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Interview: Louis Tomlinson · The Smallzy Show

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  Speaker 1: Smalsy, now on KISS Hi, it's Louis Tomlinson, taking over
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  Speaker 1: the Smalsy show KISS Hello mate, how you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good, how are you buddy?
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  Speaker 1: I'm alright lad, I'm alright, long time no speak.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, where are you right now? You look like you,
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  Speaker 2: have you just done some gymming or what's the story?
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  Speaker 1: Do I strike you as a gym guy? Have I
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  Speaker 1: ever struck you as a gym guy?
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  Speaker 2: No, but it looks like you have been No, you
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  Speaker 2: do look like you've been slightly active though this morning
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  Speaker 2: Am I right or wrong?
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  Speaker 1: I've only just woke up, to be fair. I'm still
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  Speaker 1: sleeping out my eyes. But yeah, I'm all right. I'm
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  Speaker 1: all right. Okay, good, good.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's wonderful to see you.
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  Speaker 1: Nice to see you too, lad. Nice to see you too. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I look forward to coming over.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we can't wait to have you. And so I
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  Speaker 2: guess we should get it straight out of the way.
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  Speaker 2: You're looking for an opening act.
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  Speaker 1: I am, yeah. Yeah, really excited about that. Something we've
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  Speaker 1: done for the last couple of tours while I've been
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  Speaker 1: over there. And yeah, something I always like to do.
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  Speaker 1: It's always a bit of fun. So yeah, it should
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  Speaker 1: be nice.
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  Speaker 2: Let me quickly go through it. So the tour, which
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  Speaker 2: is going to be, how did we get here? Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's kicking off in a couple of weeks. Uh, you're
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  Speaker 2: looking for an Aussie band or, or solo artist.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Either or to open up in, uh, each of, uh, Melbourne,
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  Speaker 2: Sydney and Brisbane. Now this bunch of aspiring musicians who
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  Speaker 2: are listening right now, who are like, Oh my God, shit,
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  Speaker 2: this is my chance. This is my, this is my moment.
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  Speaker 2: What are you looking for? What do you want?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I'd like, you know, I,
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  Speaker 1: I've got my own festival. So it reminds me of, uh,
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  Speaker 1: similar to that. I mean, what would, what I'm looking for?
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  Speaker 1: Just someone who's fun. Who's going to, who's going to
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  Speaker 1: be brave and put on a good fun live show. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but also, you know, from a point of like artistry,
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  Speaker 1: someone who's a little bit different, a little bit interesting. Yeah. Um,
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  Speaker 1: that's always fun for me to kind of watch, you know,
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  Speaker 1: stuff that maybe isn't as down the middle. And so
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  Speaker 1: then a little bit more alternative, watch my fans reaction
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  Speaker 1: to that sort of stuff. So, uh, Yeah, I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: to see what it is. Nice.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but if I was you,
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  Speaker 2: you want to look for someone who's good, but not
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  Speaker 2: too good because you're the main act, right? Like everyone's
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  Speaker 2: here to see me. So be good, but don't be
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  Speaker 2: too good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a good support or warm them up though, lad.
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  Speaker 1: That would be good for me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, true, true, true, true. while we're talking about what
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  Speaker 2: you're looking for for re uh uh like a support
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  Speaker 2: act i guess you know as someone who's got a
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  Speaker 2: as a career artist like yourself what's your big advice
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  Speaker 2: to a young developing artist or someone who's trying to
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  Speaker 2: have a crack for the first time i think i.
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  Speaker 1: Think you know when you're at the start of your
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  Speaker 1: career um it can sometimes be quite challenging to say
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  Speaker 1: no especially you know when there's people around you who
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  Speaker 1: maybe have opinions and might be encouraging you to encouraging
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  Speaker 1: you to do a certain kind of thing or kind
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  Speaker 1: of music or whatever. I think at that stage, it's
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  Speaker 1: mostly important of just really kind of being brave and
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  Speaker 1: kind of stick to who you are as an artist
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  Speaker 1: and as a person. Because everyone's just trying to guess right, really,
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  Speaker 1: in that situation. So I think you know yourself best.
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  Speaker 1: And I think, yeah, being brave, put yourself front and
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  Speaker 1: center and be original.
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  Speaker 2: No, I like that. Because there is only one you.
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  Speaker 2: Am I right? Like you can't be someone else. There's
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  Speaker 2: only you, right? There's only one version in the world
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  Speaker 2: of you. And that's what makes you different to everybody else.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely that, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But I guess also too, like, I don't know about you,
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  Speaker 2: but sometimes I shit myself. I'm like, am I worthy? Like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like when you're trying to break through, you're like,
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  Speaker 2: hang on, am I good enough? Do you want me
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  Speaker 2: or do you want another version of me? Because everyone,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, has that imposter syndrome a little bit into
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  Speaker 2: your song.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. And again, yeah, I think it's just about
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  Speaker 1: being brave. You know, when you are inexperienced, there's many
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  Speaker 1: experienced people around you telling you what you should do.
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  Speaker 1: Just trust in your own gut.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. Hey, how was your summer? What did you
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  Speaker 2: get up to? Did you do anything fun?
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  Speaker 1: Summer was good, yeah. Mostly touring. I think that for
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  Speaker 1: the last, like, three or four weeks, I've just been
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  Speaker 1: chilling out, to be honest. I've been kind of taking
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  Speaker 1: some time post that part of the tour, which was nice.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: So it was great throughout the summer. You know, as
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  Speaker 1: I always say, it's one of my favourite things to do.
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  Speaker 1: So really love those shows, really cherish them. But excited
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  Speaker 1: for us now, man. Really, really excited.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, can I just quickly say, I'm not sure where
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  Speaker 2: you are, but that backyard is spectacular.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd love to take claim. I'm actually at a rental,
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  Speaker 1: but it's posh in there.
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  Speaker 2: It is the poshest backyard. I was about to say,
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  Speaker 2: has Louis Tomlinson got a green thumb, and has he
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  Speaker 2: been doing that himself? That is very nice. I see
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  Speaker 2: how it is. That's a very nice rental you've got there.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Hey, while I've got you, can we feed the
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  Speaker 2: fans a little bit? Because I see you on TikTok
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  Speaker 2: feeding the fans. So I think it's only.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I never thought I'd be a TikToker, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but here I am.
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  Speaker 2: What happened to you? Is it one of those things
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  Speaker 2: where you do it one time and then before you
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  Speaker 2: know it, it's like four hours have gone past and
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  Speaker 2: you're like scrolling aimlessly and you're like, damn.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It was like one of those things that like
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  Speaker 1: I was trying to deny for the longest time. It
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  Speaker 1: just kept getting bigger and bigger. And then, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it gets to a point where you just look stupid
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  Speaker 1: for not being on it. So I think I got
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  Speaker 1: to that kind of territory. Would I say it's fun?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. It feels like a
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  Speaker 1: whole different world, that TikTok shit, to be fair. But
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  Speaker 1: it keeps the fans entertained, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Well, let me quickly, I've got to ask about you.
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  Speaker 2: Back in July, the 1D16 year anniversary happened, and you
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  Speaker 2: went on a full ham, complete breakdown of the One
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  Speaker 2: Direction Greatest Hits. And I don't know if you've spoken
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  Speaker 2: about this.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the most I've ever posted on social
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  Speaker 1: media in one day ever, to be fair.
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  Speaker 2: Your story, it's just line, line, line, line, line, line, line.
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  Speaker 2: It's like either he was very bored or he got
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  Speaker 2: into a real rhythm here and thought, I'm just going
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  Speaker 2: to go for days. Questions for you, including but not
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  Speaker 2: limited to Infinity. You alluded– okay. You asked the question, did.
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  Speaker 1: We make a video clip for this?
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  Speaker 2: Full world, mate, full world. You made a video clip
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  Speaker 2: for that song, right?
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  Speaker 1: We did, actually, yeah. Yeah, it turns out we did, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I actually spoke to the director who did that after
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  Speaker 1: I spoke about that just to confirm. And, yeah, there
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  Speaker 1: is something out there. There is something out there.
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  Speaker 2: Because I heard the story was, and the only reason
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  Speaker 2: anyone knows that a video clip for that song was
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  Speaker 2: ever made was that a girl broke into the soundstage
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  Speaker 2: and filmed you And then she leaked that on the internet,
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  Speaker 2: but then no one ever saw the video.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Okay. That's how people know. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What about this one? Na, na, na, na, na from
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  Speaker 2: the Up All Night album, peak lyricism. There was some
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  Speaker 2: quality words there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Listen, there is genuinely some good lyrics across
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  Speaker 1: some of our songs. That's just not one of them.
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  Speaker 1: That is that.
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  Speaker 2: Did you, did you enjoy, did you listen to, sorry,
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  Speaker 2: did you listen to every record in full or did
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  Speaker 2: you just go through and pick some tracks?
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  Speaker 1: Um, no, I think I'm pretty, do you know what's funny?
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  Speaker 1: And this feels like I've really got it in for
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  Speaker 1: this song. I've been speaking bad about it recently, but
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  Speaker 1: I think the only song I didn't listen to is
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  Speaker 1: what makes you beautiful only because I've heard it so
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  Speaker 1: many times, you know? Uh, but no, I listen, I
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  Speaker 1: listen fully top to bottom and it's been, it's been
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  Speaker 1: years since I've done anything like that. So, I woke up,
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  Speaker 1: I felt like a good time to kind of celebrate.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't realise until the day that I'd woken up
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  Speaker 1: that it was an anniversary. And then I just thought,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm fully in mood for it. So literally
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  Speaker 1: all day, the band, everyone I worked with, they had
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  Speaker 1: to listen to One Direction for like four hours straight.
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  Speaker 2: I was loving it. Because I would imagine, though, when
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  Speaker 2: you're living it, right, you would have forgotten a whole
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  Speaker 2: bunch of the stuff that happened because it was just
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  Speaker 2: pandemonium crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, definitely, yeah. Some of those songs that I literally, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: if I hadn't heard them, like, recently, I'd completely forgot
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  Speaker 1: they'd existed, to be honest. So, yeah, it was cool.
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  Speaker 1: It was nice.
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  Speaker 2: Did the words come back to you or you were like,
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  Speaker 2: I do not know what happens next year? Like, I
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  Speaker 2: would have to have a lyric sheet if I was
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  Speaker 2: to ever sing it again.
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  Speaker 1: Bit of both, bit of both. Yeah, some that would
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  Speaker 1: kind of catch me by surprise that I still know
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  Speaker 1: the words and others that I literally would never be
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  Speaker 1: able to sing it again unless I had lyrics in
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  Speaker 1: front of me. But I've got a few of the
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  Speaker 1: songs I had to sing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we are very much looking forward to having you here.
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  Speaker 2: It's only a couple of weeks away now. we're looking
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  Speaker 2: for an Aussie act to support you, a different one
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  Speaker 2: for Melbourne, a different one for Sydney, a different one
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  Speaker 2: for Brisbane. This is your chance to shine. It's not
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  Speaker 2: very often you get like a hyper, hugely passionate fan base.
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  Speaker 2: Together in one place, some Aussie artist listening right now
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  Speaker 2: will be able to ride your coattails to success and fame.
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  Speaker 2: Good on them, and they can go and enter right now, yes?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I'm excited.
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