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Madison Beer Explains "Metaphorical" Meaning Behind New Album "Locket" · On Air with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: That is Forray. Where is my husband? One of two
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  Speaker 1: point seven? It's Kiss FM, Los Angeles. Very exciting global
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  Speaker 1: superstar is here, Madison Beer going, Madison Money. Thanks great
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  Speaker 1: to have you with us in the studio, and congratulations
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  Speaker 1: on so many things that are going on. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know where to start. Let's start by, I guess saying
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  Speaker 1: that your new album Market is out now, and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna play a bittersweet here in a second. You've been
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  Speaker 1: working for a long time. This is not something that's
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  Speaker 1: happened overnight for You've been working hard. What has been
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  Speaker 1: different or felt different for you this time? As it
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  Speaker 1: all seems to be settling in a really big and
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  Speaker 1: you said therapeutic way too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, thank you. I mean it's really an exciting
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  Speaker 2: time for me. I think you know, I, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: I've been doing this for a long time. For people
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  Speaker 2: who don't know, I got time when I was twelve
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  Speaker 2: and I'm twenty six now, so it's been a while. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it has not been overnight. And I think that that's
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  Speaker 2: honestly been such an amazing blessing disguise, and I think
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  Speaker 2: that it's given me a really great perspective and also
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  Speaker 2: appreciation for all of this stuff, and has also given
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  Speaker 2: me the opportunity to really grow my fan base, my community,
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  Speaker 2: and it feels like they're all on this journey with me.
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  Speaker 2: So it is really therapeutic and it's something I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I can enjoy even more so now than I
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  Speaker 2: would have, you know, maybe ten years ago.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, when it's in your DNA and you
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  Speaker 1: know you can do it, and you know you've got
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  Speaker 1: it as you're growing up. I mean twelve is very young,
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  Speaker 1: but like eighteen, nineteen twenty, you know you've got it,
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  Speaker 1: you know you can do it, you visualize it. It
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  Speaker 1: can be frustrating and it's it's hard to say that
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  Speaker 1: then you look back in hindsight and say it was
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  Speaker 1: a blessing, right, Yeah, Well, once you get there, it
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  Speaker 1: really is totally Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I was dropped from my record label when
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  Speaker 2: I was sixteen, and so it was something that I
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  Speaker 2: kind of had to pick myself up and be like, wait,
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  Speaker 2: am I not going to ever succeed and do all
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  Speaker 2: these things? And I think, like I said, it definitely
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  Speaker 2: reframed my perspective and also kind of reframed what I
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  Speaker 2: think successes. And I think that That's a really exciting
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  Speaker 2: thing because now I can enjoy, you know, talking to
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  Speaker 2: you and being at these stations and having people you know,
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  Speaker 2: it feels like kind of pay attention now. But I
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  Speaker 2: think I'm the most grateful for like my fans and
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  Speaker 2: the people who have really stuck with me through it all.
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  Speaker 2: So it's for all of it. It makes it better,
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  Speaker 2: it makes it more fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, let's talk about the concept locket. From what
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  Speaker 1: I read and understand, you thought about this as the
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  Speaker 1: lens through which to look for the album first. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And what was the idea behind it when you first
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  Speaker 1: started to think about it being locket the album?
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, it was just a word. It sounds stupid, but
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  Speaker 2: I really just liked that word, and I thought it
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  Speaker 2: just kind of embodied. It felt feminine, it felt vintage,
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  Speaker 2: It felt like something that obviously is metaphorical, like you
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  Speaker 2: can hold memories in it or keepsakes. And then that
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  Speaker 2: kind of just snowballed into what I felt like the
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  Speaker 2: album was about. But it wasn't like I went into
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  Speaker 2: it with this concept and I was like, Oh, I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna write things that are memories that fit in my locket.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of just loved the word, and then it
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  Speaker 2: just all developed naturally. And it also kind of made
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  Speaker 2: sense for me because I feel like I've spoken about
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  Speaker 2: albums and psych goals and eras and whatnot, and sometimes
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  Speaker 2: it feels like you release something and then you kind
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  Speaker 2: of put it on a shelf and you move on
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  Speaker 2: from it, but it always is part of you and exists,
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  Speaker 2: and so I feel like a lockett is that literal
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  Speaker 2: item that now I can keep my past albums in
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  Speaker 2: my experiences and also this this new project. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: honestly it was just a word, though it wasn't really
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't really a concept, and then it just all
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  Speaker 2: I feel like, hopefully makes sense upon.
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  Speaker 1: This each song in its own locket and you're in
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  Speaker 1: your mind, I think.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, they all feel like like important memories and moments.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I've had conversations with people about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's this is a breakup album and it's it's emotional
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  Speaker 2: and is it up and down and whatnot, And people
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  Speaker 2: are like, is it hard to release songs that you
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  Speaker 2: know you might not feel that same way now that
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  Speaker 2: you did when you record them. But I think that's
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  Speaker 2: the perfect thing for a locket. You know it's it's
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  Speaker 2: a part of me and that shaped me and whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: So now is there a symbolic lockett that had two
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  Speaker 1: faces in it that you cut one of the faces
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  Speaker 1: out of.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, my locketts really have like my cats in them,
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  Speaker 2: so they're in there.
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  Speaker 1: There's no two faces in your locket now, no, no
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  Speaker 1: two faces.
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  Speaker 2: Just what are the cat stands? I'm so glad you
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  Speaker 2: asked Mooki and maple. Oh, yes, I found I found
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  Speaker 2: Mooky on the on the side of the road the
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  Speaker 2: night the Dodgers won the World Series. I love and
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  Speaker 2: she also looks kind of like a cow like. Her
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  Speaker 2: print is cow like, So MOOKI moo.
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  Speaker 1: It all works, all right, Madison, Beer's here, Let's take
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  Speaker 1: a break, let's come back, Let's play some music. One
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  Speaker 1: or two point seven Kiss FM about to pay another
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  Speaker 1: bill as well, one thousand dollars for you. Next it
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  Speaker 1: is kiss FM. I mean, that is the sound if
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  Speaker 1: somebody has been doing it for a long time, but
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  Speaker 1: it's still so fresh and we love it. I to
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  Speaker 1: you was singing it off key beyond off key? Did
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  Speaker 1: she hear her? Sorry? I'm so sorry. So all right,
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  Speaker 1: now when you listen to your song like that you
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  Speaker 1: hear it, are your be a car uber whatever?
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  Speaker 2: And it comes I was in the car last night
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  Speaker 2: and it came on what Runs What Runs through You? Like,
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  Speaker 2: what do you feel? Okay? So first thing I feel
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  Speaker 2: is my phone must be plugged in and I must
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  Speaker 2: be playing this on my phone. And like, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: even joking. We got in the car last night and
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  Speaker 2: we turned the car on and I just hear a
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  Speaker 2: bittersweet and I'm like, oh, my phone must be plugged in.
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  Speaker 2: And then I see like one or two seven Kiss
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  Speaker 2: FM is playing it. And then afterwards they're like, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know who said it, but someone was like, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we got Madison beer on here, and then
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  Speaker 2: I realized it was on the radio. But genuinely, the
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  Speaker 2: first thing I do is check to see if it's
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  Speaker 2: playing for my OX. When I realize it's not, it's
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  Speaker 2: so exciting. It's so cool to just I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It also always feels very like nothing feels like a
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  Speaker 2: coincidence because I would have had to get in the
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  Speaker 2: car at that perfect moment and catch it. It's what
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  Speaker 2: only three minutes long, So it always feels like a
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  Speaker 2: sign that I'm hopefully on the right track and it's
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  Speaker 2: it's very affirming and really that's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah that was Kayla. I think that was on e
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  Speaker 1: J or Kayla. I'm not quite sure. I was asleep.
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  Speaker 1: But when you think about the people that have responded,
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  Speaker 1: reacted and felt something from your song, that to me
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  Speaker 1: must be the magic. People who you don't know, you've
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  Speaker 1: never met, Yeah, you may never meet them. They are moved,
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  Speaker 1: it resonates, they feel something, they relate that to me
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  Speaker 1: must be some incredible, superpower magic feelings.
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  Speaker 2: It's the best thing ever. I think music is obviously
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  Speaker 2: such a universal language and connecting with people through it
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  Speaker 2: is so special and amazing. And obviously you guys do
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  Speaker 2: this in your around music all day every day, and
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  Speaker 2: you can see how much impacts people and they get
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  Speaker 2: in their cars, they turn on the radio. It can
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  Speaker 2: change your whole day and turn your mood around. And
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  Speaker 2: I just think it's very powerful and I feel lucky
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  Speaker 2: to be in this industry and to do this. So, yeah, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know you exude gratefulness. You can feel your gratefulness in
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  Speaker 1: all of that. So Lockett is out now. Tickets to
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  Speaker 1: the Lockett Tour are on sale at ticketmaster dot com.
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  Speaker 1: What can you reveal about the Lockett tour.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's just gonna be so fun and if you're listening,
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  Speaker 2: I hope to see you there. And I don't honestly
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  Speaker 2: want to reveal too much, well partially because I don't
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  Speaker 2: have any idea what I'm going to be doing yet.
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  Speaker 2: Still working on all everything, but I don't know. I
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  Speaker 2: know that I'm going to obviously want to put on
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  Speaker 2: This is the biggest tour I've ever done, and I
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  Speaker 2: want to put on the best show possible. And I
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  Speaker 2: just want to share a night with people and dance
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  Speaker 2: around and have a good time. So that's that's at
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  Speaker 2: least what I could tell you. You can expect at the minimum.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty fourth is the key of form, so you'll see
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  Speaker 2: what comes to your fruation. Thank you so much for coming. Congratulations,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. I really appreciate it. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: I get this to you. Thank you.