{"id":4061,"date":"2025-10-16T03:44:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countrymusictune.com\/?p=4061"},"modified":"2025-10-16T03:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:45:08","slug":"the-five-albums-that-changed-hailee-steinfelds-life-they-come-back-to-me-like-nothing-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/countrymusictune.com\/?p=4061","title":{"rendered":"The five albums that changed Hailee Steinfeld\u2019s life: \u201cThey come back to me like nothing else\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you haven\u2019t managed to catch Ryan Coogler\u2019s fantastic genre mash-up\u00a0Sinners<\/em>\u00a0yet, then we must entreat you to do so immediately and without delay.<\/p>\n

It is a thrilling and constantly surprising cocktail of\u00a0music, vampires, gore, steaminess and suspense, like Baz Luhrmann directing\u00a0From Dusk till Dawn<\/em>, and one of the best things about it is Hailee Steinfeld.<\/p>\n

Not only did she\u00a0write and record a song for the movie, but she also gives a hell of a performance as a jilted wife who is simmering with anger (to say the least), who goes on a personal journey that\u2019s packed full of threat, bravery, sex, and eventually redemption. You would imagine she will be right in the mix, along with many others in the cast, when awards season comes around.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the kind of journey, albeit minus the vampires, that Steinfeld has gone on in real life too, starting out in short films as a child actor before landing a \u2018Best Supporting\u2019 Oscar nomination for the 2010\u00a0True Grit<\/em>\u00a0reboot at just 13. But she struggled to find a hit project in the following years, appearing in the likes of strange sci-fi\u00a0Ender\u2019s Game<\/em>\u00a0and suffering a couple of abandoned movie roles.<\/p>\n

She did have a major hit alongside Anna Kendrick with\u00a0Pitch Perfect 2<\/em>\u00a0in 2015 though, and it was thanks to her playing some songs to a record label at a promo event for the film that she was signed up and released a debut single that proved to be one of the most successful for a first-time female artist in history.<\/p>\n

Since then, she\u2019s mixed music, TV and movies incredibly effectively, taking on the likes of big-budget superhero fare in addition to period drama and voicing animation. She\u2019s taken long breaks from recording in order to focus more on acting, but her musical influences show the kind of willingness to embrace different styles and ideas.<\/p>\n

In picking her favourite albums for\u00a0Elle<\/em>, Steinfeld chose records that span\u00a0Suffolk acoustic pop, \u201870s soft rock, and Canadian rap. Leading off with\u00a0Hotel California<\/em>\u00a0by The Eagles, Steinfeld said: \u201cI saw the Eagles perform years ago and I remember not really paying much attention to what was going on with the audience, but I knew every word to every song\u2026 This album is represented in so many family memories that, to this day, they come back to me like nothing else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next up was the posthumous double album\u00a0This Is It\u00a0<\/em>by Michael Jackson, explaining: \u201cI bought an \u2018I love Michael Jackson\u2019 shirt and I wore it all the time. Everybody would ask me what my favorite Michael Jackson song was and I would list every song off\u00a0This Is It<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another hit-packed album on Steinfeld\u2019s list is\u00a0+<\/em>\u00a0by our own Ed Sheeran, and she raves: \u201cThere are some songs that you listen to that you wish you could have written, and I feel like that\u2019s every song on this album for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harmony collective Boyz II Men also made the cut, with Steinfeld saying of their 1997 album\u00a0Evolution<\/em>: \u201cThis is the album where I realized that singing is an art\u2014what they do with their voices is so intricate and so incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, Steinfeld went with\u00a0Canadian hip-hop star Drake\u00a0and his album\u00a0Views<\/em>, saying: \u201cHe\u2019s done things that are different and I completely respect that. It\u2019s Drake, he can do anything, but there\u2019s so much in this album that I\u2019ve found myself referencing when I go into the studio wanting to make new music.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hailee Steinfeld\u2019s five favourite albums:<\/h2>\n
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  • Hotel California\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 The Eagles (1976)<\/li>\n
  • This is it\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 Michael Jackson (2009)<\/li>\n
  • +<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Ed Sheeran (2017)<\/li>\n
  • Evolution<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Boyz II Men (1997)<\/li>\n
  • Views<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Drake (2016)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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