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INTERVIEW: CLARA THIO · 987 The Shock Circuit

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  Speaker 1: Now, I asked Joakim this question earlier and I asked him,
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever imagined like your favorite singer or band
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  Speaker 1: just showing up, um, for at your house to perform?
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever thought about that before? OK, come, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Sam Willows, let's do it. I mean that one Ben
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  Speaker 1: King might show up at your house anytime. That's, that's
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  Speaker 1: still OK, right? No, but I was gonna say, so
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  Speaker 1: whenever I see this girl's videos on TikTok, I made
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  Speaker 1: it a point to have her on my radar for
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  Speaker 1: when she puts out her own single, and then I'll say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's bring on 987 to have you sing it.
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  Speaker 1: But then every National Day, at least the last two years, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: whenever she puts out like a melody or her own
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  Speaker 1: song for National Day, I get tagged in the video saying, hey, Joakim, uh,
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  Speaker 1: get her to sing the theme song like as if
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  Speaker 1: I'm the power that be. But you know what, she's
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  Speaker 1: won the lottery this year.
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  Speaker 1: In more ways than one, maybe not just yet when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to the nation's song that could be in
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  Speaker 1: the future, but Rex Orange County actually went down to
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  Speaker 1: her house and performed there for a, for a house gig,
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  Speaker 1: home gig, whatever you want to say. Please say hi
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  Speaker 1: to Clara.
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  Speaker 2: Good
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  Speaker 2: morning. Morning,
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  Speaker 1: Clara. Seriously, you're, you're holding the guitar right now signed
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  Speaker 1: by Rex Orange County. Take us through the beginning. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we know that when it comes to Rex Orange County,
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  Speaker 1: he's quite spontaneous and he likes to do these random
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  Speaker 1: pop-ups without telling anyone. How did this even transpire?
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  Speaker 2: This transpired through like an email, but I thought it
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  Speaker 2: was a scam.
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  Speaker 2: Because it was a super SARS email. It was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: we saw your TikTok and we wanna get Rex Orange
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  Speaker 2: County to come to your house. Oh my God. And
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  Speaker 2: then they just tagged their official account, and I was like, uh,
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  Speaker 2: is this a scam? Then after that, I went to
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  Speaker 2: his main page and I saw that he actually went
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  Speaker 2: to other people's house and it was like live at
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  Speaker 2: like their names and everything. And I was like, oh
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  Speaker 2: my gosh, this is unreal.
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  Speaker 1: But you
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  Speaker 1: can never be too careful, I guess, when you saw that.
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  Speaker 1: So how did you respond? Did you like scream and
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  Speaker 1: go and tell your family first or what? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: my brother was like right next to me. Oh, OK,
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  Speaker 2: missing information. Before this, he liked my TikTok. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's the first. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the first sign
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  Speaker 2: and I was super excited. I was like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 2: he liked my TikTok I like me saying, oh, Orange County.
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  Speaker 2: Come back to Singapore again, because previously I missed his concert.
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  Speaker 2: So like, this was super like exciting. I thought he
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  Speaker 2: was actually coming back. I mean he did kind of
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  Speaker 2: come back in a way
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  Speaker 1: for to meet you. I would say. So when you
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  Speaker 1: told your family that mom, dad, Rex Orange County is
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  Speaker 1: coming to our place, did your mom go all Asian
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  Speaker 1: mom saying, I, the house is so messy, must clean
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  Speaker 1: now and all that? Did
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  Speaker 1: she say, Who's that? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: she said, Who's that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, who is this even? Then me and my
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  Speaker 2: brother was like, you don't get it. It's like it's
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  Speaker 2: a big deal. Yeah, it's like a super big deal.
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  Speaker 2: But most of my family didn't know him except for
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  Speaker 2: me and my brother.
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  Speaker 1: So
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  Speaker 1: you said, Mummy, mommy, um, do you think we can
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  Speaker 1: make the, make him some food or
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  Speaker 2: yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what was done
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  Speaker 1: like actually to prep,
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  Speaker 2: to prep for him? like I think he spent like
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  Speaker 2: $300 to like, like.
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  Speaker 2: Put all the food we bought like Mr. Coconut shakes
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  Speaker 2: we bought like satay, you know, when Rex Orange County
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  Speaker 2: when we gave him the food, he was like, Oh, satay.
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  Speaker 2: Then we were like that was super funny.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's cute. Yeah, yeah. We prepared for him like
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  Speaker 2: uh chicken rice, um, shepherd's pie, chicken pie from my
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  Speaker 2: like mom's local like business with my grandparents. He loved
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  Speaker 2: that also, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And that was 300
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  Speaker 1: dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think like, OK, yeah, it was like a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Orange County aside, look, when it comes to you as
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  Speaker 1: an individual, we've seen your videos, by the way, we love,
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  Speaker 1: we love how you're singing and just, you know, crashing
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  Speaker 1: out first and then going into a very nice song
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  Speaker 1: to surprise all of us on TikTok. How did this
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  Speaker 1: love for singing come about? And tell us more about yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Were you always the performer like back in primary and
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  Speaker 1: secondary school? Did they say, Clara, go and sing, go
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  Speaker 1: and sing, and you actually did it.
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  Speaker 2: Um, I think I first had my love for music
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  Speaker 2: because I served in like my church, my church worship.
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  Speaker 2: That's how like I started like singing at all. Then
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  Speaker 2: like from there I learned from like my grandparents. My
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  Speaker 2: grandparents are like super musically inclined. They met through like
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  Speaker 2: a choir because my grandpa was the opera singer and
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  Speaker 2: my grandma was the pianist is so cool. Yeah, so crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you have this.
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  Speaker 1: How old are you this year? Like what,
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  Speaker 2: 18,
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  Speaker 1: 17. OK, you're not even turning 18 just yet. You
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  Speaker 1: already have this like raspy quality of your voice that I,
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  Speaker 1: I love so much. I love it so much. And
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  Speaker 1: it's already almost like you're naturally blessed with this quality
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  Speaker 1: of voice. Did it take someone to tell you like, hey, Clara,
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  Speaker 1: I actually got a good voice?
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  Speaker 2: Oh,
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  Speaker 1: your brother
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  Speaker 2: was the one.
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  Speaker 1: Oh,
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  Speaker 2: sweet. And my brother asked me to go post. That's
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  Speaker 2: like he's my, like,
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  Speaker 1: future artist manager.
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  Speaker 2: He's the,
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  Speaker 1: he's the funniest to your Billie Eilish.
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  Speaker 2: For real,
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  Speaker 1: for real. OK, so, um, now that you know, you,
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  Speaker 1: you've calmed down about the experience, Rex Storage County being
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  Speaker 1: in your house and all that, during the process of
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  Speaker 1: filming and like doing the whole performance and everything, what
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  Speaker 1: was going through your mind in that moment? When
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  Speaker 2: he
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  Speaker 2: was performing? It was just like so surreal. I was like,
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  Speaker 2: oh my goodness, he's performing in front of me. Then
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  Speaker 2: we were like, super like.
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  Speaker 2: Just mind blown. Like, OK, I don't know about my family.
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  Speaker 2: My family just was like, yeah, but me and my brother,
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  Speaker 2: we were like, yeah, it was crazy. But you,
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  Speaker 1: you sang for him as well.
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  Speaker 2: Did you, did you? He asked me to sing with
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  Speaker 2: him actually. He heard me singing with him like, like
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  Speaker 2: from the previous song. He helped me harmonizing and then
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  Speaker 2: he was like.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, I know you sing and I heard you have covers, like,
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  Speaker 2: so why don't we do a song right now? I
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  Speaker 2: was like, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: please.
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  Speaker 1: So now that, I mean, obviously that video absolutely blew up, um,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing with all the newfound followers and
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  Speaker 1: like love for you right now on social media? Like,
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  Speaker 1: are you handling it OK?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm handling it like it's like crazy because like
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean? What do you mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's super crazy.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, when we come back after a short break,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna hear Clara sing live on 987. Mic is on,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, so if you want to really go
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  Speaker 1: and find out, can this girl sing, join us live
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  Speaker 1: on TikTok to watch her do it live as well. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and this is where there are no theatrics about this.
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  Speaker 1: She's literally here with her guitar. We did a sound
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  Speaker 1: check earlier. We plugged in.
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  Speaker 1: All that and more coming up next. Anyway, we are
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  Speaker 1: still back here with Clara. If you are live with
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  Speaker 1: us on TikTok right now, you would know and maybe
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  Speaker 1: even recognize her. Rex Orange County literally showed up at
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  Speaker 1: her house, her family home, much to the shock and
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  Speaker 1: surprise of everyone, including yourself, and performed there, and she
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  Speaker 1: also managed to do a little bit of a performance.
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  Speaker 1: That and also not forgetting that Clara is an amazing singer.
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  Speaker 1: So what I'm gonna hear from you in a while
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  Speaker 1: here on 987?
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  Speaker 2: This is a song that Rex performed before he released
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  Speaker 2: it and it's called Indecision.
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  Speaker 1: OK.
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  Speaker 1: Alright. Yeah. Whenever you're ready, Clara, take it away.
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  Speaker 2: Let me know.
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  Speaker 2: Let me know
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  Speaker 2: Is it
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  Speaker 2: Time for me to go.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, what's up?
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  Speaker 2: this is
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  Speaker 2: If I leave for you
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  Speaker 2: That's OK
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  Speaker 2: living in
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  Speaker 2: Hanging on to feeling.
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  Speaker 2: In my re you, I can let them go. You
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  Speaker 2: said you'd be with me for a time.
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  Speaker 2: We were naive, we were young, we were green.
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  Speaker 2: is harder to believe. I find someone new.
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  Speaker 2: put up with me.
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  Speaker 2: You slip right through my finger.
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  Speaker 2: I have to sabotage.
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  Speaker 2: Me
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  Speaker 2: Is it getting to that time for me to go.
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  Speaker 2: I guess what's dope.
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  Speaker 2: If I leave you
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  Speaker 2: That, so keep on living.
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  Speaker 2: In
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: I should
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  Speaker 2: And.
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  Speaker 2: If you run off to be with
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  Speaker 1: Guys, guys, mic was on. Mike was live. She knew
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  Speaker 1: her mic was on. No auto-tune, no post-production. She did
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  Speaker 1: it live. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Clara.
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  Speaker 1: Beautiful. I could not tell that you were nervous. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you laughed here and there, but that's what I enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: about it because you looked like you were in the
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  Speaker 1: moment and you were enjoying yourself, you know, you're having fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You were, you were at that place. Clara, my, my,
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  Speaker 1: my last question to you is, please tell us you're
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  Speaker 1: writing your own songs, you have your own music coming
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  Speaker 1: out in the near future. Please say yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Soon, soon. OK.
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  Speaker 1: You know who to hit up. Like please just drop
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  Speaker 1: us a text and come back. You have us on
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  Speaker 1: DMs come back. Yeah. Yeah. Please, um, for those of
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  Speaker 1: you who have just joined us and you're wondering who
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  Speaker 1: is this one girl with a wonderful voice, can you
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  Speaker 1: please tell them where to follow you on all
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  Speaker 1: platforms?
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  Speaker 2: Um, Clara Teo, T H I O.
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  Speaker 1: That's it on all platforms. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: OK, not Facebook though. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We don't need Facebook anymore, remember the last time we
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  Speaker 1: opened that.