Laura Marano started co-writing songs at 16, but her parents insisted on coming to every session. She felt it cramped her creativity, though she now sees they were protecting her. Her dad is the better cook.
You know, I started doing co-writing sessions as a songwriter, you know, when I was like 16, which basically means my team would set up like co-writing sessions with people I've never met before, and I would go in and, you know, write with them and, you know, record. And I think that when I was 16, I got my license. I'm like, I can drive. I didn't want my like parents to take me. I'm like, that's so uncool. Like, I wanna write by myself. I'm basically an adult. And my parents, you know, both, they would not let up and they're like, no, we're gonna be at that session with you. But yeah, I don't think I necessarily was my most creatively, uh, experimental with my parents being there. But I look back and I'm like, that would've been a little bit crazy being like a 16-year-old girl, just like consistently going to so many different sessions of so many different people. But I think I, took for granted how much both my parents were like, no, we're gonna be there and we're gonna, you know, very much be present to make sure like nothing happens.
Yeah, great parenting. Yeah. Who's the better cook, dad or mom?
Dad, without a doubt. Oh yeah, yeah. My mom, my mom, like my mom's cooking now, which I think shows that people can grow. Um, because she was not the cook, like
