Glamour: Your TikTok campaign to get yourself top of the charts as a “quadruple homicider” – being Black, a woman, gay and autistic – has succeeded. How does that feel?

Cat: Amazing. I hit so many different intersectionalities, so I don’t necessarily want to be or think that I am a role model, but the facts are I do hit all of those four different categories. It’s just not that common for that to happen. So I was really wanting it to happen, to show other people that it can happen.

I think as a lot of people always say, they do it for the younger generation, and for younger people to be able to see themselves and people in the public eye to be able to go, “Okay, this is something I could do”. I can make pop music as well, and my brain works differently, but it works perfectly in the creative space. So this is something I can do as well”.

Glamour: We interviewed Flowerovlove for Glamour’s Women of the Year awards and she has spoken out a lot about Black women being stereotyped in the pop music space – what has that looked like for you?

Cat: Luckily now, people are really good at saying I’m a pop artist and making sure that they say I do pop music. But I think early on in my career, maybe before Go blew up, there was still a blurred line and people were saying [I did] R&B.

Glamour: It’s all about the immediate assumption…

Cat: Yeah, and pushing past that.

Glamour: What makes you feel empowered?

Cat: Crying. I just think it’s the best thing to do. If I’m overwhelmed, I cry. If I’m sad, I cry, and I usually feel better after I cry, just let myself really feel my emotions, because they’re there to be felt. If you don’t feel them, you make yourself sick. So I think it’s very powerful to let yourself feel and not resist.

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