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Selena Gomez in the window.
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I'm so excited for this.
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Selena!
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Hi!
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Hope you're ready for this 73 questions interview.
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Not before we put on some intro music.
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Great, cue it up.
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Titles?
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Titles.
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Flip it around.
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Flip it around.
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Okay, so what were you doing at this moment I came by?
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Not stalking you.
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What did you find yourself doing a lot these days?
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Playing heads up.
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What's your current obsession?
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Heads up.
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Can you make any prediction about anything exactly one year from now?
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I think I'll be doing a lot of traveling.
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Besides doing adventurous interviews like this, what do you do on your days off?
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Hang out with my friends.
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Where's your favorite place to visit in the world?
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Europe.
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What specific thing do you love the most about Texas?
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The people.
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What's the most enjoyable activity when you're home in Texas?
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Eating my Nana's food.
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What's something you own that you truly cherish?
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My jewelry.
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What's the one thing you can never live without? without?
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My family.
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Out of all the hobbies in the world, what's one hobby that you'll never give up?
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Dancing.
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Thanks.
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What's one hobby that you plan on picking up?
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Learning new languages.
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What's something you'd like to say to your 112 million Instagram followers?
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I get to do what I love every single day and it's because of you.
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Thank you.
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So I went on YouTube and found a cover of your song by a musician named Marie Britton.
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What do What do you think of her?
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Kill them with kindness, kill them with kindness, kill them with kindness.
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Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead now.
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That's why I do what I do.
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Do you want to go outside?
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Love to.
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Hang on, let me grab something real quick.
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Okay.
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Selena, how would you describe yourself in three words?
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Loyal, kind, giving.
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What's a pet peeve that you have?
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People who are rude.
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What scares you the most?
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Losing someone I love.
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What makes you the angriest?
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People who act entitled.
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Ugh.
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Who's the most fashionable woman that you know?
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Natalie Portman.
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What's a fashion trend that can never let you down?
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Skinny jeans. Which one?
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Mmm, let's go with that one right there.
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This one?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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What's one fashion trend that you try that you regret the most?
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Shoulder pads.
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What's one fashion trend you hope will never ever come back?
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Shoulder pads.
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What's your favorite exercise?
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Pilates.
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What's the best song to run around to?
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Don't stop believin'.
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What's your spirit animal?
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Meryl Streep.
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Hey.
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Yo.
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Hey, Selena.
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What second language should I teach my newborn child?
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Japanese.
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Selena, what's your favorite candy?
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Twizzlers.
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What's your favorite thing to eat?
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Everything.
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What's your least favorite thing to eat?
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Greens.
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Dessert you can't live without.
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Chocolate cake.
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Alright.
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Gotta think hard on this one.
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What is your first memory in life?
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My mom painting.
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Who do you look up to most in life?
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My mom.
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What's the best piece of advice you've received from your mom?
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Treat others how you wish to be treated.
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What's a good rule you've learned from your parents?
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Everyone is equal and everything happens for a reason.
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What advice would you give your 15-year-old self?
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Go ahead and do it, because you're going to do it anyway.
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What's something you know now that you didn't know then?
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Patience.
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Where do you see yourself in ten years?
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Hopefully happy.
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What TV show have you binge watched these days?
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Curb your enthusiasm.
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Fictional character you'd want to spend a day with.
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Mad Hatter.
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Fictional place you'd love to live in.
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Wonderland.
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What's the last movie that made you cry?
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Hacksaw Ridge.
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What's a movie you can watch over and over again?
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Crazy Stupid Love.
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Alright, what was your favorite movie as a kid?
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The Wizard of Oz.
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Do you have any hidden talents?
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I don't think they're that hidden anymore.
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This is what you get.
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OK, can you say anything in a foreign language?
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Es complicado para explicar.
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Right, right.
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What's your go-to dance move?
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Oh, that's my thought.
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What's the biggest surprise you've ever had?
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A romantic dinner on a rooftop.
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What's the best gift that you've ever received?
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A jewelry box.
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What's one thing people would be most surprised to know about you?
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How much I love depressing things.
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Yeah, it's my mom.
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Oh, she says, what's your favorite thing about your mom?
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Ha, her laugh.
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What's the coolest thing about your family?
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How good we are at arguing.
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What's the silliest nickname ever given to you?
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Flaca.
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In general, when do you feel most beautiful?
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When I'm with the people I love.
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When do you feel most creative?
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When I'm sad.
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Do you want to listen to music?
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Would love to.
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What kind?
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Kind of in the mood for some royalty-free elevator music.
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Oh my gosh, that's what I was just listening to before you got here.
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Chances of that.
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Perfect.
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Okay, I think it's time for a bunch of music questions.
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Okay.
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What's your favorite song to blast in the car?
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That's what I like, Bruno Mars.
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If you recorded a secret song, what would your pseudonym be?
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Elenis...
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Zomeg.
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If your life were a song, what would the title be?
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I'm still figuring it all out.
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Do you remember what your first concert was?
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Britney Spears.
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What's the most experimental genre of music you'd ever try out?
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Jazz.
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Who's an artist we'd be surprised that you listen to?
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Patsy Cline?
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What musician would you love to collaborate with?
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Elvis Presley.
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What's the best jingle ever created?
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Call 1-800-STEAMERS Stanley Steamer make carpet cleaner!
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That's the best jingle.
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If you look behind you...
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I just did that.
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Okay.
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There is a foam board.
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And can you write down your favorite word of all time right here.
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Oh, oh.
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Grateful.
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Uh, can you now write out your tag?
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Yeah.
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Had that since sixth grade.
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Not bad.
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Okay.
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If you pretend your finger is a can of spray paint, can you pretend to be a graffiti artist and draw something crazy and we'll fill it in post?
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And what am I supposed to be seeing?
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Lots of frogs smoking a cigar.
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And what color do you want the frog smoking a cigar to be?
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Magenta.
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Done.
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Okay, six more questions left before I'm going to have to say goodbye.
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Aww, get up.
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But, if you had to choose another career, what would you be doing?
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I would be a chef.
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What do you have left on your bucket list?
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I'm going to jump out of something.
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You're a triple threat.
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What would make it a quadruple threat?
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I guess I'll find out.
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Can you tell me a secret?
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I think I was born in the wrong era.
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Can you tell me a lie?
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I have a twin.
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I know it may hurt you for me to say this, but...
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Last question.
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Okay.
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Can you end this interview with the worst joke you've ever heard?
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What did the pirate say on his 80th birthday?
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I don't know.
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Aye matey!
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Just leave.
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Bye, Selena.
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Bye.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Selena Gomez Answers 73 Questions”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: favorite, Selena, mom, song. This video has 211 sentences and 1193 words to shadow. The speech runs for 7:37. The speaker talks at a natural 157 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 78 of its 211 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| hobby noun | /ˈhɑ.bi/ | An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time. |
| kindness noun | /ˈkaɪnd.nəs/ | The state of being kind. |
| jingle noun | /ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡ(ə)l/ | The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself. |
| cigar noun | /sɪˈɡɑɹ/ | A cylinder of tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked. |
| jewellery noun | /ˈd͡ʒʊ-/ | Collectively, personal ornamentation such as rings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets, made of precious metals and sometimes set with gemstones. |
| fictional adjective | /ˈfɪkʃənəl/ | Invented, as opposed to real. |
| pad noun | /pæd/ | A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on. |
| musician noun | /mjuˈzɪʃən/ | A composer, conductor, or performer of music; specifically, a person who sings and/or plays a musical instrument as a hobby, occupation, or profession. |
| flip verb | /flɪp/ | To throw so as to turn over. |
| pretend verb | /pɹəˈtɛnd/ | To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance. |
| adventurous adjective | /ædˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ.əs/ | Inclined to adventure; willing to take risks; prone to embark on hazardous enterprises; daring. |
| hacksaw noun | A saw, with a blade that is put under tension, for cutting metal | |
| magenta noun | /məˈd͡ʒɛntə/ | A color which is close to the equal mixture of red and blue which is an additive secondary color but a subtractive primary color evoked by the combination of… |
| pseudonym noun | /ˈsu.də.nɪm/ | A fictitious name (more literally, a false name), as those used by writers and movie stars. |
| quadruple adjective | /kwɑˈdɹu.pəl/ | Being four times as long, as big or as many of something. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| go ahead verb | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | To proceed with; to begin. |
| come back verb | To return to a place. | |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. | |
| give up verb | To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone). | |
| look up to verb | To show respect or admiration for (someone); to see (someone) as a role model. | |
| pick up verb | To lift; to grasp and raise. | |
| try out verb | To test (something) to see how it works or whether it is suitable. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Where's your favorite place to visit in the world?
- What's something you own that you truly cherish?
- What's the one thing you can never live without?
- What's one hobby that you plan on picking up?
- What's a pet peeve that you have?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | you've received · you've learned · you've ever had |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be treated · was born |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | People who are · People who act |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the most enjoyable · the angriest · the most fashionable |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 31 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you've, you'd. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: fictional /ˈfɪkʃənəl/, musician /mjuˈzɪʃən/, cherish /ˈt͡ʃɛɹɪʃ/, fashionable /ˈfæʃənəbl̩/, obsession /əbˈsɛʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: adventurous /ædˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ.əs/, collaborate /kəˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/, elevator /ˈɛləˌveɪtɚ/, enthusiasm /ɪnˈθuziæzəm/, experimental /ɪkspɛɹəˈmɛntəl/
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 hobby, kindness, jingle.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.