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Speaker 1: Mercedes Fens Interview Lounge. I love this place. The door

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Speaker 1: opens and someone like Louis Tomlins and walks. They're like, whoa,

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Speaker 1: this is nice. Hello, welcome to the day, welcome to

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Speaker 1: the show. Nice to see us again. Okay, it's nice

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Speaker 1: to see we're okay. You know we're getting ready for

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Speaker 1: the big storm. Louis. Yeah, I've heard about that. It's

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Speaker 1: all the rage, isn't it all the talk around here?

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Speaker 1: I know you have a big show tonight here in

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Speaker 1: New York City to celebrate the album. But your flight

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Speaker 1: tomorrow at six pm, that's gonna be you're kicking it close. Yeah, yeah, that's.

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Speaker 2: One way of announcement to the funds. Yeah, next time

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Speaker 2: we might change that. Flying it's all top secret. Hey

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Speaker 2: but wait, so do you have to be somewhere?

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Speaker 1: So I was in jay much and you squirm a

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Speaker 1: little bit. There was a squirm, a little squirm. Hey,

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Speaker 1: So okay, so you gotta get out of time tomorrow

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Speaker 1: night at some time, maybe about four or three nice,

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Speaker 1: maybe nine or ten? We go, Yeah, who knows, and

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Speaker 1: flights are never on time anyway, there you go. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so you need to be somewhere Sunday. Yes, Okay, what

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Speaker 1: days they say Friday, y'all, but you're leaving on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: You need to be there Sunday. But what if you can't.

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Speaker 1: What if you're stuck in New York City? What if

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Speaker 1: you're stranded? That wouldn't be idea.

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Speaker 2: I've got I've got some I've got like a fun event,

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Speaker 2: and I got some signings over the week.

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Speaker 1: So definitely do with getting back, I know. But mother

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Speaker 1: nature is bigger than us.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, maybe I could get everyone on zoo

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Speaker 2: and I'll just sign them. You know, watch it, you

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Speaker 2: make it work.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're gonna be fine. I predict great things. If

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Speaker 1: you need to use the plane, borrow the plane, let

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Speaker 1: me know. I got the plane. I definitely do now,

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Speaker 1: I definitely do now. Yeah, yeah, I got a plane.

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Speaker 1: I got a plane. Great, it has United written on it. Okay, okay, right?

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Speaker 3: Is that something that you actually have to pay attention

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Speaker 3: to though, like not accidentally mentioning where you're going to

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Speaker 3: be at a certain time because people will.

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Speaker 2: Up here one thousand percent. Yeah, since I've been eighteen

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Speaker 2: years old, definitely.

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Speaker 1: I think I think.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm looking to have a fun base that

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Speaker 2: love all the finer details and that kind of stretches

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Speaker 2: to even things like this.

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Speaker 1: You know, well, some people are more eager than others

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Speaker 1: to be close and touch you. Yeah. As a matter

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Speaker 1: of fact, there's one person in this room that is

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Speaker 1: that person. Can you guess who it might be? Is

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Speaker 1: it you Elvis? I've already I already touched you earlier?

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Speaker 4: Okay, Abby, come here.

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Speaker 1: Come here, she's she's trying to get some video going here. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: By the way, we're live on Instagram. That's what Abby's

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Speaker 1: doings York. Now. So she walked in and said, I

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Speaker 1: got to meet Yeah, I mean big day. So are

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Speaker 1: you one of the people that should not be told

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Speaker 1: what time has playing?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 5: No, no, never, never. I just I would never cross

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Speaker 1: But what line would you cross? That's a good question.

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Speaker 4: None.

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Speaker 1: None that are bad.

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Speaker 5: None that are bad.

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Speaker 1: Okay, no lines are crossed, Okay, okay, all right, go

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Speaker 3: But like that level of fandom has to be wild

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Speaker 3: because I read and I need to know if it's

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Speaker 3: true that you actually lost part of your hearing because

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Speaker 3: the fans scream still allowed for such a long time.

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Speaker 1: You know, I thought I did for ages because I

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Speaker 2: You know. My inn on it is that the singers

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Speaker 2: and I didn't. I think I have my age checked

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Speaker 2: a couple of times. But no, I was actually fine.

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Speaker 1: So which is a good ear? I think they're both good.

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Speaker 1: To be fair, I think I was just I always.

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Speaker 1: But the same thing. I went in and he said,

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Speaker 1: you're fine. You know what this is. This is a

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Speaker 1: good chat guys. Delusional people. Okay, well, but we're just

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Speaker 1: trying to get that out of the way because this

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Speaker 1: is the important stuff. We're talking about. That silly old album.

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Speaker 1: Of course, how did I get here? I love it.

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Speaker 1: I love it when artists come to New York City

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Speaker 1: on album release day. You visit our best friend Jimmy

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Speaker 1: Fallon down the street. It's always that's a lot of

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Speaker 1: fun to be on that show, isn't.

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Speaker 2: This It's intense though, it's like, no reckon, I do

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Speaker 2: like those kind of light like the TV is like

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Speaker 2: it's a bit jittery, you know, like I've got like

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Speaker 1: But it's a different thing doing TV. It's it's just

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Speaker 1: a different thing. But it was good. It was great performance,

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Speaker 1: it was good interview. He's always lovely, so it's a

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Speaker 1: great show to be on. The times I've been on,

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Speaker 1: there's that moment when you're standing at the curtain, right

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Speaker 1: and the guy's hands on the curtain. You hear the

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Speaker 1: band on the other side and Louis Thomlinson, and then

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Speaker 1: he opens that curtain and then your heart kind of

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Speaker 1: comes up your you vomit up your heart. But then

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Speaker 1: it's good because he's such a great guy. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: he's a fan of yours, you could tell, So that's good.

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Speaker 1: You only be interviewed by your fans. That's why I'm

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Speaker 1: glad you're hearing nice. Nice. All right, let's talk about

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Speaker 1: the album. What's remarkable about this album? If you haven't

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Speaker 1: heard the story, Louis started recording this of course in

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Speaker 1: up in Costa Rica for almost a month, three weeks

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Speaker 1: with an incredible, incredible surrounding, with the environment the way

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Speaker 2: It's been a dream of mine for a while to

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Speaker 2: write and record the record in, you know, a place

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Speaker 2: that felt like paradise, that was really beautiful and also

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Speaker 2: actually do anything or do that was absolutely definitely. I

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Speaker 2: You don't write a record that's sunny if you write

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Speaker 2: all in England, that's for sure. And yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: Right of course, away from the static. It is a

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Speaker 1: places you visit, you go I could live here. Definitely,

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Speaker 1: You're right, yeah, definitely. So what do we hear? What

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Speaker 1: for that would say to us, okay, that is inspired

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Speaker 2: Interestingly, Sunflowers was written in England but kind of longing

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Speaker 2: and I struggled with that writing chicks. My head was

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Speaker 2: I think that the thing that I'm most proud of

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Speaker 2: And yeah, I feel like we got there, definitely. So

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Speaker 2: I'm really thankful also to the you know, the people

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Speaker 1: Excellent.

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Speaker 3: So as you're writing this album, you're writing about some

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Speaker 3: you are going to be performing it.

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Speaker 5: Do you relive all of these things or has writing

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Speaker 5: it and releasing it allowed you to let it go.

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Speaker 1: That's a good question. Kind of a combination of the two.

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Speaker 2: I think definitely, the first time you perform a song,

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Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, by the way, if you're just turning

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Speaker 1: get here? Of course is the album that? Of course,

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Speaker 1: you know. And of course the album was released, was released,

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Speaker 1: and I think, well, not the album was just released.

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Speaker 1: The single Lemonade actually was released in September of last year, right,

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Speaker 1: while then you released that. Typically how these albums come out,

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, what about these Easter eggs? Like I like,

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Speaker 6: I feel like tailors like the queen of dropping the

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Speaker 6: Easter eggs? Right, And I think you dropped a couple

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Speaker 6: of Easter eggs about this album? Now do you come

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Speaker 2: It's a combination. I can't take all the credit myself, obviously,

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Speaker 2: but it's a combination. And those things I've always been

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Speaker 2: and for me it's it's always about pushing community. So

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Speaker 2: people working together, that's something really beautiful about the fan base.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, along the way with these little easter eggs,

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Speaker 2: get the name of the record. And yeah, I love

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Speaker 2: those littlements because it gives people an excuse to kind

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Speaker 2: of work together.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Yeah, I truly believe the way you do it

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Speaker 1: is a way to do it. Drop some easter eggs,

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Speaker 1: give them an early single and eases into it. Not

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Speaker 1: just like Kickers Upside the head with it some surprising album.

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Speaker 1: They want together too much.

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Speaker 5: They figure out which flight he's on, and then that's

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Speaker 5: a problem.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, by the way, I hear, now he's leaving

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Speaker 1: next Thursday. Nice.

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Speaker 6: Can I ask something about your son? So your son's

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Speaker 6: So you were saying that when your son comes to

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Speaker 1: that I would with it be in this morning collection. No, no,

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Speaker 6: There's a lot of versions of the album, right.

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Speaker 1: Like the targets too many? Not too many, because I

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Speaker 5: Thank you, I love you.

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Speaker 1: You keep thinking from the perspective of a fan, honestly,

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Speaker 2: God, no, I'm not very good at listening to other people,

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Speaker 1: What you have that in comment?

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Speaker 2: Did you say something I did listen, I'll always I'll

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Speaker 1: But I I want to hear that album. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: want to hear the Rejects album. Right, Well, there's a reason.

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Speaker 6: When you're out on tour, you always sing some one

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Speaker 1: But also it's a fun.

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Speaker 5: Damn.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm about to play you a song off the

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Speaker 1: Then let's let's say you've heard it already. The songs

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Speaker 1: Does that make sense? Yes? Yeah, that's why I love interviews.

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Speaker 2: That's been the story of my life, to be fair,

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Speaker 2: let me go he said about Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Look at that. Yeah, what are you doing behind my

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Speaker 1: back story of my life? Oh? Come on, lady, was

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Speaker 7: No, I didn't hear him say you must have played

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Speaker 1: Someone who pays for that? I mean, if you if

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Speaker 1: And how does that work?

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Speaker 2: There's this, there's there's there's a there's a royalty to that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So that you sing it, there more money you make

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Speaker 1: from you? Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, this is a racket.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So as you gear up for these, you know,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you mean the great pr spin.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, ever pitched ridiculous pr ideas before the album comes out.

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Speaker 1: Not really? Well, got idea? Okay, cool, got a baby,

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Speaker 1: like pomping on my chest? You bring me back to life?

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Speaker 1: Good god man, it's day number two of album released.

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Speaker 1: As I said that, I was willing to listen and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're just headed a dirty word, but now we

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Speaker 1: Yes, So this is the dumb button that so if

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Speaker 1: you leaked to me fly. It's too late. We've had

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Speaker 1: All right, look the album? Of course? How did I

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Speaker 1: in New York City. Six hundred people, A good club gig,

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Speaker 1: you here in the frigid temperature.

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Speaker 2: Definitely, definitely, Yeah, I'm really excited. Those kind of gigs

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Speaker 2: are those club gigs are always really really fun.

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Speaker 1: But like you say, it is light boxing. Actually it's

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Speaker 1: a pure celebration.

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Speaker 2: You know. There's been a lot of kind of pressure

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Speaker 2: and a lot of anticipation leading up to this, and

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Speaker 2: tonight will just be a celebration.

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Speaker 1: Definitely. We'll get out of here. You got work to do.

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Speaker 1: Catch that fly, But I want to play a song.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna play imposture. I think can I play? All right?

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Speaker 1: Do I write a.

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Speaker 4: Check at some point?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's goddess by the shortened curs. All right, Louis,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming in. You know I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna do too. I'm gonna play impostor and then I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna come back and play a story in my life

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Speaker 1: because you've been You're a guy and needs to listen

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Speaker 1: to it again. You're you. You were officially one of

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Speaker 1: the writers, so you will get money from all the

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Speaker 1: You should be thanking us for making you so wealthy.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you all right? What would I do

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Speaker 1: without you? Guys? This is also Louis Tomlinson. Thanks you coming.

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Speaker 1: This is imposter