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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why Both Kevin Parker and Jennie Actually Dread Releasing Music · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Tame Impulse, Kevin Parker and Jenny have a couple of
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  Speaker 2: things in common. First and foremost, a hit song in
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  Speaker 2: their remix collaboration, Dracula. But they also share something a
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  Speaker 2: bit less enviable, high stress whenever they release music.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you might imagine dropping a new single is mostly
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  Speaker 3: exciting and celebratory for an artist, but Kevin and Jenny
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  Speaker 3: both agree. In a joint conversation for Rolling Stone, release
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  Speaker 3: day is much more torturous than fun.
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  Speaker 1: Jenny says that it's not that she's not happy and grateful,
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  Speaker 1: but the pressure is overwhelming. And she wishes that she
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  Speaker 1: could just embrace the moment like their mutual friend Duleepa
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  Speaker 1: seems to do effortlessly.
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  Speaker 2: Kevin is a notorious workaholic and produces his own music,
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  Speaker 2: often alone, spending months tweaking and reworking it. So that
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  Speaker 2: day a song goes from being all his to the
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  Speaker 2: property of the world. And a judgmental world feels violently
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  Speaker 2: emotional and mentally, too, leaving him deeply vulnerable, he says.
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  Speaker 3: Well, music means so much to so many people who
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  Speaker 3: can also be so insanely harsh online if a song
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  Speaker 3: doesn't live up to their expectations.
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  Speaker 2: And we forget these songs, fans love or hate, and
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  Speaker 2: they are the artist's babies. So no surprise the release
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  Speaker 2: date can be stressful. Dracula Course out.
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  Speaker 3: That's direct from Hollywood.