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Speaker 1: Our next guest is a musical.

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Speaker 2: I can't responsible for so many amazing tunes that were

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Speaker 2: not love.

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Speaker 3: It's just the.

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Speaker 1: Beginning, that's right.

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Speaker 2: Member of the Spice Girls, Okay, I spotted Spice now

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Speaker 2: turned judge on the Voice Australia.

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Speaker 1: Please welcome to the Show of Melanie.

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Speaker 3: And she joins us right now, Melanie's say good.

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Speaker 1: Morning, good morning, how are you.

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Speaker 4: I'm very well. Where are we talking to you from

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Speaker 4: this morning?

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Speaker 1: I'm in London at the moment, I'm at home.

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Speaker 4: Oh, back at home? Is it nice to be home?

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Speaker 4: Or are you missing our beautiful Australian shores?

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Speaker 1: Do you know what?

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Speaker 5: I've done so much traveling recently. It's good to be home,

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Speaker 5: but I see Australia is a bit of a second home.

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Speaker 5: So I do miss you guys, although it is summer here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know. It's always hard being away from summer,

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Speaker 3: isn't it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Now tell me how was your time down on that?

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Speaker 4: We absolutely love having you here. I mean Australians embrace

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Speaker 4: shows like the Voice. We love it when big stars

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Speaker 4: come out from overseas and take over our shows.

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Speaker 3: How was it?

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Speaker 5: Absolutely loved every minute of it. I just I love

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Speaker 5: being in Australia, the lifestyle, it just suits me down

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Speaker 5: to the ground and to be on the Voice. It's

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Speaker 5: the show I love in that genre, in that world

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Speaker 5: of shows, it's the one I've always watched and always enjoyed.

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Speaker 5: And I just had such a great team of people

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Speaker 5: to work with every day.

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Speaker 1: It's like you can't call it where you know.

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Speaker 5: We just went in, we were entertained, we had brilliant

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Speaker 5: singers and we just had a right good laugh.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, what an incredible thing to do.

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Speaker 4: I may before we get to the singers who are

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Speaker 4: on your team, there is this kind of I feel

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Speaker 4: like resurgence of girl power and boy power.

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Speaker 3: I know we've got you got Roan and keating from Boyson.

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Speaker 4: When you see these amazing singers up there in your mind,

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Speaker 4: do you ever look at pacing them together like a

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Speaker 4: girl band, because I feel like we haven't.

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Speaker 3: Had one for a while.

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Speaker 4: We're missing the spot, we're missing boys on We're seeing

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Speaker 4: the Backstreet Boys touring again.

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Speaker 5: It's so interesting, isn't it, Because it's kind of it's

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Speaker 5: a time where we don't have as many new girl

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Speaker 5: and boy bands coming through, but on that stage, you know,

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Speaker 5: it's difficult. It's really difficult because I think there's something

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Speaker 5: just like so magical about when a band like that,

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Speaker 5: like a like a music group, when it works, you know,

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Speaker 5: something like the Spice Girls and Boyzone, it just the

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Speaker 5: stars aligne. You know, you need those different personalities, you

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Speaker 5: need those different vocal tones to just work together. So

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Speaker 5: I think that would be quite a big undertaking to

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Speaker 3: Does it take a genius to put a band like

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Speaker 3: that together?

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to give it and Paul that mantle.

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Speaker 1: It worked in one direction.

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Speaker 4: Hey market there, But you have some amazing singers in

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Speaker 4: your team. The one that got me, and I've watched

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Speaker 4: her audition over hundreds of times, is Cassie Henderson.

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Speaker 3: She's from New Zealand, but in Australia we claim.

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Speaker 4: New Zealand as when they're very very good, so we're

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Speaker 4: claiming her as our own.

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Speaker 3: When she watched it with her parents. Is amazing. But

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Speaker 3: what a voice, what a performer.

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Speaker 5: The think is with Cassie, it feels like she's already

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Speaker 5: a star. You know, sometimes she just has that star quality.

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Speaker 5: She's got a great voice, she moves well, you know,

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Speaker 5: she's really comfortable in that world on that stage. So yeah,

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Speaker 5: she's was one of my favorites from the very beginning.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, have you seen that audition where she's watching it

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Speaker 4: with her parents?

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Speaker 1: Do you know what I've not seen that. I need

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Speaker 1: to go back and watch.

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Speaker 3: That with her mom and dad watching and dad's crying.

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Speaker 2: I think she even she even catches her dad constantly

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Speaker 3: Like, it's very She's my favorite.

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Speaker 1: Ah. They all do so well though.

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Speaker 5: It's incredible, you know because obviously being there and kind

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Speaker 5: of when you're there live in the studio, it's there's

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Speaker 5: so to watch things back, and of course because we

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Speaker 5: only get to see them what you've turned around.

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Speaker 1: So I've really enjoyed.

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Speaker 5: Having the opportunity to, you know, to see that people's

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Speaker 5: stories and and see them like it's when they approach

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Speaker 5: You can hear the reading down and the bike.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, it's it's such a lovely thing to be

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Speaker 1: a part of. It's a great show, you know.

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Speaker 2: The other skill you get out of this show is

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Speaker 2: you know, when you're opening presents in front of someone

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Speaker 2: and you have to put on the face like you

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Speaker 2: love the gift.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I like watching the show back and when you guys

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Speaker 2: hit the buzzer and then I try and watch your

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Speaker 2: reactions like went too early on that. Wonder do we

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Speaker 2: regret having the button.

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Speaker 3: The button regards?

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Speaker 5: Honestly, like watching yourself on these shows is the worst thing.

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Speaker 5: I have to watch it because you know, I want

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Speaker 5: to get better at what I do, but it's like

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Speaker 5: cring real.

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Speaker 4: So there was this amazing moment where you bought out.

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Speaker 4: It was sort of your secret weapon, Emma Bunton popped

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Speaker 4: up on the screen. How long do you sit with

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Speaker 4: that in your back pocket for when you know you've

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Speaker 4: got to try and win someone over.

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Speaker 1: One of these things.

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Speaker 5: It's all tough decisions the whole way along, because you

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Speaker 5: know you've only got ten spaces to fill and you've

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Speaker 5: got oh god knows, it feels like one hundreds of

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Speaker 5: people that you see and it's like, oh my goodness,

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Speaker 5: this person is so good. I think it's hard when

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Speaker 5: you're getting towards closing your team because you're like these

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Speaker 5: like spaces are becoming more and more precious, and sometimes

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Speaker 5: you kick yourself because you're like, oh man, I've used

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Speaker 5: up my goals and this person is so amazing. So

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Speaker 5: I think if I have the opportunity to do the

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Speaker 2: So you know what she's saying is she did have

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Speaker 2: Button regret, Lauren, That's what I'm doing.

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Speaker 1: My team are incredible. I love my team.

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Speaker 5: The favorite thing about my team is how diverse they are,

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Speaker 5: you know, like musically, personality wise, I think I've got

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Speaker 5: a really good, really good balance of artists.

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Speaker 2: Just quickly on Emma Button is she's still doing radio

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Speaker 2: over there?

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Speaker 1: She was doing radio, is she is? Yeah? She works

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Speaker 1: on Global over here. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Is a show on heart to be able to drag

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Speaker 2: you into this insistuous industry.

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Speaker 3: That we've done radio.

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Speaker 5: You know what, I've done a little bit of radio,

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Speaker 5: and I did some stuff on Radio two and it's

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Speaker 5: like one of the BBC stations here. It is the

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Speaker 5: most terrified think live radio. I remember because I used

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Speaker 5: to sit in sometimes for some of the other DJs

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Speaker 5: like my shoulders would drop and I just like slide

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Speaker 1: So I have I have.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I have so much respect for you. I think

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Speaker 5: it's a beautiful thing to do. It's so lovely when

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Speaker 5: you feel sometimes that you're just talking to a person, right,

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Speaker 5: you know, you're hoping you more than one person listening.

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Speaker 2: Right, it feels you make it tell a lot more

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Speaker 2: work than what we put in. I'll be honest.

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Speaker 5: No, it's a skill. It's like all of these things, right,

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Speaker 5: you know. I think a lot of artists, you know,

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Speaker 5: I've performed at Wembley and Madison Square Garden and all

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Speaker 5: these places. But then put me in a TV show

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Speaker 5: and I'm like, this isn't my skill set. So it's

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Speaker 5: you know, we just we continue to learn, and I

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Speaker 5: think you really have to appreciate that everything is a skill.

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Speaker 3: And if you still get nervous with all your.

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Speaker 5: Experiences always I get nervous for everything.

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Speaker 4: Really.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes it's a blooming nightmare. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I'm not trying to compare the sparse girls to my kids'

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Speaker 2: school musical. But the other week my eight year old

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Speaker 2: and my nine year old was very nervous, and I'm like,

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Speaker 2: apparently nerves are a good thing. When you don't have

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Speaker 2: nerves and you're not nervous, that's when you shit the bit.

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Speaker 5: That well the thing is and this is something that

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Speaker 5: we try to teach the people that we're working with

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Speaker 5: on The Voice. Is like, there's like a sweet spot, right,

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Speaker 5: because adrenaline is an amazing thing. You know, it gives

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Speaker 5: you this energy in some sense. It didn't make you

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Speaker 5: guys know right your performance it makes you superhuman. But

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Speaker 5: too much adrenaline too, you know, if you're nerves too heavy,

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Speaker 5: they can really scupy your performance. So it's just trying to,

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Speaker 5: you know, stay within that little balance, which is tough.

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Speaker 2: She's a good coach. The Voice enters the second stage

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Speaker 2: battles starting Sunday seven of September on Channel seven. Melanie said,

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Speaker 2: is a wise a pleasure, thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: joining us.

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Speaker 1: We love you. On the stow I will see you

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Speaker 1: soon

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Speaker 4: And Lauren Lauren wake up feeling good following them on

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Speaker 4: the socials