Apparently pop newcomer Katy Rose has been hearing some criticism of late and lashed out on her official website’s journal last month. She writes, “The more successful one gets, the more anxious people are to knock them down. The green eyed monster that possesses beings in the depths of their jealousy and greed is more malicious than any other. This is a sad fact that I learned
very early on in life. ‘Everybody must get stoned,’ Bob Dylan sang in regards to- not drugs- but, all of the people out there that feel the urge to build you up just to knock you down. There are moments in time that I believe everyone is just on the edge of
their seats in anticipation for my inevitable demise. If people are going to love me or hate me, let them do so for my words. Let
me not be an object to squander and sell. never again will I just be a sex toy or a drug bunny. If you insist on judging, do not do so until you have truly read my words… lyrics… poetry…etc…Know that by being a coward and insulting behind my back, you only embarrass yourself. I may feel the brief pain as an old wound is opened; but I can take pain- and if it doesn’t kill me it will-in fact- make me stronger. I’m back in Los Angeles with unsteady feet and an overactive mind. Writing, writing, writing… in my own world. Dealing with life by simply not dealing.”

Los Angeles isn’t all roses and sunshine for pop newcomer Katy Rose. “I’m definitely not chipper,” the 16-year-old tells Chart magazine. “That’s like the antithesis of me. [My music is] definitely coming from a sad level. I wouldn’t say angry, if anything, I’m more angry at myself than anyone else. It’s not like, Alanis-type angry or Mandy Moore-chipper pop-happy stuff. I think it’s all coming from a dark side. There are elements of hope that appear very subtly. There are no songs that are completely about hope, or completely happy.”

KriSeLen.com caught up with Katy Rose for a Q&A and asked the singer about comparisons to Avril Lavigne and Liz Phair and what she thinks sets her apart from the others. “I knew that I would inevitably be compared to other artists when I began this process,” Rose said. “The masses need something pull from when they’re exposed to new music. The general population is also rather uneducated on the topic of music. That’s fine. The fact of the matter is, is that it is blatantly obvious that I’m ‘different’ or rather that I am my own person and artist when people listen to the record and/or my B-sides ect… People will judge. That is a sad truth in life; but I just have to prepare myself for that. I basically just stay in my own world and make my own music. I haven’t really heard all that much of Avril’s music, but I commend her for working hard at whatever it is she’s doing (and the same goes for everyone else out there).”