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Kylie Morgan shares the story behind her new single, "Like My Own," and gives an update on new music.
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It's Gail here with Kylie Morgan. So
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good to see you.
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Good to see you, too. Thanks for having
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me. I'm excited.
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Of course, we have a lot to talk about.
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Um, like my own. Hello.
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What a great song. So, give me I've read
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the story behind it, but give me your
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version of the story behind that song.
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Yes. So, um, this is one of the most
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special songs that I've ever put out for
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a lot of reasons. Um, but it's from a
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perspective and a new life that I am now
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living that is like a completely
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different world for me. Um, I I pretty
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much um set a firework to my life a
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couple years ago and just saw that like,
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you know, the things around me weren't
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fulfilling me and I felt like I was
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consistently giving in all these areas
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of my personal life and my professional
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life and I wasn't receiving that back.
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Um, and so I had, you know, I went
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through a really bad, really bad breakup
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and kind of gave up on love and was
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like, you know what? If that's what it
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is, I don't want anything to do with it.
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And then I ended up rekindling with a
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old friend and fell in love super fast.
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And he has a beautiful little baby girl
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that I have fallen in love with just as
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fast. And now I get to see her grow
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every day and see her just like shine.
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And I get so fulfilled by that. And then
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I just went in and wanted to write a
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song from the perspective that I feel
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like you hear a lot of stepdad songs, at
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least I have, but I've never heard a
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perspective when it came to like a bonus
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mom or a stepmom um singing to the child
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that you know she gets to see grow and
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and get fulfilled by. So I'm I'm really
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excited for this song. I just posted
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like a little snippet of it on socials
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when I the day I wrote it and I played
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it um for my boyfriend and then
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immediately overnight went viral and
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just has seen such an amazing response
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by so many people relating to the song.
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What did he say about it?
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Well, he cried, but he said that he has
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something in his eye that happened.
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He um actually absolutely loved it. Um,
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and it was it was one of those things
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too where it's like it's such a
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perspective that's so delicate and such
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a line to walk and it was really
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important to me to be able to um not
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only honor you know Ava and which is um
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my bonus daughter's name and uh my
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boyfriend but also Ava's real mom
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because you know I wouldn't even be here
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with standing with her without her. And
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so um I wanted to write it with another
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fellow mom and artist. So, I brought in
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uh Casey Tindle, which is a friend of
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mine that I've known for years, and I
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was like, "You know what? You're a mom.
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I need from your perspective as well."
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That way, like, you know, you get both
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of those um both of those views in the
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most like poetic and honorable way.
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And what did the biom think of the song?
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I kind of just like lets it live out
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there. And you know, I think that
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there's a lot of things when it comes
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down to it of just like our lives are so
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public and so we just try to, you know,
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stay out of each other's like anything
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when it comes to everything is about Ava
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and so that's like the priority and so
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we always just get back to her.
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I love that. Now, it's true. I think
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that you weren't even sure that you
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wanted kids, right?
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Yeah. I was like no kids. Um I never
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wanted to get married, never wanted to
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have kids. My career was my baby. Um it
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was this full thing. And then um you
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know I realized actually one of my best
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friends, my guitarist told me this one
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night after a show and he was talking
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about you know kids in the future for
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him and his wife and I gave him the
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whole like eye roll like oh then you're
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never going to want to come out on the
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road and you're never going to want to
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do this just you know giving him a hard
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time and he was like you know Kylie have
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you ever thought about the reason you
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don't want kids is because you're not
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with the person you want kids with and I
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was like
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like mind blown mic drop moment and Um
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it's just it's wild to see the
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difference of me as a human being um
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from the past relationship to this one.
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I walked in, you know, to this
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relationship and I'm like, "Oh, sure.
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You have a you have a little girl. Let's
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let's switch it together. Why not?" Like
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just totally different perspective. Were
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you surprised? So, one of the things
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when I started my website, I don't like
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talking about people's personal lives,
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so I'm asking this really delicately,
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but your split was kind of more public
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than probably you expected.
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Oh, yes. Uh it was way more public than
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I expected. Um I have done my absolute
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best to um heal on my own and separately
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after a lot of years of therapy and a
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lot of things that I had to overcome um
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with that relationship. And then it just
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felt like a continuous um when I felt
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like I was, you know, taken two steps
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forward in the healing process, I would
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be knocked four steps back because of
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the continuous one-sided public view
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that um I would not give. that he would.
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So, I've just continued to keep my eyes
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forward and, you know, remember that
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like I am who I am because of the things
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that I've gone through and that is just
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one of those things that have gotten to
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me gotten me where I am now.
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I love that. Give me your path from the
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if he would wanted to, he would. I
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remember you played that at the Ryman, I
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think. Maybe was it? Yeah, I remember it
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for like a showcase or something. I love
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that song. I still love that song. give
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me your path from there to this song.
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You know, it's it's so wild because
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every time I'm in a meet and greet, I
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feel like um there's so many fans that
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call me they're like country music big
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sister and so that's kind of where that
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song in perspective came from. I just
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wanted to write a song that I with
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advice that I needed to hear, you know,
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even still to this day. You know, I
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think it's one of those songs that never
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expire when it comes to the lessons that
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I've learned and want to continue to be
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an example of. And so seeing the like
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seeing the girls in the front row
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screaming every single word, not
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singing, screaming very very
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aggressively and passionately in the
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most beautiful way. You can see the
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development of like my fans have been
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growing with me if that makes sense. So
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you get to see every phase of my life
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through my music. Um I write about what
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I know. I write about what I'm going
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through at that moment. And it's been
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really cool to see fans see all these
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different chapters of my life from from
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heartbreak to healing to heartbreak to
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healing and then right back around and
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just seeing the phases that brought that
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music to the world.
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And you were also at one point a signed
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artist and you're now an independent
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artist. Talk about that.
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Yeah, this is um this has been a very
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wild couple years. I will say that in a
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million different ways. Um, but I
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realized that, you know, especially with
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how how music is changing so quickly,
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um, when it comes to the one-on-one, um,
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the one-on-one thing that we can have
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with our fans now, just through social
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media alone and being able to, you know,
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walk into a writer room and usually when
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I was assigned to a major deal, there's
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a lot of hoops to jump through to
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release a song. So, you know, you'd walk
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in, you'd write something you love, and
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you're like, "Ah, well, maybe it'll come
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out in four years. I don't know." And so
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I just I realized that the fans were
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choosing the songs for me. And it was a
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one-on-one uh relationship that I got to
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form with these people that I had never
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met that I'll met at that I'll meet at
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shows in the future. And I just realized
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that I wanted them to be involved in it.
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And so I I took a big giant leap of
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faith and I left the biggest label in
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the world. Um I'm just so thankful that
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we left on good terms. They let me out
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of my deal, which they absolutely did
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not have to do. So, it was the most like
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consensual thing where I just called him
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and I was like, "Listen, I'm not happy.
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I feel frustrated." And the the part of
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music that I fell in love with, I'm
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losing and I don't want to lose that.
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And so, it's been a very uh big learning
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curve as far as like I'm like, "Wait,
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how do you do this again? What do you
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who do you talk to about this and how do
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you do this?" But it's been like I'm so
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glad no matter where this next year ends
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up and what company if I decide to land
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on one. Um I've learned so much that I
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feel like I needed to go through that to
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be able to walk in confidently and be
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like, "Okay, you know what? I can do
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this by myself and now I get to like
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choose who I want to build this with."
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And what are we doing about more music
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in 2026?
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We are releasing a project. um I haven't
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announced officially, but um the project
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I'm so proud of and um it's coming with
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a little extra surprise that I'm
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announcing next week. Um it's it's going
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to be a lot of announcements next week.
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So, there's going to be a lot of music
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coming and um quite a few experiences
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for fans to be able to see that music
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live.
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Well, you sound like you're just
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crushing this year so far. So,
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thank you. I appreciate that.
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Last year was not my crush year. This
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year is my crush year.
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But look at you holding your head high.
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Hey, you learn a lot and you go through
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a lot, but there's two options. You can
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either, you know, use it to get you down
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or you can use it to overcome and
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realize that you're once you're finally
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at the top of that valley, you're like,
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"Okay, I did it." You know, I'm I'm here
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because of that. So, I'm just thankful
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to finally be out of that valley. That
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felt like it lasted for way longer than
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it should have. So,
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well, you're doing great.
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Thank you. I appreciate that.
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Best of luck to you. And the song is
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fantastic.
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A I appreciate that. Thank you. And it's
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so cool to like, you know, be able to do
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this and talk to different outlets about
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um this perspective because I feel like
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again, like I said, it was just it was
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one of those things where I I hadn't
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heard a song about it. And to be able to
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bond with so many people and have people
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like you help spread the word of the
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song and be able to have like that form
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of bond with strangers is really cool.
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So, I appreciate you.
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No worries. And it's gonna it's going to
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do great. I know it will.
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