It’s been quite a busy month for , with the pop star coming second on this year’s season of and preparing to release her new EP later this week. While she’s been a fixture in Australian pop culture since winning in 2012, the singer-songwriter admits that she recently considered stepping away from the spotlight. Following the on Monday night, Samantha told that she went into the reality show lacking confidence in not only herself as a dancer but also as an artist.
In fact, she says she contemplated giving up music altogether before joining the competition. “I feel like as artists we go through these ups and downs. The highs are extremely high sometimes, the lows are extremely low, and I do experience anxiety and I feel like it's not always great,” she details.
“It’s obviously the highlight reel on Instagram and Facebook, and I do like to keep it that way because for me it’s a profile and it's my job, but there are moments where I sit at home and think, ‘Should I even do this anymore? Why am I bothering?’. “To be fully transparent, there are a lot of times when I am a bit of a mess and don't believe in myself. And then it takes my people to get around me and really build me back up to even go into the studio because I’m like, ‘No one will care if I put something out’.
You lose confidence and it sometimes gets low.” Samantha reveals that she received the call to appear on the show late last year while she was doing “Christmas corporate gigs”, an.