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Tracks Citizen Soldier - Thank You for Hating Me (2021) - Dork

Critics in the industry told him he was "too chubby" to ever make it as a professional musician. Citizen Soldier - Thank You for Hating Me

He dealt with the personal trauma of having thousands of dollars stolen from him. Tracks Citizen Soldier - Thank You for Hating

Before the song became a viral hit, Segura faced a series of discouraging setbacks that he eventually used as fuel: Instead of letting these experiences break his spirit,

He was actually kicked out of his very first band because they didn't like his voice.

Instead of letting these experiences break his spirit, Segura wrote the track as a "reframe" of those memories. The core philosophy of the song is that —turning the "knives in his back" into lessons that made him a "lion" instead of a "sheep". A Full-Circle Moment