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💃 Rogue Traders on working on new hit with Dannii Minogue... · KIIS Breakfast

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  Speaker 1: This is Kiss Breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: Dirty Dirty Disco, the brand new single from the Rogue
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  Speaker 2: Traders and Danny Minogue.
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  Speaker 1: It's out today. The Rogue Traders are joining us here.
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  Speaker 2: We've got James, we've got Natalie Basingth-Wade.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Morning.
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  Speaker 4: What's up, what's up?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Nat, last time we had you on the show, Nat,
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  Speaker 2: you were on Zoom and you got random calls from
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  Speaker 2: our listeners asking you for parents' advice.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Clearly like the ultimate parent.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously, you get it.
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  Speaker 3: That's why. Yeah, I'm not even sure if we're allowed
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  Speaker 3: to say what we were talking about, are we?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think she was asking me advice on wet
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  Speaker 3: dreams and I'm like, oh.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh, for her son.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, when I think of Nat Passingway, I don't think, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to ask her about wet dreams and my son.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the last thing that.
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  Speaker 1: Comes to my mind. It was really random.
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  Speaker 2: We were like, call it if you want to ask
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  Speaker 2: Nat Pass anything and she wanted to know about her
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  Speaker 2: son's wet dreams.
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  Speaker 3: How do I handle this? And over to you. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are celebrating your 21st anniversary this year. Congratulations.
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  Speaker 5: It sounds like a marriage, doesn't it? 21 years of marriage.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: We are. And it's so fun.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: We feel like we're 21. We still feel really silly,
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  Speaker 5: but now we're kind of old enough to sort of
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  Speaker 5: do what we want.
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  Speaker 4: At the same time.
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  Speaker 3: You're kind of like performing without any inhibitions, right?
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  Speaker 1: So true.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So true.
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  Speaker 3: And what's it like performing to a– fans in 2026.
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  Speaker 3: Is it different?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly the same?
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  Speaker 3: It's actually so strange because we have the weirdest demographic, right?
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  Speaker 3: So when Voodoo Child came out in 2005.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Like 25-year-olds, 30-year-olds. But then those people who had kids were, like,
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  Speaker 3: jamming to Voodoo Child. Yes. So now their kids are
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  Speaker 3: their age.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, they're coming.
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  Speaker 3: And they're, like, 20 years older.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a very mixed bunch.
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  Speaker 3: We have, like, 20 right through to, like, 60.
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  Speaker 1: You've got a huge demographic. That's right. It's amazing.
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  Speaker 5: It's really broad.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty fun.
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  Speaker 1: And, James, of course, you started the Rogue Traders.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But we know Singer to begin with, and then you
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  Speaker 2: found Nat Bass.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: How did you guys meet? That's right. Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 3: Well, well, well.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It all happened 21 years ago pretty much.
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  Speaker 1: Were you doing Neighbours then?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 4: You were on Neighbours when I met you.
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  Speaker 3: I was, that's right, and I auditioned. But then I
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  Speaker 3: got the job.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, and then I got to be an extra on Neighbours.
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  Speaker 4: Did you? Well, like a fair exchange to me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a good exchange. That was the deal.
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  Speaker 4: I know, I did. I was so excited.
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  Speaker 1: And my mum did too.
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  Speaker 5: My mum, who's like the, you know, she's English and
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  Speaker 5: she's the biggest Pummy Neighbours fan.
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  Speaker 4: She was made up for years.
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  Speaker 3: But we kept my identity secret so that it wasn't
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  Speaker 3: about Neighbours and Rogue Traders.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The single became really successful without... a profiled person on it,
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  Speaker 3: which we're both really proud of that. And that was
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  Speaker 3: really intentional from our part.
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  Speaker 1: So people didn't know it was you?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: It's just your vocals.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I had a black wig on in the video clip,
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  Speaker 3: so you don't really recognise me. And we never went
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  Speaker 3: out and pitched it as that because we wanted the
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  Speaker 3: music to speak for itself. You don't love it or
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  Speaker 3: hate it just because of the track. Yeah, that's really cool.
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  Speaker 5: And then we did that bit of the arias where
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  Speaker 5: Nat had the black wig and then she ripped it
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  Speaker 5: off to show these beautiful blonde locks that you can
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  Speaker 5: see right now. And, yeah, that became the moment. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know really. You know what they say, you know,
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  Speaker 5: the days are long but the weeks fly by.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the days are long but the years are flying.
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  Speaker 1: And 21 years. So have you stayed together the whole
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  Speaker 1: time or have you taken breaks?
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  Speaker 4: No, we had breaks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we did for a bit there.
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  Speaker 4: For about five years?
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  Speaker 3: Five years.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you did your own music, didn't you, Nat?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, did my own music.
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  Speaker 1: But you're definitely together. If someone says are the Rogue
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  Speaker 1: Traders together, you're together.
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  Speaker 3: We were destined to come back to it. There's no,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we got asked to do a gig and
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  Speaker 3: we were like, okay. And then we did it. And
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  Speaker 3: after that gig, we were like, this is, it's too
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  Speaker 3: much fun. And, People love it more than what we
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  Speaker 3: even imagined they would. Like they're singing all the songs.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think we had how many top ten
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  Speaker 3: hits or something?
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  Speaker 2: Seven.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, like a lot. And so you forget.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: You forget. But I feel like all of the old songs,
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  Speaker 3: like they say like everything that was old is now
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  Speaker 3: new again. Like everything's having like a resurgence and everything
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  Speaker 3: sounds new.
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  Speaker 1: Fresh and it's all exciting and.
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  Speaker 5: That's I guess that's always true you know I guess
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  Speaker 5: as an artist you just got sometimes you got to
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  Speaker 5: hang in there but also for us I think the
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  Speaker 5: key has been not holding on to the past yes
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  Speaker 5: and yes you got to honor those songs and when
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  Speaker 5: we perform live we go out there and of course
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  Speaker 5: we do Voodoo Child and all the big ones that
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  Speaker 5: people know us for. But for us, it feels great
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  Speaker 5: to also just make new music that.
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  Speaker 4: Makes us excited.
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  Speaker 5: And I know that we know very well the fans
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  Speaker 5: want to hear those moments. But for us as well,
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  Speaker 5: it really keeps us exciting to make new tunes.
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  Speaker 1: Dirty Dirty Disco comes out today.
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  Speaker 4: Right now.
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  Speaker 1: How was it doing a song with Danny Minogue?
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  Speaker 3: It was next level. Yeah. Like we kept... Because I
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  Speaker 3: know Dani. We've been friends for a long time. We
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  Speaker 3: did X Factor together a million years ago.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, of course. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But it's still a pinch me moment. I think we
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  Speaker 3: were like, this is iconic. And Dani was the person
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  Speaker 3: that we knew we wanted on this track. We didn't
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  Speaker 3: go to anyone else. We were like, we sent it
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  Speaker 3: to her. Oh, that's cool. I said, do you, what
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  Speaker 3: do you think? And she wrote, oh my God, in
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  Speaker 3: capital letters, this is fab. And then we just started
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  Speaker 3: talking and it was just, and she has been, All
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  Speaker 3: of us have been so involved in the creation. James
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  Speaker 3: over here directed the video clip, coming up with concepts.
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  Speaker 3: Danny and I are like heavily involved with the fashion
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  Speaker 3: and what are we wearing. So it's been unreal.
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  Speaker 1: Well, good on you guys. And it's great that we're
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  Speaker 1: still going 21 years later.
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  Speaker 4: We feel like we're just kicking it off right now.
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  Speaker 3: You are. It's actually true.
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  Speaker 4: That's what it feels like.
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  Speaker 5: And this track also feels like such a blend of,
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  Speaker 5: you know, Danny's dance kind of heritage, which he's really
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  Speaker 5: known for, and the kind of rogues grit that we
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  Speaker 5: have with the guitars. It's a dance track, but there's
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  Speaker 5: guitars in it. And it just feels right.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait to see the film clip.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: The girls deliver.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Believe me.
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  Speaker 3: Big slay.
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  Speaker 1: That was a fun day.
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  Speaker 3: I bet it was.
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  Speaker 2: Dirty Dirty Disco, the brand new single from the Rogue
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  Speaker 2: Traders and Danny Minogue.
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  Speaker 1: It is out today. Thank you for coming in. The
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  Speaker 1: Rogue Traders.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, guys.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks so much.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for coming in.