‘Grown-ish’: Chloe X Halle Struggle with Campus Dating While Black [EUR Exclusive]

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*This week’s episode of “Grown-ish” takes a deeper look at dating in college, particularly at what it’s like to be a Black woman dating in today’s society.  This is a pivotal episode for star athletes Jazz (Chloe Bailey) and Skylar (Halle Bailey), who open up about how they’ve been striking out with the black males on campus, most of whom are interested in the Caucasian persuasion.

EUR/Electronic Urban Report caught up with budding sister starlets Chloe and Halle to dish about this very timely episode and the message they hope “people of all colors” take away from it.

“I love this episode because it shows everyone’s point of view and it’s tackling colorism,” Chloe tells EUR. The point of this entire episode is to just love yourself and not needing validation from anyone. I think that’s really important to not only Black women but all women. You don’t need anyone’s validation to love yourself.”

“The main thing that resonated with me is to know that I’m valuable and that I matter,” Halle adds. ”That is the key message that stuck out to me. No matter where you are, no matter how new of a setting you’re in, everything that you do, you do it in confidence and you don’t need other people’s validation in order to feel beautiful, in order to feel great about yourself. So for me, as a young woman, that was my message that I got from it.”

Scroll up to watch a preview via the clip above, and check out our quick Q&A with the sisters below.

The teenage sister duo will release their debut full-length album on March 23, titled “The Kids Are Alright,” which is available for pre-order here. The album features the “Grown-ish” theme song, “Grown,” as well as “Warrior” from Disney’s “A Wrinkle in Time.”

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The subject matter for this week’s show is so timely, and it left me wondering how much do Chloe and Halle relate to Jazz and Sky’s dating struggle?

CHLOE: I feel like any girl around the world, especially a young woman of color, can relate with learning how to deal with your insecurities and accepting them, and even though we know our skin is beautiful and we’re beautiful, sometimes the world doesn’t accept that, or know that, and we just have to stand in our power and realize that we don’t need any validation from anyone. And our parents have always taught us that you’re beautiful and what makes you different shines that beauty more. So we were just happy that we can share this story in such a fun way through Grown-ish and leave it for open dialogue so that people of all colors can understand.

I’m sure social media is going to light up after this episode, as this topic is both triggering and resonating for black women all over the globe. So what are you hoping black women are left talking about long after this episode ends?

Halle: I hope black woman take away that we are all valuable and we matter and that the color of our skin is beautiful and there’s gold within our skin. We are so very valuable and just because somebody might not see that doesn’t mean we don’t see that within ourselves. That’s definitely a message that we want all black girls to take away from this.

I’m older than you ladies and my generation didn’t find it all that challenging to date black men so I’m wondering just how bad is the dating scene for black women of your generation?

Chloe: For my sister and I, we’re in a relationship with our music, so we’re really focused on that and loving who we are. And I feel like that’s the first step in all of this — truly loving yourself and your skin and your melanin before you can love anyone else or let anyone love you. It’s self-love that comes first and I feel like beautiful black women all over the world, we know that, and that’s what makes us powerful. We don’t need validation from anyone. Of course, there’s obstacles no matter what the situation is, but we can always overcome. Just love yourself first, and sometimes that might not be an easy thing to do because we all have insecurities but you have to know your power before anyone else can see it.

Did exploring this topic change your perspective or approach to dating?

Chloe: My sister and I, music is our love and we’re so focused right now we’re not even thinking about dating, to be honest. We’re just focused on ourselves.

Speaking of which, talk about some of the themes you explore on your debut album.

Halle: Our album is called The Kids Are Alright and basically our album is dedicated to the youth, our generation, because with everything going on in the world today, it feels like there’s a lot on our shoulders but we’re just reminding everybody that we will overcome and that the kids are going to be alright. This album is just a body of work of self-discovery and getting to know who you are as a young adult and entering that new land of being grown and that’s exciting. We have a song called “High Low,” which is about loving your highs and loving your lows and loving everything that you are — your ups and your downs. Then we have another song on the album called “Everywhere,” which says “I got money everywhere,” which is basically about the power of manifestation and knowing that when you speak up something you can have it. When you just speak it out and are confident in yourself you can have anything that you want. So it’s definitely just this moment of self-discovery and getting to know ourselves as young women and taking our fans on this journey with us because they’re all going through the same thing we are.

“Grown-ish” airs Wednesdays at 8/7c on Freeform.

Check out the music video for their single “The Kids Are Alright” below.

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