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Welcome to the show, mate.

It's good to meet you at last.

I'm so happy to be here.

Thank you for having me.

I'm such a fan.

Yeah, same.

You're doing incredible work, and it is work.

You've worked really hard to get to this place where you can step on stage at these festivals, and you can really make that impression,

which you already know is first for a lot of people.

Yeah.

And really walk off that stage and know that you left it all there.

And I'm watching these videos online like everybody else

and seeing these reviews and looking at the comments on my algorithm and whatever, and it's incredible, dude.

Thank you.

I am so happy that people are connecting with me and with my music.

My face is all over this room.

It's fucking creepy. But it's awesome also.

But also, and I mean this with the greatest of respect, you're not afraid of that.

Like there's darkness in your music and your imagery.

Like, I mean, it's only creepy to some degree because you've created an album cover, which is kind of creepy in a cool way.

Yeah, I have that little fuck ass smirk going.

I think this album cover is sick.

I think a lot of people don't really fuck with it, but I love it.

Why?

I don't know.

I think they just are like, what is this face that she's making?

I love it.

I think it's cool.

I mean, it looks like you've literally just jumped around the corner and surprised, and then you're out again.

That's right.

That's exactly what happened.

This was the last shot of the day, too.

It was not supposed to be the cover, but I love it.

It's very not polished, which is kind of what I am, I think.

Well, you're a paradox in that regard because you incredibly dialed into your craft and have put so much into this.

I feel like a life, you know, on this journey to get to this point.

But somehow you do want to keep it with edge.

It's got teeth.

I got teeth, you know.

I'm from Slovakia.

I have that

Eastern European feistiness to me.

Just ask my boyfriend.

I'm sure he'd talk.

I'm sure he wouldn't.

Yeah, I'm sure he would not, actually, if I did my job right.

Hopefully not but um yeah i think that's what i am

and i also yeah i think it's weird because i'm a ballerina

and i i value like technicality and singing and dancing

so much but i think that's why i needed to kind of break out

and be a little raw at times because ballet is

so perfect all the time where i felt like a little suffocated is

that why you decided to go from prima to pop star that's right

and now i get to do both hopefully prima pop star no you do and it's a beautiful hybrid you know

Because, and it's awesome how you've been able to explain to people very clearly through your craft

and also through your videos that like, I'm not just talking shit here.

Like I have the discipline to do that, but I don't have the discipline to see it through.

Because once you, am I right?

You're kind of right.

That's like ultimately what my life has always been.

I'm like, okay, this is cool.

Like there's a lot of like, there's a lot of like steps where like, if you do this, this will happen.

And then it's, it becomes like a little too repetitive, a little too kind of,

it just like confines me into something that I feel like I can't let loose.

I can't like stretch.

Well, you know, the only option you have when you make that call is to work for yourself.

That's right.

And I do, which is awesome, which is why I'm so late to the show.

You're not, you're right on time.

You're pop star early.

Dude, I had to wait for Eminem for four days once.

You're fine.

That's a true story.

I love it days

i was like in tokyo for four days just like how

long am i going to be in tokyo for as long as eminem wants

you to be he's like all right i guess i'm staying i don't know

if i'm slim shady level yeah how did you feel

when this was taking shape in the room and you had this kind of like really

edgy pretty deep four on the floor electro banger yeah

and you were like okay that's my first single yeah

this song kind of went through a a lot of different iterations

and at first i really hated it yep

and why can you tell me why it was just

i was just like is this the worst thing on earth

like i was like i was like this this just suck rat's ass

and then we kept we kept making it

and then we kept tweaking it

and i was like then i i had like a complete ego trip

and i was like this is the best thing ever

and then so i was like clearly this is like a very polarizing thing

and i just i liked it

and also just like it tells my story completely it's really clever in

that regard you know it's you know i'm a spy man

i studied this shit

it's like where you come from what it means the imagery the idea yeah

it's a very quick narrative pull yeah yeah

and i i was like this this needs to be on the album

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it needs to be the first track like that was the only way

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that i was able to see it

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and then it was the first single obviously

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and i was just like this just tells you who i am

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because it's not serious

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but it also like literally kind of is though i mean the kgb is a pretty serious image

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and you're kind of fucking with some pretty

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it's this is not the stuff of like you know like

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this isn't like comedy spy movie stuff like you say the kgb

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it's like it does exist no the kgb is very serious

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it's very real let me rephrase the kgb is very serious

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and i do not fuck with those guys um

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but it's unserious to use it in the sense that i am

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and and obviously it's affected my country and where i'm from like Slovakia

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and my people heavily and

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so I was just like this is just kind of like laugh through the pain type thing

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and just fuck man like I'm gonna use

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it for my benefit can a bitch from Slovakia just use this shit for her benefit for once yeah

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and so I was like this is you know it's just kind of a tongue -in -cheek thing to say

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but also like the virtues are completely true

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they're just like stupid like they're like I was like eight doing the night shift can we talk about

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that fact to learn English can we talk about

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that fact it's not it's not if you really

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if you like music the first time you heard

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that song you're not skipping that statement no

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and the way you say it is like no one says

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that because it rhymes no you say it

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because you want people to know it's true it is it's the truth

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I was I was like eight working the night shift to learn English

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it's it's correct where are you working the night shift at

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eight years old um youtube yeah yeah yeah sorry to mention

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it here it's not fine we're all on the tubes okay don't worry about it's all good is

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that fine i was gonna spotify amazon youtube yeah yeah yeah streaming streaming spend your money

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it's just distributions of choice go get

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it it's all good um apple music yeah that's fucking what's up right

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there it's fine we all know they exist

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we just all know who's best i love your soundboard man

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this is my dream you don't get to play with

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that sorry i didn't i wasn't gonna ask that's fine there are rules for this shit i i would assume so

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if i had a sound sound desk i would also have rules

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you can have one on stage though you get a little box

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and every time you do something good or you say something dope just like

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if you just be like you know just bomb yourself just be like man truth bomb yourself just

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because you should totally you should do that my own biggest hype man um how hard was it

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Well, at that age, at eight years old, you were open and able to absorb things very quickly.

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I mean, your brain is going 1 ,000 miles an hour, so new skills to some degree on a cerebral level should come fast.

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But how was that time for you, and what really motivated you to want to learn English?

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Because I understand that it's a part of the global experience

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if you want to go and achieve things in your life is to learn languages.

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But at eight years old, to be that dedicated, what was moving you?

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So I loved Hannah Montana growing up, and it was all dubbed over in Czech

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so I thought it was some girl from the Czech Republic

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and I thought that I would be able to do

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that one day I thought everybody was like kind of in a neighboring country

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and available to me yeah yeah

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and then my older brother was like nope like everything

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that you love is American everybody's American all the music

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that you love and it's so strange because the songs are not translated yeah so

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but to me it was just like music language yeah

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I was like you got the limo like i was singing it i think we can all understand

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that now especially in the wake of what's been happening in

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korea what's been happening in the latin american music markets

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we get it now it's like bad bunny is now the

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biggest most successful artist on the planet at least in my opinion that's right

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and he hasn't done one song in english

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and he shouldn't like it's it's interesting everything is

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so english america centered i mean i'm i guess kind of a hypocrite

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because i could do it in a different language

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but I choose not to but it's also like the language

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that a lot of people speak I mean Slovak is spoken by like five million people

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so I'd be really limiting myself

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but anyways I was just like whoa need to be Hannah Montana one day how are we gonna do this

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and so I got to cooking I had a little list a plan written

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and I was like okay I need to learn English

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if I can be American I can sound like an American and then

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when I'm 15 I'm gonna go to the disney channel headquarters

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i'm gonna go with my godfather who lives in hawaii he's not gonna mind

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we're gonna go for pilot season i looked up the address

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i like wrote it down oh my god i was like we're gonna go

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when i'm 15

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and i'm gonna audition i'm gonna get it wait how are you how old are you

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when you wrote this list i was like i mean whenever i could write

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so that was like what seven eight i was probably eight i was like eight

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so you're studying what pilot season is at eight years old

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Yeah, it's so strange.

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Like, why the fuck do you know that?

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But then I did.

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And so then I, it was obviously really embarrassing.

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Like, I was self -aware enough to not say these things out loud.

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Because I would just get bullied by my brother.

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Like, I would get annihilated.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And also, kids your own age don't want to know you're figuring it out.

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Hell no. It's so weird.

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Yeah.

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It's like, what are you doing?

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So then I was just like, okay, let me keep, let me grind in silence.

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And then I just watched YouTube a lot.

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And I would watch, like, interviews of my favorite singers.

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So that was like

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Miley Cyrus and like Ariana Grande and like Beyonce.

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I would watch these people on whatever the equivalent of the Zane Lowe show at that time was.

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The Zane Lowe show.

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But thanks for listening.

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I appreciate it.

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I was on the BB.

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That's fine.

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Were you actually?

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Yeah.

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Fuck.

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I'm just kidding.

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I'm just digging my hole deeper and deeper, man.

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I'm never going to get invited back.

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Buddy, I'll give you...

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Sorry, I only listen to Apple Music.

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I told you.

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Buddy, I'll give you the spade.

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I love the deeper, the deeper the hole, the better.

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That's where the jokes are.

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Are you kidding?

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That's our love language in New Zealand.

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Don't worry about it.

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You didn't really touch Slovakia, I have to tell you.

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Okay, fine.

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I wasn't big in Slovakia.

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There's truth in that.

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Sorry.

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There's truth in that.

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I mean, no, the truth hurts.

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I get it.

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It wasn't a big market for me.

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you were just dreaming the whole thing up and doing the work simultaneously

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which is the key right when you visualize and you know it's there

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and then you're like but it requires actual action yeah it was weird

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and then nobody knew and it took like a year i think i was like nine

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and i could just speak fluent english how did you reveal

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that to your parents

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and to the people in your life we were um on vacation one day

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and i i was so so shy as a kid

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and my older brother was like can you fucking ask for your coke yourself like please just do it

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and I was like okay

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and I just spoke like fluent English in front of my family and they're like who are you yeah

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what happened they're like that's

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but it wasn't like harmful they were like this is just really strange

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and I guess she's like she has her special interests

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but like it was really strange they're like well how did you do

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that I was like I just like watched the internet

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and like there's moments on this album that are very deep

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and thoughtful and you've really found an emotional lane

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that goes with um you know the teethiest stuff

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we were talking about before yeah i agree i think

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it's important um i'm a girl i get sad yeah

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i get you know happy i i want to have sex

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i don't want to have sex yeah i want to love

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i i get heartbroken it's like it's all in a day's work

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there's one piece of music on the record i won't say what name it is

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but um it really is just a stream of consciousness through an autotune yeah yeah yeah

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and i and when i heard it for the first time i said to the mutual friend

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that we have who you worked with on the record

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that's right shout out to blake shout out to blake slatkin

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i love you yeah i love him i love you too blake

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and he played me that music the whole album i was blown away

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and um thank you and i got to that song

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and i was like

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that is a really powerful statement at this point in your life thank you

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because the words are so real but also the way

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that you made it sound modern and interesting and creative

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and not just a poet not just a statement

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or a stream of consciousness yeah super weird and eccentric

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and brilliant thank you i i felt

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that it was needed i think there's a lot of moments on this record

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that are you know the on the like cuntier side as we were saying

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and and i am that and i have a lot of fun

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and i laugh a lot and i'm sexy a lot

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and yada yada yada

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but i you know there's a lot of sadness in me honestly yeah um

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and it's there's a lot of things

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that i feel like i kind of navigating

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this career have like not expected to like hit me as hard as they are being away from family

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i think is a big one for you right yeah being away from my family

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i i have a little sister oh that's heartbreaking

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when you have a a kid involved

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and you have to leave them for like prolonged periods of time it's you see the passing of time

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so much more you sum

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that up beautifully on this record at one point where you talk about like i don't even know

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if she's gonna look at me the same way anymore

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or look at me like that that influence and that friend

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that i was to her yeah and and honestly she like probably doesn't

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and kind of in a way shouldn't like you got to find your own identity at some point right

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it is a fact of life

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but it still hurts yeah it hurts i wish i could be at a hundred different places at once

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but i hope that um through my independence

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and through achieving my dreams on my own terms i um give her something different

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but still valuable you know what i mean there's a lot of things

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that drive ambition especially in the world of the arts

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and in music a lot of reasons why you want to do it yeah is one of those reasons

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because ultimately you want to try to create a better life for the people that you love the most.

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Absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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I love my family, but I love my mom and my sister.

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I've always valued women in my life and I felt the closest to women in my life.

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And I really want to, you know, one day take care of them and move them out here with me and have a nice life.

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But the financials are not there yet we'll get there soon hopefully fuck

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if y 'all fucking stream this album yeah man please yeah yeah

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but like i mean again i don't worry

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you should we shouldn't worry about adela yeah i agree i'm not worried

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which is awesome um because i do think it's gonna come but yeah there's like real life stuff that i Bye -bye.

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I feel all the time and I don't necessarily talk about it much because it's not like

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it's easy like to write a pop song about that

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but that's why I think this track like therapy is the track on the album

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that talks about that it's important because I think people need to see

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that I'm a human you know I miss my family I miss my little sister I had to go away and

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um and i'm fortunate enough that i had the opportunity to go away

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and make my dreams come true how did you get

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that opportunity what was the moment when you knew that you could do that

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um i always i always thought i would

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and frankly i mean it was just when i got into the show like

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um pop star academy the show that i was on when i got scouted and there was like

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hundreds and thousands of submissions but i was one of them

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and i thought i had zero chance because i was from slovakia

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and a big part of those competitions is like you choose the people

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that are going to bring you the biggest market yeah which slovakia is not the biggest market yeah

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so i mean that was that was the confirmation i hope

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that i would get to do it somehow some way

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but there wasn't any clear path how did you navigate

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that experience of competing with people your own age

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that ultimately you can empathize with because you're all there to try to achieve your dreams and your goals.

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But you know

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that it's all going to come down to a small group of people who are going to make that group.

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And I always think like for the entertainment value of these types of shows, it's Hunger Games, man.

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It's like, how do you tell somebody that age

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that they should be competing at that level with a smile on their face

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and then going away to try to beat someone

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it's just a it's an odd paradox don't you think yeah I think what's interesting

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and this has been a theme in my life even in ballet is like everybody assumes

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that the girls and like the peers would have the the worst kind of interactions

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and the biggest competition but I found

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that there's like girls especially young girls we really held together

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and we and we had each other's backs and that's something

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that honestly is the biggest takeaway for me is how emotionally

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intelligent young women are um contrary to how we are often portrayed

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but even in the show i think

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we were portrayed differently than how things actually went down yeah for you know entertainment value yeah

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i think the thing that i've i've um taken away from

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that is that

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and on the opposite side of the spectrum how the actual like people in power are the ones

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that just fuck with you they just fuck shit up

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and they actually have nothing figured out

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and you're just there to um experience the blow of

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that of those decisions

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or lack thereof i don't even know how they get a seat at this table yeah there's this table

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that these and i'm just going to say these men yeah all around yeah

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and i don't even know how they get this who decides like hey there's a seat for you now

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but you know what half the time i'm like i'm not even sure

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you actually even understand what's going on no

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but then sometimes i think they don't understand and they really do

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which is also weird and then that fucks with you too because you're like

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man do i know anything about anything probably not so

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but the the honestly the worst part to me is nowadays like there were women

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that had a seat at the table and there are

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and I feel like I didn't see enough of like protection

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and um kind of understanding I mean if I I hope the bigger I

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I hope to take care of artists and women, especially in the entertainment industry.

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I mean, like, look at Olivia Rodrigo and Daisy Chainfield.

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Can we just do that, please?

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Can we just do that on every single level, right down to making sure there's no clashes in the schedule so everyone gets an audience?

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God, so good.

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The most thoughtful person right now in front of an audience making art, in my opinion.

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Not to create hierarchy around that, but I say that to inspire others to be that thoughtful

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because she is seeing every opportunity as a chance to do the right thing.

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I agree.

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And I've been saying this for a long time.

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She's my goat.

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And I think she's just a young legend.

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She's actually a big reason of why I'm even here.

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Why?

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Weirdly, before Drivers Listens even came out, there was an Elle article with Olivia and she mentioned her voice teacher.

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Um, Jennifer Dussman and.

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I looked her up because I was like Olivia sounds amazing

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and I looked her up and she was cheaper than the voice teacher

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that I was taking lessons from at the time and

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so I reached out to her I started taking zoom lessons with her in Slovakia

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and she was following Interscope and then they posted the audition for the show

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that I was on and she was like you should audition for this

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so I'm like I don't know if Olivia Rodrigo

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and then I put out driver's lessons I don't know

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if I would be here which is so weird

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and I told her this too and we like bonded over this weird

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butterfly effect thing the butterfly effect is

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so beautiful i live for this stuff yeah

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and i'm just such a fan man because this is all like

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if you're a woman if you're anybody and you have such amazing success

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and she didn't have to put on this festival that's like charity

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and she's not making money off this you took your time making this record i know

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that because i was touching base with people who are working on a particular blake

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and he was like you know we're taking our time we're getting it right yeah

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so how how was

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that keeping how did you keep a balance as someone who

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was probably in a real hurry to release a record at least part of your psychology is like oh

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i've been waiting my whole life to do this absolutely

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but you're taking a time to get

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it right is an interesting kind of conflict yeah

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i at the start of making this record

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i had a moment where i kind of was freaking out a little bit not going to lie

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and i was like this needs to come out sooner rather then later

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and it was supposed to come out honestly way sooner than it is now but um

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Blake and Dylan Brady they like sat me down

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and they're like you cannot be doing what people want you to do that's like the thing

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that makes you unique that's the one thing that we love about you

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and people love about you is like you need to do what feels right for you

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and that's such a simple concept and everybody tells you to do

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that until they're put in a position where there's pressure on them

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and they feel that there's eyes on them and there's opportunities

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that they need to seize it's the first thing that goes away when

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that happens yeah the first thing you forget is like wait a minute

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i actually need to honor my own yeah thing

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and your own your own your gut

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and like everybody always tells you trust your gut

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and you're like okay shut up i'm gonna do obviously i'm gonna trust my gut

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but you need to trust your gut

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and like the tiniest little decisions every little inkling of a feeling

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that you have you need to honor it which is

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so crazy because it's like to have that level of confidence

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and and believe in yourself especially being an artist starting out is hard

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but I I understand I I think I'm still learning it

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but I'm understanding that that's just the only way to do it

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because also like if I make something

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that I'm just like somebody wants this somewhere and I know that they see me like this and they're gonna like this

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But I don't like it

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Nowadays you don't get guaranteed success

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For a record

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It's like People need to actually like it

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People need to actually know it exists

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Before we even get a chance

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Everyone's going to like something

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If we could actually just put your music

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In front of an audience that might be even

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Remotely open to it based on their taste

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And it actually worked

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And social media actually did what they promised

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In the beginning which was work for the people

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Who work for them Exactly.

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They don't.

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They open the door and let you find an audience, and now they're like, well, we control your audience, not you.

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So you can't even find the people that like your shit anymore.

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No, it's really wild.

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It's a totally dysfunctional relationship.

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The social media of it all, it's so funny, obviously.

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But also, music is way more democratized now, right?

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I mean, if it wasn't for the internet, I'm not going to sit here and just shit on it

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because I would never be here if it wasn't for social media.

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No, but two things can be right

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but yeah it's it gets it gets tricky it's fickle and

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so to me i'm like okay well there's no guarantee

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that anybody's actually gonna even hear this or like it

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so the only thing that i can do is like it myself

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because that's what do you like yeah that's it that's it

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because otherwise i'm gonna want to just kill myself

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if i'm putting out songs that i don't even like

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and then no one is listening too

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because they're not being fed them yeah it's like okay well

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then now what there's a cycle of violence right here

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this is not going anywhere yeah this is bad this is just bad bad and worse

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so it's like so i just need to make something

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that i at least fuck with and then hope and pray and

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fucking you know cross my fingers that someone's gonna hear it

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and so where does work play into this then for people who are listening listening

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and watching this right now who are also in the hope

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and praise space of their life right but but we all know

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that there is like an undeniable part of this equation

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which is the work you put in yeah how does

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that roll into this kind of great unknown era that we're in

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because to my point before

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there are more unknowns in terms of can i actually find

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an audience than there ever was before for anyone releasing any having the courage to release anything i don't know Oh.

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like it's fickle man and i'm not gonna sit here

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and act like hard work equals success yeah yeah

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because it doesn't there needs to be

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so many things at play i mean i was even privileged enough yes i'm from slovakia

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but i was privileged enough to for my family to just support me

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and my dreams i never had to work three jobs

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and do music and ballet on the side

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when i had time yeah like arts are not accessible

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and it's that's right they're not to everybody not they're not at all

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and it's really frustrating

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and it's unfortunate at the same time I guess social media is able to sometimes work well in cases like

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that but what do you do if it hits

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and you're not ready for it and you don't have the work ethic

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and you haven't got the framework or the architecture or the dream

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or any of that and you get something and then it's just like, wait a minute, I don't actually know what to do with this.

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Yeah, it's so strange to really truly like succeed and find an audience and fans and build a thing today.

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It's a mystery to me.

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I mean, I'm doing it for the first time and I'm just like, what the fuck is going on?

493

You know what's cool about the way this is working for you now as well is

494

because you came out on the first few songs

495

and the performance level was so high in terms of like shows

496

and videos and imaging with the imagery was so strong and striking.

497

Thank you.

498

That you presented a really clear vision out the gate.

499

But what's really been really fun in the last, I would honestly say really just few weeks or month is that you're like,

500

all right, now I get to just be myself and actually let people hear what I'm like as a person.

501

Yeah.

502

And like, you are a really, really interesting person to talk with.

503

Like we're supposed to be well off the air by now

504

and thanks to you and your team who have been really cool about this

505

and the artists who we've pushed back no we appreciate

506

it i mean you know no i'm not sorry at all

507

but it's like you you obviously realized maybe did you come to the conclusion

508

it's like okay it's time for me to reveal myself

509

because i didn't feel like you were doing too much of

510

that in the beginning no i think i also i mean the first thing

511

that i put out was a reaction to the way

512

that I was presented to people that wasn't in my control

513

which is through this show I wasn't in charge of the editing

514

and making it as real as I could have been

515

so I think it was all about the specific thing in my life

516

and now with this album I think I get to be a human

517

and I get to talk about the things that aren't that

518

which means talking about my family like we talked about

519

and talking about my love life and yada yada yada whatever the fuck

520

but it's like there's a spectrum like i wanted this album to feel like a conversation between me

521

and my girlfriends because it's

522

so funny like you can start the night by just like talking about

523

so much deep stuff like me missing my family

524

and like being an immigrant yada yada yada again yeah

525

and then you end it with like broke dick as best dick

526

and that's the duality of a woman so that's on the album too

527

and i i do think bro dick is the best dick is going on the board

528

that's amazing i mean it's it's i've had it

529

i would never lie i i've met a few times now a couple of your besties

530

and i don't and i can only imagine the kind of conversations you guys have

531

because they are real ones it's they're real ones

532

we did this shit trust me

533

we were traumatized as fuck by the internet like yeah yeah

534

we were just a bunch of teenage girls like we are wild come on it's been such a joy man

535

i you know

536

So that is like an outright smash, life -changing hit record.

537

I hope so.

538

It should be.

539

I would love that.

540

She's going to love it.

541

I think she is.

542

She was like, is it nice?

543

I'm like.

544

It's very nice.

545

You think I would ever write something not nice about you, Nicole Kidman?

546

You're going to be smashing pints of Foster's down at like, you know, Bondi Beach at some point.

547

Bondi Beach.

548

Bondi Beach, mate.

549

Bondi Beach.

550

Adela, we don't worry about you hey thank you guys you uh like such a brilliant brilliant artist

551

and such a fantastic pop star of the times you know

552

and i just want to say as as we say goodbye

553

that like it should be it should be noted as well

554

that um you may not know what to do with the with with the hard work

555

but you really put it in and this this has not landed for you

556

and been given to you and you have studied this game

557

and you know what moves the needle and you know how to reach people you've just done it your way

558

And I just want to say that you're about to go on this incredible lifelong journey and have amazing experiences.

559

But that really is the tenet that people should always remember through the success.

560

So if anyone decides to get on those comments and start to say whatever they want to say, just remember that there's levels to this shit.

561

Shit, I'll save this and listen to this before I go to sleep.

562

There's levels to this shit.

563

Thank you.

564

I appreciate it.

565

And you've known that since you were eight years old.

566

Thank you.

567

And man, life is waiting for you.

568

Hey.

569

Yeah.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “ADÉLA: The PRIMA Interview”. This video has 569 sentences and 6061 words to shadow. The speech runs for 30:40. The speaker talks fast, about 198 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
lesson noun	/ˈlɛs.ən/	A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
creepy adjective	/ˈkɹipi/	Moving by creeping along.
ballet noun	/bælˈeɪ/	A classical form of dance.
imagery noun	/ˈɪmɪd͡ʒɹi/	The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.
thoughtful adjective	/ˈθɔːtfəl/	Demonstrating thought or careful consideration.
audition noun	/ɑˈdɪʃən/	A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent.
guarantee noun	/ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/	Anything that assures a certain outcome.
reveal verb	/ɹɪˈviːl/	To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.
buddy	/ˈbʌdi/	A person far removed from the conversation.
compete verb	/kəmˈpiːt/	To be in battle or in a rivalry with another for the same thing, position, or reward; to contend.
regard noun	/ɹɪˈɡɑːd/	A steady look, a gaze.
craft noun	/ˈkɹæft/	Ability, skillfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning…
spectrum noun	/ˈspɛktɹəm/	A range; a continuous, infinite, one-dimensional set, possibly bounded by extremes.
discipline noun	/ˈdɪsəplɪn/	A controlled behaviour; self-control.
privilege noun	/ˈpɹɪv.(ɪ.)lɪd͡ʒ/	A particular benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity enjoyed by some but not others; a prerogative, preferential treatment.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
go away verb		To depart or leave a place.
put out verb		To blind (eyes).
blow away verb		To cause to go away by blowing, or by wind.
break out verb		To escape, especially forcefully or defiantly.
come down to verb		To reach by moving down or reducing.
figure out verb		To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
go down verb		To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

It's good to meet you at last.
I'm so happy to be here.
Because once you, am I right?
It's like, what are you doing?
Can we just do that, please?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	what's been happening · I've been saying · i've been waiting
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if you do this, this will happen
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	You've worked · you've created · you've literally just jumped
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	are not translated · is spoken · was blown

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 194 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: thoughtful /ˈθɔːtfəl/, algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/, thereof /ðɛˈɹʌv/, ethic /ˈɛθ.ɪk/, empathize /ˈɛmpəˌθaɪz/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: audition /ɑˈdɪʃən/, consciousness /ˈkɑnʃəsnəs/, smash /smæʃ/, shout /ʃaʊt/, conclusion /kənˈkluːʒən/
Long words — get the stress right: necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, architecture /ˈɑː.kɪˌtɛk.t͡ʃə/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, psychology /saɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, intelligent /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like lesson, creepy, ballet.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?