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Speaker 1: One oh three five Kiss FM, Chicago's number one hit

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Speaker 1: music station. I'm Bella and I've got the lovely sill

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Speaker 1: over here sale. How are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm good? How are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm great? I'm just so happy to be in your presence.

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Speaker 1: You have no idea any waiting for this interview, Like,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I've been so excited. I've been studying you,

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Speaker 1: stalking the socials, you know, as one does. So you know,

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Speaker 1: don't mind me, just creeping.

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Speaker 2: Don't worry you want to.

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Speaker 1: So I was creeping that you're a self taught pianist

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Speaker 1: and singer.

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Speaker 2: That's a stretch, but yes, I did teach myself piano.

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Speaker 2: That's so cool.

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Speaker 1: I can you teach myself anything. So now it's like

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Speaker 1: you go from this self taught, you know, girl in

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Speaker 1: your parents' basement as you were saying, and now you're

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Speaker 1: headlining for Dualipa. How does that feel like? Have you

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Speaker 1: had like an I made it moment?

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Speaker 2: Yet?

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Speaker 1: I know, like the tour just started, so it's like

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Speaker 1: kind of fresh. But what is that like?

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Speaker 2: I mean, any moment that I'm on stage singing to people,

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Speaker 2: I think is in I made it moment? Yeah, because

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Speaker 2: it's the whole point, do you know what I mean? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's all. That's the whole reason that you do it.

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Speaker 2: If there's fifty people in front of you or a

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Speaker 2: hundred thousand people in front of you, like that is

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Speaker 2: what we've all wanted and what every artist wants. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so I think that I've had a million I made

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Speaker 2: it moments just by singing on stage and having that opportunity.

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Speaker 2: It definitely feels surreal, you know, being on this tour,

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Speaker 2: and I'm so thankful to do it for the opportunity.

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Speaker 2: It's just incredible, and she's incredible, and she's an artist

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Speaker 2: that I look up to a lot. So it's been

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Speaker 2: really fun and it just started, so a lot more

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Speaker 2: experiences to go.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, one hundred percent. And this is not

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Speaker 1: this is not the final stop. You've got a lot

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Speaker 1: ahead of you. But I saw so I as I

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Speaker 1: was saying creeping on the socials, stumbled upon TikTok, and

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Speaker 1: I saw that you have a new song coming out

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Speaker 1: next week called something like this. I am so excited

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Speaker 1: for it. You you have so much soul in your voice.

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Speaker 1: You get that a lot I do. Yeah, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's like incredible. Thank you, goose bumps.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: But can you tell me give me a little sneak peek, like,

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Speaker 1: what should you what should like a what should I

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Speaker 1: expect from this song? Well?

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Speaker 2: I think that the song itself, it's so you know,

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Speaker 2: different from a lot of things that I've done in

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Speaker 2: the past, mainly because it's this opportunity for me to

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Speaker 2: explore my femininity and explore what it means to feel

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Speaker 2: confident in myself without feeling like that confidence is coming

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Speaker 2: from a partner or a relationship or whatever, like any

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Speaker 2: outside source. It feels very internal. As much as the

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Speaker 2: song is, it's very sexy, it's very you know, and

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Speaker 2: it really brings that out of me. I think it's

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Speaker 2: the first time that I've able I've been able to

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Speaker 2: explore my sensuality on a record, truly, but also without

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Speaker 2: any expectations or any anybody's opinion surrounding me, you know

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Speaker 2: what I mean. And I think that what you can

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Speaker 2: expect is just it's very confident, and my hope is

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Speaker 2: that it can invoke confidence and self love and other

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Speaker 2: people as well. You know. I think that you can

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Speaker 2: just expect to feel really sexy and have so much

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Speaker 2: fun when you're listening to the record.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to feel so sexy.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's genuinely like it. It is one of those

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Speaker 2: songs that I just like. I listened to it and

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Speaker 2: I just I feel like I can be myself and

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Speaker 2: I'm there's like space being held for that, you know

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Speaker 2: what I mean. And it's so interesting because the song

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Speaker 2: is waiting. It's the lyric is like I've been patient.

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Speaker 2: I've been waiting for something like this. And the way

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Speaker 2: I take that, I think, is like I've been waiting

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Speaker 2: for this new version of myself outside of my past

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Speaker 2: relationships or my past traumas or issues or self confidence issues,

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Speaker 2: like I've been waiting for this version of myself to

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Speaker 2: finally come into fruition. And here I am. And it's

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Speaker 2: a celebratory moment for me and I hope for everybody

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Speaker 2: that listens to it.

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Speaker 1: I am so excited. And can we know what date

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Speaker 1: it's going to drop? Next week?

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Speaker 2: It's going to drop September twelve.

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Speaker 1: September twelve, Sorry, I get marking it on my calendar,

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Speaker 1: like as we speak.

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Speaker 2: Please September twelfth. And I'm so excited. Everything's getting very

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Speaker 2: fuzzy with the door but it's I'm excited.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is very exciting time. And I saw that

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Speaker 1: you have a little at a James tattoo. So I

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Speaker 1: was thinking, so, what is an artist that you wish

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Speaker 1: you could collab from present, past, future? No, I'm kidding

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Speaker 1: for the past. It's like, uh, like would just be

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Speaker 1: like your dream.

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Speaker 2: Collab Prince, Prince, Prince, I would love to hear you guys.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I just like I can't even imagine

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Speaker 2: it would be it would be Prince, or it would

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Speaker 2: be Ran Wilson. I think that would be incredible, like

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Speaker 2: those I just I've I really love old music. I

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Speaker 2: really really love it. It connects to my soul. I

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Speaker 2: don't know why.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say, you're like giving old soul, like,

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Speaker 1: you know, like in a good way. Yeah, Like you're

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Speaker 1: very approachable and like.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's you know, I grew up in

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Speaker 2: a big family and and with a lot of I

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Speaker 2: mean extended family, and I was really grateful in that

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Speaker 2: and blessed in that way to have so much you know,

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Speaker 2: education about you know, the past and and music from

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Speaker 2: the past, you know, especially for my grandpa and my grandmother,

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Speaker 2: and so it really just like get connected with me.

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Speaker 2: And I think that I am a very nostalgic person

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Speaker 2: as much as I am so young and don't have

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Speaker 2: much to be nostalgic about yet, but I I just

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Speaker 2: I love the feeling of taking people up to a

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Speaker 2: certain place. And I think that old me music, especially

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Speaker 2: the music that I've that I love and listen to

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Speaker 2: and I've collected in my own vinyls and everything. It

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Speaker 2: always takes me to the place, you know, whether it

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Speaker 2: was the place I was in or the place that

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Speaker 2: I can only imagine they were in when they were

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Speaker 2: writing it. And I love music like that and it

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Speaker 2: inspired me a lot to make my music like that.

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Speaker 2: I always want my music to have, you know, uh,

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Speaker 2: a smell, a taste, sound, It will take you somewhere

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Speaker 2: in your life. It will take you to a certain place.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, So I have one a little fun question

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Speaker 1: for you so we can like wrap this up. So

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Speaker 1: I was wondering, if you have a hot what's your

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Speaker 1: hottest take that you'll take to the grave. For instance,

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Speaker 1: mine is like, I think that people who sleep with

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Speaker 1: their socks on are absolutely insane.

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Speaker 2: They are insane. Okay, thank you very much, agree with that.

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Speaker 2: I think what's my hot take? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I need to be you gotta have one. You gotta

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Speaker 1: have one.

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Speaker 2: I guess, like, I guess my hot take is like

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Speaker 2: I think that you don't need to drink milk past

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Speaker 2: like twelve or thirteen years old. And I guess that

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Speaker 2: might be.

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Speaker 1: My you know what I did.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, unless it's in your coffee or your cereal, but

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Speaker 2: if you're downing an entire giant glass of milk, sure,

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Speaker 2: I don't know how to feel.

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Speaker 1: That's just me.

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Speaker 2: That's just me. You drink milk of power to you.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying that is so valid. Okay, So that

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Speaker 1: was so one of the five because I f am,

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Speaker 1: thanks for hanging out, So thank you.

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Speaker 2: So much for having appreciate it. I really appreciate you

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Speaker 2: coming in