シャドーイング練習: John Legend reflects on his early career, songwriting process, Ordinary People & new album collab - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ

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It's been 20 years since your debut.
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You could retire now and be fine.
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What in the world keeps you inspired?
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I got to pay this mortgage.
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No. I also feel like, this is just me reflecting, it would be different if that's all you did.
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Some people were the piano ballad guy in all the songs, but it was also unique in your catalog of Get Lifted.
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Even on the album, it was the only straight up piano ballad.
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We also did the Family Song, which was piano, but it was a fully arranged vocal thing.
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But if you listen to the full catalog, there's so much dynamics on the album.
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If you come to my shows, there's quite a range of energies and styles, but what I became most known for is the piano ballad.
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Right.
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But if you dig deeper, there's a wide breadth.
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Oh yeah.
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There's so much more.
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I think that's the kind of stereotype.
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If you don't know my catalog, oh, he's the piano ballad guy.
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But I've always known that my career has been much more than that.
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But I think for the casual listener that isn't deeply aware of my catalog, they might think that's all there is.
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All right.
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This man has 10 million records sold, even though we don't sell records anymore.
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Still matters.
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He's got 13 Grammy Awards, not nominations.
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The first black man to win an EGOT, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony.
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He was the first one signed to good music.
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He's literally a legend with the man John Legend.
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Thank you.
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Good to be here.
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Amazing.
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First off, this space is one of a kind.
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This is a beautiful, amazing room.
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I mean, it feels inspiring.
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This is our piano room, our piano bar.
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I write in this room.
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We entertain our friends when they come over.
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We have a few drinks in this room.
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This is where a lot of the Grammys are stored.
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Displayed, I guess, is a better word.
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And yeah, this room means a lot to us.
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Yeah, and the beautiful library.
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We've got the library.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, this is incredible.
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So I think there's some interesting trivia
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that a lot of people still don't know after all this time that I find fascinating.
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You played piano on Everything Is Everything by Miss Lauren Hill.
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Yeah, that was my first time appearing on any major recording.
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And what a nice one to be a part of.
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That's right.
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A classic.
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You were 19 at the time?
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Yeah, I was 19 at the time.
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August 1998 is when the album came out.
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And yeah, I was a student at the University of Pennsylvania at the time.
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And I was introduced to Lauren by a friend of mine who sang in my church choir,
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but grew up with Miss Hill and thought it'd be cool to introduce us.
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And so she introduced us as Miss Hill was working on her debut album.
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And so I got a chance to play and sing for her.
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And she liked what she heard and asked me to play piano on the record they were working on at the time, which was Everything is Everything.
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Rob Markman- Wow.
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Classic moment.
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From then on, a little bit later, you're a part of so many of these songs.
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Background vocals on You Don't Know My Name by Alicia Keys.
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Yeah.
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Encore, Jay-Z, Worst Come the Worst.
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Was that- Oh, you mean the Dilated People song?
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It's called This Way.
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Rob Markman- This Way, that's the one.
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This Way.
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We did Selfish with Slow Village.
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Rob Markman- Selfish with Slow Village.
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So there's all these iconic classic tracks that you're doing before you even release a classic.
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Yeah, well I was signed to Kanye West's production company, Good Music, as you mentioned,
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and he would take me in on a lot of the sessions where he was producing other artists
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and he would just ask me to contribute whatever I could.
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So I would sing sometimes, play keys sometimes, both sometimes, and
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so it ended up being a great opportunity for me to be a part of a bunch of great records being made.
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Right.
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Yeah, that's a healthy repertoire.
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So it's been 20 years since your debut.
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What ...
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You could retire now and be fine.
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What in the world keeps you inspired?
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I gotta pay this mortgage.
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No, I love making music still.
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I love the creative process.
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I'm constantly motivated to continue to be creative,
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innovative, productive as an artist.
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And yeah, I can't imagine not doing it.
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Can't imagine not wanting to write music.
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I can't imagine not wanting to play live for my fans.
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So I don't see this stopping anytime soon.
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How's the...in your...you have this piano room and you, you know, obviously you can make an album whenever you want, you can make songs whenever you want.
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Do you have a hard time playing just for you?
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Do you imagine everything is eventually like, you've got to make a song?
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Or are there moments where you're just sort of meditative, musical?
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Occasionally I'll just play as a moment to relax.
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But most of the time I sit and play, it's because I'm thinking about the next song.
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I'm very creative.
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I love to write songs.
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And whenever I sit down, there's a good chance I'm either writing something new
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or learning how to play something that I'm going to perform for my show
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or practice something I'm going to perform for my show.
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Yep, yep, yep, yep.
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How often do you practice? Is that?
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I don't really practice much.
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It's more about learning a song.
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So I'm not practicing scales and things of that nature, which it's not that you shouldn't do that.
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There's a lot of pianists who continuously practice.
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I do that kind of work for my voice, but I don't do as much of that for my piano playing.
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I think of my piano playing more as accompaniment for my singing and as the vehicle for my songwriting.
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So it's less a technical thing where you feel like you have to...
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I'm less a keyboardist or pianist first than a singer and songwriter who plays the keys for myself.
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That makes sense.
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So you've written a song, you bring it to a producer.
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What's the collaboration process like for you and a producer?
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What's your involvement?
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Well, I'm very involved in deciding which producers I want to work with, first of all, and then working with them to shape the arrangement.
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Some songs have been created in the studio with producers.
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So a lot of your producers that use your sounds will probably say, I make beats and then songwriters come in,
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top line writers come in and are inspired by the beats and they create songs.
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So a lot of times in our industry, that's how it happens.
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And it happens like that for me a lot too.
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But I also start songs on the piano
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and then bring them to a producer for them to arrange and flesh out the full production.
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So it can go either way.
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It can start with a producer giving me ideas that I write a top line for, or I can write the song, the chords on piano, the lyric on piano,
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all that, and then give it to a producer to arrange and produce.
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So my last album, my favorite dream was a children's album.
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I wrote everything here at my house, inspired by my kids and my family.
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And then I brought every song as a piano vocal version to the producer of the album, who was Sufjan Stevens.
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And then he built these beautiful, gorgeous, whimsical arrangements around it.
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So my main input in the production process started with just deciding
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that I wanted to work with Sufjan
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because I was a big fan of his work and I thought his style would be perfect for that album.
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And then just giving him feedback as he was bringing in different instrumentalists
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and playing around with the tracks and figuring out what the full sound of the album would be.
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Rob Markman- This is one of the most fascinating things is discovering that Sufjan, you tapped Sufjan to produce an album,
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which I mean, that's a core indie hero for a lot of us.
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Rob Markman- I've been a fan of his for like 20 years.
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I remember I was a part of the Mercury Prize voting one year.
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And his album was included in the albums we were supposed to listen to.
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He was a finalist.
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And I fell in love with his work back then.
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I think this was around 05 or 06.
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And I just became a fan of his from then on and started listening to him.
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And when I was writing the children's songs, I was like, you know, it would be cool to produce this.
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It would be Sufjan Stevens.
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So I didn't know him personally.
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I just loved his music.
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And my manager knew his manager and put us together on the phone.
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And I was like, listen, I know this is random and wild, but would you ever want to do my children's album?
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And he was like, oh, you know, send me the songs and let me think about it.
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So I sent him a few demos and he was into it.
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He wanted to do it.
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And then we created this beautiful album together.
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I mean, yeah, that's such a fascinating.
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I have to put you on the spot.
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this is a this is a spicy question yeah favorite Sufjan album
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favorite favorite Sufjan album I fell in love with his music
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through come on field of Illinois yeah what's the one named after his parents though I really love
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that out of her in yes well Karen Lowell I think
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that was named retro his parents I really love that album there's a few others I've listened I've been into a lot.
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Seven stars.
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Yes, that one's really good too.
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I think Illinois is like closest to my heart because that's when I fell in love with first.
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And then I really do love Carrie and Lowell a lot.
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Yeah.
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All right.
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So we are at the 20th anniversary.
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This is the 20th anniversary release of Get Lifted.
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Almost up to 21 now.
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Oh, yeah.
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Legally drinking.
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Yeah.
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And there's so many amazing moments on this album, but obviously the one that,
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you know, put things into the stratosphere was Ordinary People.
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Yeah.
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And, you know, you had to fight for this to be a single, right?
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This...
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No, not exactly.
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No?
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First of all, I had to take the song back from Will I Am.
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That was, you know, that was the hardest part of things because, you know, I'd written the idea for the Black Eyed Peas.
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Not that he was fighting me for it, but I had to wrest it away from the Black Eyed Peas
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because it was written to this hip hop beat and it was going to be a hook for the Black Eyed Peas.
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But the more I thought about it, I was like, you know what, I'm going to keep this for myself.
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So I kept it for myself.
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So that was one hurdle.
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Then I wrote the song and everybody loved it.
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Everybody loved it.
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And I recorded a demo
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and I was going to let Will.i.am produce the demo as kind of like the exchange for me taking the song back.
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I was like, I'll let you produce it.
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But I sent him the piano vocal version and he loved the piano vocal version.
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Everyone else loved the piano vocal version.
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And it was like no one thought we could top it by adding a beat.
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So we tried, but everyone was still in love with the original version and we ended up releasing the demo version.
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And then my single was Used to Love You, the first single.
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And at the time there were these sampler CDs
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that we would give out to radio and to fans at little shows that I was doing.
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And on the sampler, it was supposed to be Used to Love You as a full version,
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then 30 seconds of each of the other four songs.
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But my A&R, Kwon Prather,
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K-P, Legendary A&R, decided we should put a full version of Ordinary People on the sampler on a whim, like on his own.
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He kind of went rogue and decided we should put the full version on there.
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So you didn't even know this was happening at the time?
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I didn't know it was happening at the time.
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And I was not really pleased about it because we were focused on You Still Love You.
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And it wasn't time for Ordinary People in my mind yet.
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But the full version got out
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and a radio station in Chicago started playing it before we were even promoting it as a single.
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And it blew up in Chicago first and then it went nationwide and became the biggest hit from Get Lifted.
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Okay, so there wasn't even a plan where it was like, we got to do this.
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Because what's the sound of radio at the time?
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Well, I think we eventually wanted to make Ordinary People a single, but it wasn't clear that it was going to be the second single.
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And it also wasn't the plan to kind of take over the first single that we were already promoting, but it ended up taking over based on it getting on
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that sampler and then radio stations taking their own initiative to play it.
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And it was very different from what was on the radio at the time.
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And this is early to mid 2000s and a lot of crunk and B and confessions had just been huge.
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So on the R&B side, it wasn't anything other than Alicia that was really similar to me.
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And then for it to be just me and my voice and the piano, it pretty much stood alone on radio.
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And I think that is partly why it made such a big impact
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because it really sounded singular in that moment and it made people stop and listen.
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Yeah.
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And I mean, it sounds like a situation where like the people spoke.
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You played it and the people reacted.
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The people spoke, they reacted.
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They were, it was arresting.
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It grabbed you when you first heard it.
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It sounded so different.
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And a lot of people will tell me they remember where they were when they first heard it.
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They pulled over.
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Something happened, it was like, whoa, what is this?
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And I think that kind of moment,
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that kind of urgency, that kind of opportunity to just stand out
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and be one of one in that moment really made a big difference in my career.
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I also feel like, this is just me reflecting, it would be different if that's all you did.
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Some people were the piano ballad guy in all the songs, but it was also unique in your catalog of Get Lifted.
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Yeah.
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And even on the album, it was the only straight up piano ballad.
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We also did the Family Song, which was piano, but it was a fully arranged vocal thing.
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So this was kind of a standalone song on the album, but it became a signature for me.
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So pretty much any John Legend album you get,
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there'll be at least one solo piano ballad on there that kind of harkens back to that original signature.
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But if you listen to the full catalog, there's so much dynamics on the album.
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If you come to my shows, there's quite a range of energies and styles, but what I became most known for is the piano ballad.
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Rob Markman- Right.
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But if you dig deeper, there's a wide breadth.
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There's so much more.
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And I think that's the kind of stereotype if you don't know my catalog, oh, he's the piano ballad guy.
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But I've always known that my career has been much more than that.
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But I think for the casual listener that isn't deeply aware of my catalog, they might think that's all there is.
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Right.
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So you mentioned the family song, it's the, it don't have to change, that one.
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And it's your whole family song, right?
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Yeah.
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Did you write that with them in mind?
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I wrote it with them in mind.
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I thought about the times we would gather together to sing.
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A lot of times on my mother's side it was at church, but on my father's side, which was featured on this album,
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a lot of it was not only at church, but at holiday celebrations.
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We'd often go to my granny Steven's house
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and we would celebrate Christmas there and we would do sing-alongs at the end of the day.
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We'd play football and watch basketball and have dinner, all those things.
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But at the end of the day, the most important thing was us gathering around the piano to sing.
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Were you the one playing?
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Sometimes.
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And my grandmother would play sometimes and my cousin would play sometimes.
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But that was a huge part of our family tradition
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and I thought it'd be cool to write a song that we could do together.
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Wow.
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Wow.
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So now flipping that, so you're a family man now.
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Married with kids.
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You've written one of the most iconic love odes to your wife with all of me.
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But at the time, there's a very strong, at least hard-rated, saint and sinner theme with Get Lifted.
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Sure.
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Right?
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Just because I cheated on you doesn't mean I don't love you.
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And this sort of pain, sin, and redemption.
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Are these stories, are these characters, is this inspiration from your life?
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Yeah.
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A lot of it was inspired by my own life.
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And even when I write a song that may not be directly autobiographical, it at least reflects my state of mind at the time
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and where I am in my life and my point of view at the time.
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So yeah, I was a young bachelor at the time and I was writing about it.
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The experience, yeah.
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Yeah.
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These songs span ...
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When were you writing these songs?
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These songs was ...
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The oldest song on Get Lifted was 2001, Stay With You.
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So I'd already graduated from college and I was living in New York and I was writing in New York, but also going back and forth to Philly,
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writing with Dave Tozer, who's one of my main co-writers and producers on that album.
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And so either in New York or Philly, I was writing these songs.
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And I was living in New York, working a day job as a management consultant almost that entire time,
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and gigging on the weekends and at night, and writing songs on the weekends in at night and then holding down a day job during the week.
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And at some point it was time to say goodbye to the day job.
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Yeah, things started to progress.
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So I started working with Kanye in 2002 and we were working on my demo which eventually became Get Lifted.
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He was working on his demo which eventually became The College Dropout
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and he eventually got signed as a rapper
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and he was already producing a lot of other artists like Jay-Z
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and Beanie Segal and all the Rockefeller guys and eventually the Alishas and the Dilated Peoples and Slum Villages.
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And he was bringing me in on all these sessions and his mixtapes were starting to blow up.
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And we were getting close to the release of College Dropout
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and I felt like it was a good time for me to stop working my day job.
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And I was able to go on the road with him
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and make enough money to win sessions and going on the road to quit my day job.
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All right, that's a tough transition.
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Yeah, I mean, it was the transition I wanted.
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I still wasn't making the kind of money I needed to really thrive in New York City.
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But I did what I had to do and eventually all those different looks,
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all those different moments where people were hearing my voice and starting to see my name in different places,
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started to build momentum and then Kanye's album came out in February 2004 and then I got signed in May of 2004.
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So pretty quickly after the success of College Dropout, everybody was like, oh, we got to sign whoever's next out of good music.
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And I was next.
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And a lot of the people that had turned me down before, thought my demo wasn't ready before, all of a sudden- Changed their tune.
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Changed their tune.
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We had multiple labels that wanted to sign me at that point, and I decided to go with Columbia.
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And most of Get Lifted was already written up until that point.
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So most of it was written while I was an unsigned artist, while I was getting turned down by everyone.
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Most of it was part of my demo.
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But notably, Ordinary People was written after I was signed.
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Ah, okay.
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So that's when they came after.
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Interesting.
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So it's a good thing it did.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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And so for this, the re-release here, you've updated some tracks.
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You've got some killer features.
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And Ordinary People has this warm Afrobeats production and you've got Tim's on it.
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And it sounds like you re-recorded vocals.
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Yeah, we re-recorded vocals.
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So the re-release of the album has the original version first and then there's a bonus disc basically with some remixes.
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And the bonus disc features some of my favorite artists right now, like Killer Mike and Lil Wayne and Thames and Simi.
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We got production by my musical director, Eugene Man Man Roberts, who did that Ordinary People remix.
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We've also got 9th Wonder and a couple of other producers on the album.
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So we've got some really great new kind of reinvigorated, refreshed remixes of the songs, and then some really great guests.
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And my musical director, Man Man, came up with the beat for Ordinary People's remix.
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And it's in some ways reminiscent of a cover version that Tims had done on her own.
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So she was a fan of the song and had done a cover version years ago.
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And we found it and we were like, why don't we do it as a duet version?
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So we kind of remixed her vocals, brought mine in with it, and created a duet version.
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Oh, okay.
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That's special.
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That's amazing.
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Did you re-record vocals for other tracks, for some of the other bonus?
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Most of the other tracks we left the vocals the same
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and just kind of did a traditional remix where you take the old vocal and just put a new musical bed underneath.
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But this one's a special one.
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But this one was different because we wanted it to match up with what Thames had already done.
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And you mentioned all these artists, you've got an amazing verse from Kill Em Mike and Lil Wayne and Black Thought.
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And how do you, I'm sure a lot of artists would love to be a part of this project.
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How do you land on it?
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You're just reaching out to your favorite people and- Yeah, just brainstorming and thinking about what does this feel like.
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Like for Let's Get Lifted Again, I wanted Southern rappers and I particularly wanted someone from New Orleans
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because there was a really dope New Orleans bounce version of Let's Get Lifted Again
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that came out close to when the album came out originally.
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And so I thought it'd be dope to include a New Orleans rapper for that.
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So of course, why not Lil Wayne?
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And then Killer Mike, obviously from Atlanta.
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And so I just wanted it to have that Southern feel, because the beat really had that feel.
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And then with 9th Wonder and Black Thought,
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9th Wonder came up with this great idea to use the imaginary playmates for the remix for Used to Love You.
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And he had been working with Black Thought on a project already, and so it just made perfect sense for Black Thought to be a part of it.
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And Black Thought
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and I go way back to my early days in Philly where I'd go to the open mic nights
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that The Roots hosted.
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And then The Roots and I made an album together called Wake Up.
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And those guys are my friends.
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We toured together.
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We're very close and just have a great musical connection over the years.
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So it was a no brainer to ask Black Thought to be a part of it.
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And he's truly one of the greats of all time in my mind.
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And so it was an honor to have him as a part of this too.
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And then Tim's and Simi, both of those songs kind of had an Afrobeat kind of feel.
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And so we were trying to find the right Nigerian artists to include and we thought both of them would be wonderful.
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Amazing.
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Amazing.
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The Philly crew is strong.
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They've been going- The Philly crew is strong.
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A lot of my band is from Philly.
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My producer and musical director, Man Man, is from Philly.
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most of the instrumentalists from the band are from Philly as well.
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But you grew up in, you grew up in Springfield, right?
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You went to college in Philly?
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Yeah.
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So I grew up in Springfield, Ohio.
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I was there until I was 16, graduated high school and went to college in Philadelphia, and then lived in Boston for one year.
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And then most of my adult life until we started having kids, I lived in New York.
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Gotcha.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Now, fast forward to recent times, still packed schedule, still in demand.
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And there's been some talk of you being in Paris with Pharrell recording stuff.
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Is that where the Clips verse, this Clips chorus for the song on the Clips?
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Well, everything I've been doing with Pharrell started with the Clips record.
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So they reached out through a mutual contact
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and they had written this song honoring their parents who had both passed around the same time.
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Birds don't sing.
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Yeah.
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And they had written this song for them and they wanted me to sing it.
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And the demo had Pharrell singing it and they asked me to be a part of it.
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And I recorded it and they were just thrilled with what I had done with the record.
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And Pharrell was thrilled with it and he got inspired, honestly.
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So basically him wanting to do an album with me started
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with how excited he was with what I'd done with the Clips track.
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And he was like, man, I'm just so inspired by your voice.
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I really feel like we could create something amazing together.
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So we embarked on a journey to create this new album together starting in January of 2025.
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And I had recorded the Clips chorus back in 2024.
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But I went to Paris and we started working on this new album.
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And we've been working on it off and on for the better part of this year.
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And in 2026, we'll have an album.
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Officially, there is Pharrell, John Legend collaboration.
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Well, it's exciting to work with someone new.
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I'd worked with Pharrell very briefly before we did a couple songs together years ago.
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We hadn't ever really done a whole project together or really spent a lot of time together.
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And it just felt like exciting and fresh and new to do something with him at this time in our careers.
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And I can't wait for people to hear it.
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Is there anyone on your list, artist or producer, that you are still waiting for that moment to work together?
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I don't really maintain a list like that.
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I'm just more like, let's just be creative and be in the moment and let's be open.
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And so there are newer artists that I'm really enjoying right now
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and there are artists that have been around for a long time that I really enjoy, some of whom I haven't worked with yet even though the list is long of people that I have worked with.
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But I just stay open.
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Yeah.
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Are there any new artists that you can't stop listening to recently?
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I've been listening to a lot lately.
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The Clips album is one.
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Not new artists at all.
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Yeah, but hell of a comeback.
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Maybe my favorite album this year is the Clips album.
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But there's a lot of great young R&B artists.
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I really love Moses Sumney's album that came out last year, the EP.
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Just absolutely love it.
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I love Leon Bridges.
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I love Daniel Caesar.
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I love her.
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I love, there's quite a few young R&B artists.
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I love Ari Lennox.
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We just did a really cool collab at my DC show.
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Quite a few young R&B artists that I really enjoy.
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And they keep me inspired, you know?
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Yeah.
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So I also think something very important with your legacy beyond the music is The activism, you just said it's fair,
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that seems to be central to your character and how people know you.
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And from a young age, this is there from the beginning.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I always was inspired by artists who gave back, but also spoke up, used their platform to speak out for what was right, for what was just.
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So I looked up to people like Harry Villafonte and Nina Simone and Paul Robeson and Aretha Franklin and Mahalia Jackson,
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all these artists that helped provide the soundtrack to the civil rights movement,
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but also behind the scenes were contributing money and influence and resources whenever they could.
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And I always felt like that's part of what it means to be an artist and to be
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present and alive in the moment that you're living in, reflect the times that you're living in,
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and your voice to say something.
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And so I've always looked at my role as an artist as including that.
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And so I definitely implement that in my life.
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Does this time feel more pressing for you?
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Oh, this time is scary.
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It's scary for the entire country, but particularly people of color,
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people who are marginalized
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and the target of kidnappings and immigration enforcement
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and even historians and medical researchers are being targeted and universities are being targeted and the free press is being targeted.
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And so we have to be vigilant and we have to fight back.
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We have to join together to fight back.
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I think there's power and strength in numbers.
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And it's a difficult time, but the only way we'll get through it is together.
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If we, the people, stand up together.
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I think that's a great place to wrap.
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Okay.
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Incredible.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you.
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Good, sir.
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My pleasure.

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「John Legend reflects on his early career, songwriting process, Ordinary People & new album collab」を使って、シャドーイングで英語を練習しましょう。

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シャドーイング(Shadowing)は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的:ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影(shadow)」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。