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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

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Speaker 2: Jason raz is back with a whole new album of material,

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Speaker 2: but the singer songwriter switching it up with his ten

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Speaker 2: song collection by making his very first pop album, and

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Speaker 2: the inspiration came from a fairly unlikely place, his mom,

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Speaker 2: who advised him to finally embrace pop before it was

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Speaker 2: too late. Jason, who turned forty six on the daily

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Speaker 2: album was released, tells Billboard his age did inform how

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Speaker 2: he approached the genre, saying, historically, had I been doing

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Speaker 2: this at a younger age, I would have tried to

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Speaker 2: create these dance floor bangers, demanding you to hit the

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Speaker 2: dance floor. But as you get older, those fun moments

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Speaker 2: are still precious, but it's not what all of life

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Speaker 2: is about. Sometimes life's about cheering yourself on to get

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Speaker 2: through the day. Jason's album Mystical, Magical, Rhythmical, Radical Rime

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Speaker 2: is out now.

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Speaker 1: That's Direct from Hollywood