Mickie James on New Album, Heels/Faces, Velvet Sky, and More

Former WWE Divas/Women’s Champion and TNA Knockouts Champion Mickie James has been very vocal as of late, doing lots of interviews for radio and news outlets. Recently, James joined the TJR Wrestling Radio crew to talk about her upcoming championship match against Velvet Sky, her new country album, the differences between heels and faces, and more. Some highlights of the interview are…

On her new country album “Somebody’s Gonna Pay” – “It took about a year to complete this album. I’m grateful that it did because we really took our time with it. We had a chance to make it right, make it really flow and make it a reflection of who I am. We had some of the best musicians in the world in the studio in Nashville – at least I felt like it – they were incredible. Hopefully people can connect with the album and love it. If they don’t then that’s okay too.”

The differences between heels and babyfaces –  “It’s been so long since I’ve been a heel (2006) that it’s really hard to judge. You can have a lot of fun playing a bad girl. You do get a chance to say a lot of things that you can’t when you’re a face. It’s a completely different kind of character. The babyface character is kind of close to who I am in real life except the volume is turned up all the way. As a heel you get to make twists and turns that really sell that character so that you can get that genuine kind of heat from people that want to hate you. I really think that some of the best heels are also those people that can really get reactions as babyfaces too. As a babyface you often think about what a heel might do to react to you too so that when you finally turn heel you visualize all that stuff.”

On her upcoming match against Velvet Sky for the Knockouts Championship – “Because we’ve been partners and worked together so much in the past I feel like we know each other’s stuff so well. It won’t be one of my easiest matches. I’m really hoping she feels up to par to go out there to wrestle because she has a knee injury and she was given the ringpost figure four by Gail Kim last week too.”

Mickie James’ album is available on multiple digital music platforms, including iTunes, and she will face Velvet Sky on IMPACT WRESTLING! Thursday, May 23rd. IMPACT WRESTLING! airs on Spike TV at 8pm ET. You can listen to the entire TJR Wrestling Radio broadcast here.

 

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