Sheep Dog AT said:
Perhaps, but she should make a comment on the issue.
The girl seems like a flake, but
From Mcleans
Kiesza attributes her success, in part, to an eclectic Western Canadian background—though
“people sometimes just take what I say and add their own [ideas].
They’re like, ‘She was a code-breaker.’ No, I was a naval communicator.”
She joined the navy reserves in high school; at 16, she attended summer
boot camp in Borden, Ont., where she wore full uniforms with woollen
socks in high heat, and was yelled at for a piece of lint on her bed.
She was even gassed in a gas chamber—as part of training with a gas
mask—to know what it feels like (“I’d say that’s the worst way to die”).
She was too much of a non-conformist for the armed forces,
but her training has stayed with her. It’s both a metaphor for her
“obsessive” drive (“I was able to lock into the target,” she says of her
gun skills, which won her the boot camp’s “top shot” award) and
practical preparation for a punishing pop star’s schedule: “The military
taught me to go past what I think my limits are.”
