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Speaker 1: This is the City and with her with Kate Riki

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Speaker 1: podcast age.

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Speaker 2: I don't know a lot of the.

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Speaker 3: Song to be Today we are focusing on a.

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Speaker 4: Song that has taken the world by storm, a recent

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Speaker 4: one by an amazing artist called Ray.

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Speaker 3: It is called where is My Husband? What a three?

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Speaker 3: What a Freak?

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Speaker 5: Now?

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Speaker 4: I did not know this, but Ray has written a

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Speaker 4: lot of music for other artists. She's written for Beyonce,

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Speaker 4: Charlie x X, John Legend, Little Mix, Ellie Golding. This

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Speaker 4: is her first album, Whip that she's gone out on

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Speaker 4: her own solo. And you know what, with a song

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Speaker 4: like this, you could have easily handed this over to Beyonce,

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Speaker 4: but she know what, She's done it for the first time,

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Speaker 4: and this is her talking about how.

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Speaker 3: Important it was for her to go solo.

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Speaker 6: Getting to make my own one was a really beautiful experience.

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Speaker 6: And then on top of that, getting to be recognized

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Speaker 6: and listened to by that It's just opened so many

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Speaker 6: doors of me. It's just blown my mind. A lot

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Speaker 6: of people thought that I would never have success as

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Speaker 6: an artist, I mean, so it's just also so vindicating

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Speaker 6: to be able to prove to myself that they were

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Speaker 6: just all chatting rubbish.

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Speaker 2: Because Ray Also she's saying escape isn't didn't she massive

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Speaker 2: song here.

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Speaker 4: And she's very talented song So the inspiration for the song,

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Speaker 4: I don't have an audio grab for that, but she's

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Speaker 4: written in an article. I was lying in bed one

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Speaker 4: night and I pray a lot. She's very religious, she said,

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Speaker 4: and I was praying. I had it really heavy on

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Speaker 4: my heart to pray for my future husband. I went

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Speaker 4: into the studio the next day and the lyrics came

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Speaker 4: so effortlessly, just flowing out of my heart. Now, the

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Speaker 4: song title is where is my husband? Exclamation mark? And

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Speaker 4: there's a few interpretations of that.

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Speaker 6: The exclamation mark is open for interpretation.

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Speaker 3: It's not like you got the husband, and it's like.

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Speaker 6: Well, actually know it could be that, like you could

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Speaker 6: have a husband, but just be wondering where he is

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Speaker 6: in that current moment that he went to the shop.

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Speaker 6: He was supposed to be back ten minutes ago.

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Speaker 3: Exactly kind of vib clearly in the pub.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so I wanted to create, you know, kind of

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Speaker 6: an open topic for single and married women. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I love that. We need to focus on the range

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Speaker 3: of her voice.

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Speaker 4: It is unbelievable and basically, we're about to play you

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Speaker 4: a live version of the song when we do play it,

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Speaker 4: and this is unbelievable. With a huge big band behind

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Speaker 4: her with she could basically do this song with her

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Speaker 4: own vocals. So she breaks down the chorus for us

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Speaker 4: in the studio.

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Speaker 3: Have a listener, right, like a dumb and ringing on.

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Speaker 6: My we welcome to my breakdown of my song. Originally

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Speaker 6: was just me going oh, but I was like, no,

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Speaker 6: We've got the lyrics, eight layers of me singing. I

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Speaker 6: would like a ring.

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Speaker 5: I would like a ring.

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Speaker 6: I would take one vocal and only in that speed.

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Speaker 6: Put one voice there, one voice there. You get this

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Speaker 6: kind of surround sound feeling in your headphones or in

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Speaker 6: your speakers or in your car. This is called pannic

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Speaker 6: lovely harmonies. I just thought it was quite funny. Yes, yes, yes, yes,

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Speaker 6: take the lead and the music with it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's awesome, isn't it crazy?

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Speaker 2: I love that.

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Speaker 4: Would you like to hear more isolated vocal please without

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Speaker 4: any of the music, because it's just it's crazy.

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Speaker 3: Listen, So.

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Speaker 7: Getting down with another tell tell it your husband is

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Speaker 7: coming like a diamond ring on my weather, big rubber

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Speaker 7: and dim and Deimer and Dimer.

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Speaker 6: Smart.

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Speaker 2: That's ah, oh my god, it's like a theater show.

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Speaker 3: That's their legacy. Right then, this is the.

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Speaker 4: Fitzi and Whipper with Cape Ritchie podcast.

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Speaker 1: Song the process of a hit song song.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is fascinating.

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Speaker 4: We go down the road and we we hear grabs

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Speaker 4: of how bands put songs together and artists put songs together.

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Speaker 4: It's fascinating. Actually, there's a great podcast you.

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Speaker 3: Need to listen to. It's called song Exploder.

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Speaker 4: To the point where they've actually filmed a couple of

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Speaker 4: Epps episode and put it up on Netflix. Actually, a

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Speaker 4: really good one if you want to go see. One

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Speaker 4: is Aram's Losing My Religion. That is an unbelieved so

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Speaker 4: big song. The one that we are focusing on today,

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Speaker 4: let's go back to two thousand and two with one

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Speaker 4: of the biggest rock songs of all time. It's Franz

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Speaker 4: Ferdinand's Take Me.

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Speaker 3: It was huge, wasn't it? It was just massive Scottish.

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Speaker 2: Fan am I right by saying it came out around

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Speaker 2: the same time as The Killers Mister Brightside.

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Speaker 4: It landed in Australia in two thousand and four.

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Speaker 3: Do you know why I remember that?

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Speaker 2: Where were you.

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Speaker 4: The night that I was booted out of Big Brother,

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Speaker 4: I couldn't sleep, like I just I was so excited.

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Speaker 4: I was too excited in the hotel room, going what

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Speaker 4: the hell is going on?

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Speaker 3: And I turned on.

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Speaker 4: Rage and this was the first song that came on Rage,

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Speaker 4: and I just went.

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Speaker 2: What It's great.

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Speaker 4: I've been stuck in this house for three months and

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Speaker 4: I've missed out on this song.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So anyway, let's let's hear from Alex, the lead singer,

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Speaker 4: and he is talking about the this is fascinating.

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Speaker 3: So he's in with the lead guitarists.

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Speaker 4: They're in a hotel room and they've got a little

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Speaker 4: Yamaha sort of organ keyboard whip, and they start putting

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Speaker 4: the demo together.

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Speaker 3: Have a listen to this. Yeah, I remember it very well.

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Speaker 5: I had an acoustic guitar and Nick was playing on

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Speaker 5: this little kind of keyboard thing.

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Speaker 3: So that was the original demo whip.

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Speaker 4: Now like that, let's focus on the Yamaha keyboard and

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Speaker 4: that sound that was playing, because that was an actual

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Speaker 4: there's a there's a twist to this.

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Speaker 3: Have a listen.

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Speaker 5: So that's the bluegrass accompaniment setting on a Yamaha keyboard

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Speaker 5: from the mid eighties.

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Speaker 2: Right, that's what presets sound.

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Speaker 4: It's a pre set on because remember Gorillas did that

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Speaker 4: and Damon Album spoke about one of their hit songs

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Speaker 4: just coming from one of the settings from one of

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Speaker 4: those Yamaha keyboards.

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Speaker 2: Awesome. Does Yamaha get royalties for that?

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Speaker 4: So then let's talk about the inspiration behind the lyrics

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Speaker 4: and what's going on, because there's a lot of shooting

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Speaker 4: and stuff in the lyrics that I was trying to

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Speaker 4: understand when I first heard the song. But let's talk

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Speaker 4: about a movie that he was watching the night before

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Speaker 4: that inspired him to write the song.

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Speaker 3: This is Alex talking.

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Speaker 5: The night before, I'd watched a film called Anime at

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Speaker 5: the Geats. One of the themes of the film is

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Speaker 5: this standoff between two snipers to Laws the Soviet Snaper

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Speaker 5: and Ad Harris's the evil Nazi, that both kind of

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Speaker 5: tucked away had from each other, waiting for the other

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Speaker 5: to make a move, because as soon as the other

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Speaker 5: makes a move, the other will know where they are

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Speaker 5: and will take them out.

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Speaker 4: You write a song just from that, and that's how

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Speaker 4: the lyrics came together, so I could write.

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Speaker 5: So you can't really tell what I'm talking about here,

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Speaker 5: am I talking about snipers? Or am I talking about

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Speaker 5: some kind of romantic situation. I wrote down a bunch

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Speaker 5: of imagery straight away for the idea for the verses.

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Speaker 5: So if you're lonely, you know I'm here waiting for you.

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Speaker 5: I'm just a crosshair, just a shot away from you.

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Speaker 2: Tied in the actual Sniper of love.

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Speaker 3: So it was from a sniper movie tied into romance.

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Speaker 4: And then you've got the guitars that are in this

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Speaker 4: song are just unbelievable, and how the tempo of the

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Speaker 4: songs gets fast and then it slows down. But he

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Speaker 4: talks about putting all the guitars together.

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Speaker 5: Took the three notes and put them on the three

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Speaker 5: different instruments, the beasts guitar one, the guitar two, which

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Speaker 5: felt pretty cool to me.

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Speaker 3: I find this fascinating. It's just fascinating how it all

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Speaker 3: comes together. It starts in our hotel room. Then you

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Speaker 3: layer the guitars and then you produce a song like this.

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