The teenage Margot learned to embrace eclecticism and her personal approach reflects the variety of her upbringing. “I love all kinds of music and I love all kinds of style and individualism. I guess it’s whatever I feel like. People always tell you to pick out the outfit the night before and it saves time, but I always change my mind.
“Music is my release,” she adds. “I grew up listening to everything. My parents were always playing funk tracks or albums and soul albums and then I got into jazz. Being from Pittsburgh, it’s a steel city, so I was definitely into rock ’n’ roll. It’s all tied into blues. I’m such a hybrid, I’m into all styles of music. I hope that my music is one of those musical experiences where every single person can connect to it on some level. I hope that anyone can walk into a venue and hear my music and get it. Because music touches me so much, I would want to make sure that I can come across and communicate to every single person that wants to listen to my work.”
Bingham’s love of music is evident even in her approach to acting. Preparing for her performance as Daughter Maitland, Bingham looked to song to gain insight into the nuances of the character.
“Because of her particular dialect and her voice, I sang every line that she had,” she shares. “So every script that I got, I learned from the dialect coach … to sing every word that she had, just make up a melody through it. I would find her voice — kind of through the song.”
