Not only did you act in "Christmas Is Canceled," but your single "The Same Way" is in it as well. Have you gotten to see it yet and hear your song in the movie?

I have not gotten to see the whole movie yet, which is killing me. But I'm very excited. I'm going to wake up early in the morning on Friday [December 17] and watch it the second that it's out. So I'm not sure where in the movie the song is, but I know that there's a good chunk of it in there.

And yeah, I was so excited because as a songwriter and a singer, I sort of just mentioned to the director, Prarthana Mohan, and the producers that I did music, and I would love to just take a stab at writing something for it, whether that's in the credits or the trailer, whatever. And I wrote this song coming from, you know, a character standpoint, and I guess it just resonated, and it was something that was going to work for them. And so, I'm very excited that it all kind of panned out that it is able to be in the movie.

So you wrote it from the character's point of view? Is that what inspired it?

I sort of just try to think about it from, not fully like "this is Emma singing to anyone," but there's elements of this longing for reciprocated love. And of course, it being around the holidays, I wanted it to have holiday elements. I'm not necessarily a big — This might be horrible to say, but I'm not a big Christmas fan myself. [Laughs] And so I don't really listen to a lot of Christmas music. I feel like any music in that genre that resonates with me happens to be, you know, a song that, like, takes place around the holidays, but it's not like sitting by the fireside and having eggnog. And so I wanted this song to kind of be similar to those that I really love. Think like — I don't know if you've ever heard the song "Winter Song" by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson, but that to me is one of my favorite sort of winter songs, I guess you could say. And that, sort of, was the direction that I went with this one.

In a way, it's relatable all year long.

Absolutely. And so just something that I felt like could — I don't know. It wasn't specific to all the details of the holiday, but it sort of had this metaphorical tie into Christmastime, I guess.