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I'm going to go to the next episode of the Cheers.

Oh, these are the only shots I get to use my shot glasses for.

Oh yeah, you wanted that?

Not really.

It wasn't a thing where people were like, with these and these.

When I'm on Broadway Market, you know the deal.

There's one place I have to go, and that is Clemson's for a coffee.

Also, yeah, my voice is completely gone.

I have all pointiest voice.

I have no idea how visible I am.

I should put my sunglasses on.

It's so funny.

I went for a cold brew.

And I always add like a splash of milk.

It's good.

What a nice start to a Tuesday.

I actually can't put this on there.

There's no room where you are.

Anyway, I need to go home and actually work.

I've got a little bit of work to do in terms of emails talking about work, like paid work.

In terms of like partnerships, you have to pitch to the brand you're working with

and then they pitch back and like that kind of pre-production stuff has to get done.

And then I'm also going to do some of the teaser edits for the song that comes out on Monday.

Monday.

It's the first song in a while, like in probably six months.

It's a new era.

I'm so excited.

I feel like I have a really fun vision for the next few songs.

But yeah, I've got to like do some like teaser posts, I think.

So I'll edit those up.

It's not officially work.

Typically, I do all the music stuff on my weekends and evenings, but I'm allowing myself a bit more time at the moment, like I booked a shoot and stuff like that.

So yeah, that's my update.

By By the end of the week there will be a song out. So crazy!

I'm on route to have dinner with my friends.

One of my home friends is back from Texas.

She's been there for like a year.

My first time seeing us, it's Christmas.

oh Yeah,

thank you Look who I met.

We haven't seen each other in what, like, maybe years?

We had a really nice chat about ourselves today.

And I feel like every now and again we send each other in a good voice.

Hey, who's a good girl?

I feel like I probably met you 12 years ago.

Oh my gosh, yes, I remember.

I think I came up to you, I think I'm starstruck.

Yeah, I think we were on our own and we were like, let's hang out together because we're both on our own.

Oh my god, I do remember this in that old office.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The old YouTube office.

I remember.

It's so nice to see you.

Oh my God, how can you see you?

Ah, it's so nice.

These events are so good.

I have sweated off any makeup I once had on my face.

I ran from that event to the station.

And now I'm on my way to see my mom and dad.

I'm taking my dad to the pub.

I'm trying to take him out more

because I feel like it can be hard just where he's located and all of that.

Just makes it a little more complicated.

But now we have some of our ducks in a row.

Yeah, trying to improve his quality of life.

I thought I'd try and write something while I'm on the train.

Sometimes I manage to work, sometimes I just get sick.

So yeah, that's what I'm going to do.

I have had a genuinely really lovely work day.

I have had two meetings.

I had one in person and one over Zoom.

What's Google's one?

Google me.

First meeting was in Battersea Power Station.

You'd be shocked at how many brands are based in Battersea Power Station.

And the second one was with my manager, Lucy.

I've just moved manager.

I'm still in the same company, but I work with someone else now.

She's such a gem.

I'm a big fan.

And yeah, then I just finished a piece I was working on for Substack about Dolly, which I managed to start on the train down to see my dad and mum.

Also, terrible news.

It has started raining in London.

Our heat waves are over.

Summer is done.

Actually so devastated.

I don't know how I'm going to survive the winter.

Every year that goes by that I live in England, which is my whole life, I become less and less tolerant of the weather.

I would have thought it would get easier.

It's almost like it's compounding.

And then I did some emailing for fashion week, which feels scary as I feel like such an imposter.

But I would really like to get some stuff booked in this year and I need to take it seriously.

So that's what I've been doing, utilising every contact I have.

So this evening I'm going to an event solo.

I'm going to a gig.

Kenny Beats and Denzel Curry are doing a show.

I have no idea what to expect.

It's at The Cause.

They had some tickets spare.

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I managed to wrangle one.

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I haven't been to The Cause since Kenny played there with Fred again in 2022.

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No, that's not true.

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That's actually not true.

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Do you know what?

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I think I went as a plus one to a Jack Daniels event.

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Maybe last summer.

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I'm actually just so used to being around booze.

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It really doesn't bother me at all and I'm very much of the opinion

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that like if you don't have a problem with booze like why would you stop drinking

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if you can have fun safely like absolutely go for it but sometimes

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when there's an event that's particularly boozy I do feel a

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bit like an interloper like there were obviously no sober options I think I was just drinking Diet Coke anyway

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that was the last time I was at the cause actually

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and I actually had such a good night

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that night I remember like being in the smoking area talking to all my friends friends

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that I hadn't met

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so yeah this will be lovely I just need to hurry up the arrival time

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or like the entry is at 7pm which is

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if you know the cause it's like a nightclub

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so that's a really strange like opening time for them

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so I really don't know when they'll be on

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if they'll have support I assume it functions like a regular gig

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so I took all my makeup off and started again

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because I don't know what's going on with my skin this year

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but it rockets between being completely clear and completely spotty and we're talking like

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zits it's like dirt spots or like sebum spots all through my t-zone

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and I really just don't know what's going on and the fact

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that it's not all the time as well sometimes I really

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get a handle on it there was a period at the

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beginning of summer where I had the best skin of my life

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when I'm using the current body mask every day it really

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really helps it definitely helps with oil control I clean my

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makeup brushes once a week now I'm really like careful with this stuff

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and I know what's set off the main spots this time around

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when we were away I put my cap on

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while I was in the sea and then it fell off in the sea

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and then I kept wearing it and I know that's why I had just

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so many spots across my forehead

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and I started the week with literally perfect skin I just should have been more thoughtful it was

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so frustrating but hey we can't do it all today I think

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because it's been rainy but it's still a bit warm it's just

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so humid I've been sweating one out powder is a must I think I said this

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but I'm going solo which does make me kind of nervous

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but like I'm quite an independent person

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and honestly I can just have a drink have a little scroll on my phone like people watch.

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I really don't mind too much but it does make me a little nervous beforehand.

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I'm also like a big chatter so

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if you ever see me alone in a queue do come and say hi because I will chat back.

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I think it's such a beautiful thing to meet new people.

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You really never know who you're going to meet.

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I remember once I was at a work event

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and I knew pretty much everyone at dinner

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but there was one lady who I was sitting next to who I didn't know.

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I didn't recognize.

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We had a lovely lovely conversation but during that conversation she didn't tell me anything about what she does.

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We kind of just talked about life and I just found her so so lovely.

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Then at the end of the chat I said oh is it all right if I follow you on Instagram?

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She said yeah of course, and handed over her phone and it was Gemma Stiles.

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And yeah, Gemma is just an absolute gem.

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Like, I'm so grateful that I got to sit next to her at

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that one dinner because she's genuinely just a really nice down-to-earth person.

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I meet people all the time who are just genuinely really lovely people.

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I got talking to my neighbours and now we're good friends and we have dinner at each other's houses.

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Another one is me and my friends used to go all the time to a restaurant called Sodo, which is a really, really good pizza in Bethnal Green.

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We just talked to the manager, Nathan.

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We went so often and we went to see him so much, we actually became mates.

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Those little relationships in life are so amazing.

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He doesn't work at Soda anymore, sadly.

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Oh, I need to quickly curl the fronts of my hair again, I think.

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Maybe I don't, maybe I just need to brush it.

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Maybe this will just have to do.

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We move, we move.

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Anyway, I'd better get going.

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Last night

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was so much fun.

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I arrived at the perfect time.

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There was enough time for me to get a drink, use the bathroom, and then the set started.

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I was definitely unk in that crowd.

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Most of the people there were young boys like some were definitely teens

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but yeah I was an outlier there were a few girls

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but yeah it was

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so good I had such a good time I love Zoo by Denzel that's my favorite of his albums

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so I reserve today for making a bit of music I

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have done six out of seven songs in my projects

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that I'm making they've been sent to be mixed four are

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mixed already one is coming out as you know in what three days two days

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and I have a few options for track seven

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but none of them seem to be either working like one of them I reworked

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and it still doesn't sound quite right I changed the drums

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on it it's just not there another one again is all right

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but I think

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if I brought it to someone else for another artist the capacity for it to be amazing is there

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so I don't want to put that on the project

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and then there's a third song that I wrote

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and is done it just needs the vocals recording

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but basically I send all of my songs to one of my best friends

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and she doesn't like it and if she doesn't like it I am not sure

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that it should make the tape because her judgment so far has been really in line with what other people think.

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She seems to be a really good benchmark so if she's not loving it maybe I should leave it.

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It kind of sounds like a scissor song

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and I sometimes feel like I don't want to sound too too close to anyone in particular.

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Not that I'm saying I could ever in a million years sound

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or sing like scissor but the beat itself is very sos

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and I just don't know if that's wholly me

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so what I'm gonna do now is I've set my music stuff up here I'm gonna rattle through

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and try and come up with three

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or four really quick ideas I'm gonna set like 20 minutes of just beats

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and then whichever one I like the most I'm gonna build out

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and just see if I can come up with something

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if I can't then I'll just figure out one of the other tracks and put it on the project,

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but it would be nice to have something that feels like it completes the project in the vein that it's currently sounding.

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So I've not even bothered bringing my microphone into this room because I am sore in the voice still.

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I'm hoping that on Sunday I'll be able to sing.

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And you might be wondering why I'm in my living room doing this.

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I was in the spare room, which is where my little studio setup is last week

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and I saw the largest spider I've seen in a

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while it's a harvest spider they come out at this time

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of year it's the first time I've seen a spider

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that big in this flat really we only have tiny ones

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which I can deal with I lost my marbles it ran

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and I freaked out and I know it's still in there somewhere

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so I'm just swerving that room right now there'll be a point in

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which my memory fades and I'll be able to go back in but while I know 99% that he's still in there, I don't think me and him should be sharing a room.

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I'm going to crack on with this and see if I can make any headway.

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Okay, full transparency.

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I did not end up making any good music.

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Nothing worked logic wasn't working it was all just rubbish

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but today's a fresh day

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and we are going to a festival we're going to our friends 30th

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but um it's at a little like local festival which is very sweet in cambridgeshire but we're going for lunch first

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wet galleys Oh, crispies!

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Yay!

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Oh, some more crisps!

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It's actually quite impressive about the electrics in this space and it's just raining on fire So far, though?

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Something very exciting to report.

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Plus One is out.

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I was feeling so, so nervous.

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Luckily, and thank goodness for past me, I scheduled my teaser posts for the song.

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I probably wouldn't have posted anything had I not done that.

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But yeah, once the song was out, I just felt all the nervousness leave my body.

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I'm actually feeling all right now.

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I'm going to make a second attempt at making a tune while it's bank holiday Monday.

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I can't remember if I mentioned, but Friday was just a massive fail.

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Nothing came out of it.

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I don't feel very moved to make music when I'm not in the first half of my cycle.

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But in a way that can sometimes work to my advantage

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because I tend to do things a bit more by the book, a bit less experimentally and I tend to kind of follow

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and like paint within the lines a bit more and I take the pressure off myself.

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I'm like just give it a go, see how you do.

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I try not to put too much weight on the streams at this point

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because it's just such early days for me in my artist project.

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The thing that is in my control is the promotion and luckily that's kind of my job so I can do that.

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Also the bed is unmade

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because I am brave enough now to be back in this room

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but I'm not brave enough to touch that bed which is where I saw the spider.

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He like scurried across the covers and just nope.

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But I am brave enough to be here so I am going to try and make some in.

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Let's see.

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Let's see what I can do.

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It's six o'clock and I have a loop.

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Needs a different bass line.

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But it's something nice.

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I think it's really pretty.

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I'm going to Elle's house.

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She is feeding us because Dylan is in town.

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Dylan is a creator who's Elle's friend who's in London for a while.

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And so she invited us around to hang out.

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Give him a warm welcome.

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So I'm always more than happy to do that, especially when I'm being fed.

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Apparently it's butter chicken tonight.

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Okay, I need to leave the house.

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Thank you.

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Deze spreekles op niveau B1 is gebaseerd op de video “you really can reinvent yourself at any time”. Deze video bevat 272 zinnen en 2840 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 16:41. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 170 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 82% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
spider zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈspaɪ̯dɚ/	spin, kobbe
scissor werkwoord	/ˈsɪzɚ/	knippen
booze zelfstandig naamwoord	/buz/	drank
luckily bijwoord	/ˈlʌk.ɪ.li/	gelukkig
sweat werkwoord	/swɛt/	zweten, transpireren
brush zelfstandig naamwoord	/bɹʌʃ/	borstel, (paint-) verfborstel
spare bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/spɛɚ/	extra
edit werkwoord	/ˈɛdɪt/	bewerken, wijzigen
chatter werkwoord	/ˈt͡ʃætɚ/	babbelen, kletsen
excite werkwoord	/ɪkˈsaɪt/	prikkelen, opwinden
experimentally bijwoord		experimenteel
frustrate werkwoord	/ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪt/	frustreren
galley zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɡæli/	galei
impostor zelfstandig naamwoord	/ɪmˈpɑstɚ/	bedrieger, bedriegster
interloper zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˌɪntəˈləʊ̯pə/	indringer

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
come up with werkwoord		bedenken, verzinnen
come out werkwoord	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	uitkomen
end up werkwoord		belanden, terechtkomen
figure out werkwoord		uitvogelen, er achter komen
hand over werkwoord		overhandigen
set off werkwoord		vertrekken

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Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

I actually can't put this on there.
There's no room where you are.
I'm on route to have dinner with my friends.
We haven't seen each other in what, like, maybe years?
Hey, who's a good girl?

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

Structuur	In de video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — iets dat eerder begon en nog bezig is	I've been doing · I've been sweating
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt	She's been · haven't seen · have sweated
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding	England, which is · Sodo, which is · room, which is
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet	be shocked · they've been sent · being fed

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 104 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, don't, I've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De klanken “sh” en “zh”: brush /bɹʌʃ/, benchmark /ˈbɛn(t)ʃmɑːk/, splash /splæʃ/, rubbish /ˈɹʌbɪʃ/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, interloper /ˌɪntəˈləʊ̯pə/, devastated /ˈdɛv.əˌsteɪ.təd/, transparency /tɹænsˈpæɹənsi/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: booze /buz/, swerve /swɝv/, utilise /ˈjuːtɪlaɪz/, humid /ˈhjuːmɪd/, beforehand /bɪˈfɔɹhænd/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: chatter /ˈt͡ʃætɚ/, galley /ˈɡæli/, rattle /ˈɹæ.təl/, wrangle /ˈɹæŋɡəl/, beforehand /bɪˈfɔɹhænd/
/g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: galley /ˈɡæli/, wrangle /ˈɹæŋɡəl/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, goodness /ˈɡʊdnəs/

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Zinnen om te herhalen

Grammatica in deze video

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Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?