the publication below:
On hitting a low in her career
It got pretty low for me. I started to have a lot of emotional turmoil with my mental state of mind and my body ’cause I was exhausted.People don’t really understand what an artist really has to go through. It’s such an intense schedule; one day I’m in L.A., the next day I’m in Switzerland, the next day I’m in Italy and the next day I’m back in L.A. Mind you, I’m performing in that time in between, I’m meeting people, I’m talking and, you know, I’m on a different schedule. I
came back off of the Alicia Keys tour, and I just hit the wall. Like, straight-up, I hit the wall. I crashed; I said to my team, ‘I’m no good to anyone right now. I need to recover,’ and it really affected my confidence level in my approach to my job, my mind when it came to everything around me. I started to victimize myself in a way and it’s because when your body is not healthy, it really does produce negative emotions and energy and so.
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She has an amazing voice, period.
She looks great!