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🎶 Raye has opened up about the day she signed her huge record deal... · KIIS Breakfast

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  Speaker 1: This is Kiss Breakfast. With a hit of celebrity gossip,
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  Speaker 1: what are you following?
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  Speaker 2: We all know Rae by now because she's had huge hits,
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  Speaker 2: but a lot of people don't realise that she's actually
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  Speaker 2: been making music for over 10 years. In fact, when
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  Speaker 2: we used to work on the other radio station together, Mikey,
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  Speaker 2: we were playing her songs before anyone knew who she was.
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  Speaker 3: What other songs?
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  Speaker 2: She had a song called You Don't Know Me with
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  Speaker 2: Jax Jones.
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  Speaker 3: You don't know me.
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  Speaker 1: Nope.
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  Speaker 3: You don't know me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And she also songwrites for people as well.
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  Speaker 1: So a bit like Zara Larsson is she like had
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  Speaker 1: a few hits, but no one really knew. And then
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  Speaker 1: she became bigger. Is that kind of?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, she kind of blew up when she dropped
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  Speaker 2: Prada first, like five or so years ago.
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  Speaker 3: But Where Is My Husband was like the biggest, most
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  Speaker 3: recent one. Did she do Prada? Yeah. Oh, that was
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  Speaker 3: a collab with a few people, right? I think so.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, in this new interview, she recounts the day
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  Speaker 2: that she signed her very first record deal, which you
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  Speaker 2: think would be the happiest.
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  Speaker 3: Moment in a singer's life, right?
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  Speaker 2: It's like they finally got their big break and a signing,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and they're going to be famous and make
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  Speaker 2: all this money. But it wasn't for her. And she
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  Speaker 2: explains why it wasn't the happiest day of her life.
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  Speaker 3: You know what?
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  Speaker 4: My signing day was a bit of a mess. I
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  Speaker 4: was drying my tears. What happened?
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  Speaker 1: I've met with a huge music.
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  Speaker 4: Executive who promised me the sun and the stars. There's
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  Speaker 4: an artist I'm a super fan of. They said to me,
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  Speaker 4: we played this artist your music and they've agreed to
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  Speaker 4: endorse you. I'm literally like, are you joking?
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 4: Like, I'm literally like... my life's gonna change, I've made it.
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  Speaker 4: Basically the idea was it was supposed to be a
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  Speaker 4: collaborative deal between the UK and the US. This big
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  Speaker 4: music executive calls me and he's like, you can't sign
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  Speaker 4: this contract. And I'm like, what do you mean? I'm
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  Speaker 4: 17 years old, I'm in a session. And he's like,
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  Speaker 4: you can't sign it, if you sign it then I'm
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  Speaker 4: gonna step back, I'm gonna withdraw my, like it was
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  Speaker 4: so cold to rug under my feet. If I didn't
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  Speaker 4: sign my record deal, in the Universal Building that evening,
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  Speaker 4: the contract was gonna be withdrawn. I was literally stood
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  Speaker 4: outside the Universal Building in floods of tears with my parents,
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  Speaker 4: either side of me. I was like, I don't know
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  Speaker 4: what I'm gonna do. Like, I don't wanna miss my shot.
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  Speaker 4: I don't wanna waste my shot. I don't wanna be stupid.
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  Speaker 4: I don't wanna make the wrong decision. um so i
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  Speaker 4: went into the building and signed the contract ah.
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  Speaker 1: She did okay yeah well it'd be full on for a.
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  Speaker 2: Young girl yeah but also you hear of so many
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  Speaker 2: bad record deals like taylor swift's back in the day
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  Speaker 2: where she didn't own the rights to any of her
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  Speaker 2: music and that's why she's re-recorded it and stuff like
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  Speaker 2: that so there's a lot of people who just sign
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  Speaker 2: because they get so excited by the fact that they're
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  Speaker 2: getting a record deal that they actually sign away a
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  Speaker 2: lot of their rights well who was it.
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  Speaker 1: The other week was it n-sync we were talking about
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  Speaker 1: they're only He paid $ 30 or something.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, they got $ 30 per diem a day. It's Jojo
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  Speaker 2: that had, like, leave, get out, and she disappeared. It's
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  Speaker 2: because she didn't own any of her music as well,
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  Speaker 2: and her record label decided, we're not going to fund
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  Speaker 2: another album, but we've got you locked in for 10 years,
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  Speaker 2: so she can't do anything.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: People get ripped, especially the young ones that don't know
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  Speaker 1: what they're doing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very important to have- You're not getting, like,
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  Speaker 3: legal advice and stuff.
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  Speaker 4: No, no.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, very important to have good lawyers.
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  Speaker 3: Also, Alex Warren, obviously, Mikey, you loved his show. You went.
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  Speaker 3: You got free tickets.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Brilliant. I watched Ordinary. He did that well.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, I love his music. Did you not go to
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  Speaker 3: his show?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I went.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: What was the final song he performed?
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  Speaker 1: Ordinary. He did Fever Dream as well. Yeah, what was
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  Speaker 1: the first song?
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  Speaker 3: You're just naming songs he's got.
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  Speaker 1: First one. He started with Ordinary and ended with it.
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  Speaker 3: I know you do genuinely like it. You didn't go
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  Speaker 3: to his show, don't lie.
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  Speaker 2: I did.
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  Speaker 1: You got free tickets and everything? You got free tickets.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't go.
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  Speaker 2: But I do know you genuinely like Ordinary because you
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  Speaker 2: love a choir.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my God, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I love a choir too.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, like Madonna like a prince. Love.
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  Speaker 3: Yas queen.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, Alex Warren has revealed the really weird thing.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't mind signing for fans.
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  Speaker 3: And it's not tits before you ask.
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  Speaker 1: Bottoms. Not bottoms.
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  Speaker 2: No body parts actually. So if you don't know, Alex
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  Speaker 2: Warren had a really tough upbringing. So his father passed
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  Speaker 2: away when he was quite young. His mother suffered with
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  Speaker 2: alcoholism his whole life and passed away five years ago.
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  Speaker 2: And he was homeless in his teen years.
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  Speaker 3: He was living in cars from around 17 years old.
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  Speaker 2: His now wife actually lived in cars with him while
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  Speaker 2: he was trying to make it in music. So he
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  Speaker 2: was talking about the fact that because of his parents
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  Speaker 2: passing and he understands what that's like, he now doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mind signing.
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  Speaker 3: Other people's ashes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, like an urn.
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  Speaker 2: So apparently fans will bring their dead parents to his
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  Speaker 2: show and put the ashes in like an urn or
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  Speaker 2: even a bag and they'll bring them and ask if
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  Speaker 2: he can sign it.
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  Speaker 3: And he said he doesn't find it weird. It doesn't
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  Speaker 3: make him uncomfortable. In fact, he loves it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because he, like, and I did interview him, right?
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  Speaker 1: And he talks about.
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  Speaker 3: His- So you didn't even go to his show after
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  Speaker 3: you interviewed him?
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  Speaker 1: I did go to his show, but I, you know-
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  Speaker 1: Stop lying. And he gave me the free tickets during
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  Speaker 1: the interview. Oh, and you didn't go to his show.
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  Speaker 1: What are we talking about? Like his parents, his dad
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  Speaker 1: passed and- If you've got that kind of relationship or
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  Speaker 1: understanding of death when it's happened to you a lot,
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  Speaker 1: you would sign the Astros, wouldn't you?
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  Speaker 3: What's your thoughts on cremation?
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  Speaker 1: I want to be buried. Actually, no, I want to
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  Speaker 1: be stuffed and put on the couch so my wife
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  Speaker 1: always has to remember me. Oh, what's that called? Taxidermy.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, taxidermy. That's what's going to happen to me. I
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  Speaker 3: want to be cremated and put in a firework.
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  Speaker 1: Firework? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Did you hear? Wasn't it? Who smoked?
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  Speaker 1: Tupac.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: Tupac's mum smoked his ashes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: In a joint.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan could do that. He could smoke you.
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  Speaker 3: Smoke me? No, thank you. We like smoking meat. You
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  Speaker 3: could be a seasoning on his smoked meat. I could
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  Speaker 3: be a rub. I'll be a rub. I'll be a rub.
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  Speaker 3: Get the rub out, son. Let's put mum on the pork.
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  Speaker 3: We'll cover these ribs in mum.