Cassie is featured on the Spring issue of American fashion publication V Magazine. The cover stars Justin Bieber and according to the staff it’s their most explosive and star-powered issue to date! With a fabulous brand new picture by legendary British photographer Mick Rock you can read Cassie’s part of the article below and view the scans in our gallery. V75 The Music Issue hits stands on January 12.

POP ROCKS
2012 is the year pop gets smarter, franker, and less false. As five fearless females prepare to release long-awaited records, punk’s guru of glam, Mick Rock, gives us a glimpse of the revolution
Photography Mick Rock
Text Patrik Sandberg
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R&B sensation Cassie knows a thing or two about the business herself, having blown up overnight in 2006—via MySpace—with her debut hit single, “Me & U.” An icy and addictive ballad, the track instantly rocketed her to number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spawned hundreds of Internet-bred remixes. The song has enjoyed unnatural longevity, and interest in the young performer hasn’t managed to wane. Good thing she isn’t short on material. “I have hundreds of songs recorded for this album,” she says in disbelief, driving through the hills of L.A. “I’ve been working on it for a long time. Finally, I had to decide my direction. I felt kind of exposed when I stopped working in the studio. My friends would call me to hang out and I would say, ‘nope, going in the studio,’ and they’d say, ‘you’ve been in the studio for four years!’”
The record itself maintains the dark and sultry elements of her early material but merges it with electronic dance, jungle, reggae, and even ska. “At the time I made the record I went out to Ibiza and I really started to feel these jungle beats,” she says. “But at the same time I wanted to keep the ‘Me and U’ tone, really simple and clean. I have a lot of friends who are DJs and they like to mix, so I like to leave a really clean skeleton with the vocal.”
The combination of these new influences with her clean style adds up to a perfect sum of what Cassie is all about this year. “In my video we called it ‘giving ’90s supermodel.’ It’s the perfect definition of who I am right now and what I’m going through,” she says, smiling. “People aren’t going to expect me to come out with what I have.”

Cassie wears
Dress Theyskens’ Theory
Jewelry her own

PICTURES LINKS:
- Magazines & Scans from 2012: V – Spring
- Photoshoots from 2012: Mick Rock [V]