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Hi, guys.

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Did anybody grow up in Boston?

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And if so, do y'all know, um, Magic 106.

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7?

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They, I don't know if they still do this,
they have Bedtime Magic, which is their

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evening radio show, um, And I think it's
a lead anchor or lead host was Delilah

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and she would be like this, but like up an
octave and a half and it'd be very quiet

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and it would be evening time stories.

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I don't know.

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I'm feeling a little quiet tonight,
maybe because it's like dark and quiet.

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Anyway, how y'all doing?

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Welcome back to Galt's radio and welcome
to another episode here of The Vocal.

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Tonight, I wanted to walk
through something that.

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It's kind of fun to talk about, which
is songwriters, um, and use a big

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diva that we all know, Miss Beyonce
Giselle Knowles Carter, uh, as an

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example of someone that obviously works
with many, many songwriters, um, and

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gives them, of course, credit, but
we'll talk a little bit about that.

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Um, but a lot of those, uh, songs that be
either purchases or she hears a demo and

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then she, Um, edits it a little bit and
then she kind of retools it for herself.

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A lot of those demos are actually
out there and they're still up on the

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internet and it's very cool to kind of
hear their initial form and then all

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the way through to the version that we
all know on one of the Beyonce albums.

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Now listen y'all, obviously
two things are true here.

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Number one being that Beyonce
works with legions of writers.

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If y'all have like read the blogs and the,
like just the press that comes out around

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each, um, each of her last, like maybe
four albums, she's kind of become infamous

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for these writing camps where she has.

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writers, um, some of whom we like
know as household ish names and

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some of whom we don't, um, come
to like some big rented mansion.

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I think the one big one that got kind
of known was like, I think it was like

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a mansion in the Hamptons for the self
titled album, uh, which came out in 2013.

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And they just write,
write, write, write, write.

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And they each take a room.

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She gets something with
like 20 rooms or something.

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And she has like a few production rooms
and then the writers go all over the house

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and they're writing, writing, writing.

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And then Beyonce just
like dips in and out.

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Um, so she's obviously
someone that has like.

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created a business forum around these
writing camps, which I think she actually

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plucked the idea of writing camps from
something that like labels used to do.

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And then Beyonce is
like, I'm my own label.

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Because at this point she
actually does own her own label.

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Um, so she does it just for herself.

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Um, so that's number one, obviously
this is a woman that works with.

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Lots and lots and lots of writers and
you know, not to discredit that part

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of Beyonce's artistry But the truth
is I don't think there's a single song

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out there that has a single name just
Beyonce Knowles Carter As its writer.

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I think she is always co writing She's
maybe starting the the work herself But

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then bringing someone else in at least one
other person to finesse it to work with

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her and to finish it Sometimes it's the
inverse where she hears something that

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already exists or is half done and then
she takes it and edits it These days,

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um, it's much more of like a sample game.

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And so if you look at the credits of
like the Renaissance album, there's like.

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You know, 10, 20 writers
on some of these songs.

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And then some of the writers that
you see listed, um, are the original

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writers of the original song that
Beyonce has decided to sample.

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So she purchased the rights to many,
many, many samples on Renaissance.

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It's almost like a sample circus in
a way of like compiling things from

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the past and making them new, which I
think is in the spirit of Renaissance.

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Uh, but then.

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The original writers of those tracks are
listed as the writers of the new song that

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then she is like writing on top of and
so if she's got the new writers and the

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old writers it can be dozens of writers.

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A lot of artists that are like
Beyonce get kind of criticized for

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this because it's seen as sometimes
as like Is this original or is this

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just like collage art of songwriting?

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And I think you could make
the argument for either.

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I see Beyonce as a performer, obviously
a singer, a dancer, someone that

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puts massive live shows together.

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Um, you know, a modern day
Michael Jackson, self proclaimed.

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Not necessarily do I
see her as a songwriter.

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But, um, you know, she's definitely put
the pen to the paper and she's definitely

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tried to get the story up there in some
of her documentaries that she's very

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much a part of the writing process.

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Uh, a story that I think has been made,
uh, that has made its way around maybe

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even just pop culture at this point, but
initially, uh, maybe just the industry

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before it kind of like leaked out,
especially these days as songwriters are

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talking about what they're making or not
making on these songs, is that someone

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like Beyonce gets to a certain level
of preeminence, basically pays for a

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song or like pulls writers into a room.

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And no matter how much she contributes,
she's basically getting top billing.

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So she's the lead.

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She's like getting the top line.

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She's the first writer in the sequence.

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Like if you were to go to Wikipedia
right now and look up all the songwriters

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B's number one, even if she only
did tiny little bit of the work.

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And there's this like turn of phrase
that's change a word, get a third,

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um, which used to mean something like
a big star will hear a demo basically

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fully baked or hear a song that
hasn't, doesn't even have a demo yet.

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Change one word.

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It could be like the gender of a
pronoun or something and then get.

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a third of the mechanical
rights or the publishing rights

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to that song as the writer.

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I think Beyonce is even beyond that.

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I think she's getting more than a third
for changing as little as a third.

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Um, but anyway, this is
in the spirit of fun.

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I obviously am a huge fan of Beyonce.

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I'm not here to like try to tear her
down or like make anything out of it, but

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But, um, I wanted to go through some of
her like middle albums where songwriting

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was kind of more of a focus as she was
becoming like the massive star that

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she is and pull some of the the song
references that do exist as demos out

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there from the artists that wrote them
and maybe even performed them or put

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them up as demos and show you how much
or in some cases how little changed um

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when Beyonce took them on as her own.

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All right we're gonna start with Beyonce's
third solo album I am slash Sasha Fierce

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and this song is on the I am side which
was basically like the ballad side I

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saw this album as having like kind of
fit be into the mold of like the Barbra

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Streisand it was a lot of like big ballads
kind of like hooks that were like meant

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to fill arenas a lot of like flowy gowns
with wind being pushed through them

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and she had like long hair and she was
just kind of like singing like it was

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really like a diva moment she obviously
did a lot of like dance tracks with the

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like two girls and the single ladies
of it all um but i remember this as

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her like i'm trying to be like to step
into my Like, Stand and Deliver, D.

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Va chapter.

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Um, this song is kind of a fun little,
like, party trivia, because I don't

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know if There's very, very few people
that know this original artist.

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He's very much from the, like,
mid 2000s, kind of like, sad boy

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with a guitar songwriter phase.

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So, kind of like You know, maybe the
Jason Mraz, the Gavin DeGraw, not that

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they're particularly sad, into the like,
the fray, like, that kind of era was

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his thing, his name was John McLaughlin,
or McLaughlin, I'm actually not 100

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percent sure how to pronounce that.

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I loved him, he's a really beautiful
songwriter and he has really lovely like,

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you know, maybe the, the right way to
categorize his chapter of like when he was

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out was like the Ingrid Michelson chapter.

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It was when Starbucks had
the albums at the counter.

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Do you know what I'm talking about?

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And it was like, sometimes they had the
Christmas albums or sometimes it was just

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like the Starbucks 20 and it was like
full coffee shop music, Portlandia phase.

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Like that's kind of his moment.

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But so the song smash into you, which
I, I swear to God, as soon as I say

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the title of this song, Beyonce's
Smash Into You, I'm like trying on

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clothes in like a Marshalls, like which
I haven't done in like 10, 15 years.

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But also like, it's kind of
like the analog to the songs

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that you only hear in CVS.

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Now like, I'm here defending it.

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I think this is a great song, but that's
kind of like the place that you're going.

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Like you're gonna maybe
hear this one in TJ Maxx.

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Um, the original song.

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is called Smack Into You.

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So in the spirit of change a word, get
a third, Beyoncé becomes songwriter

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on this song for having changed.

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I could count, I could rewind and count,
but it is maybe the same number of

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words as I have fingers on my left hand.

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So, you know, in the spirit of
songwriters do not always get the

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glory, this one is very much true.

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Now, y'all, if I play more than eight
recognizable seconds of a Beyonce song

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on and then post it to social media.

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It will be taken down.

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They know how to like protect her catalog.

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So I'm going to play like a wink and a nod
of her song and then I will play a little

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bit more of the songwriter song each time.

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So before I play, uh, smack
and smack slash smash into you.

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I think it's hilarious that B
did not like the word smack.

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The line is.

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I want to run smack into you smack is an
adverb in that line like I want to run

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full throttle into you it doesn't mean
physically smack you with my body into

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your body and I think she just thought
the word smash was more gentle but the

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word smash does in its place is it changes
the line to I want to run smash into you.

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That's not a that's not a phrase.

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I don't think that's a great edit
And I think it doesn't make as much

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sense like that's not an adage.

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It's not a turn of phrase So like
her version is really I want to run

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comma Parentheses but not sung and and
parentheses smash into you so I find

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hers Like more violent because she's
saying I want to run and smash into you.

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You know what I'm saying?

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So anyway, here's a little bit
of Beyonce's in case you've never

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heard this in case you've never,
you know Shopped in a store where

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this is playing in the changing room

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That's probably more than I'm gonna
get away with playing but also

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something that I will always hear
when I hear it when I listen to this

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song is that you can clearly hear an
edit between I want to run Smash Cut.

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Into you.

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Meaning, they've comped the vocals.

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It's not a perfect blend.

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I won't replay it just for risk of
like getting this video pulled down,

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but like, it's just kind of hilarious
that she was like, I like, I want

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to run, but then I like that smash,
you know, anything for the hit.

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Okay.

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So that's Beyonce's version,
which doesn't make as much.

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grammatical or syntactical sense and
here's John McLaughlin's version.

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It's literally the same key, it's the same
track, virtually nothing has been changed.

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Alright, so even if the word smack isn't
as like melodious, it makes literal sense.

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So B, I don't know, I don't know
about that edit, but maybe she just

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needed to edit something so that she
could become a writer because this is

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when she was like figuring that out.

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The one thing that she does add that I'm
like very into is of course a vocal run.

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That's Smack Slash Smashing to you.

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Y'all, your guess is as good as
mine as to why this camera just

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like blurs and then doesn't unblur.

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I'm trying to catch it as it's happening.

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I'm not doing the best job.

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I'm working on it.

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I'm gonna get a new camera at some point.

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Okay, now kind of like the magnum opus
of like, or like the thesis statement

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of this content would be the album.

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So Beyonce's fourth solo album.

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If you remember this album,
it was her return to R and B.

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It was a lot of like eighties
mixed in with like 2000s synth.

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And then lots of like really
like lots of melismas and runs

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and just big vocal moments.

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This was like her singer's album
with some eighties influences.

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It was like a little
Whitney Houston by Beyonce.

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Four is funny.

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So the reason it's funny is that
Four was very much Beyonce going out

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and like just buying stuff and then
like scooping it up, putting her

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vocal on it, and then there it goes.

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Or it's at least the one where we
can like really track her doing this.

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One of the producers, I don't know
if he was an executive producer or

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producer, um, but one of the folks that
she worked with was named Jeff Basker.

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And I looked up Jeff's
credits right before this.

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He worked with Kanye West.

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He worked with Bruno Mars.

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He worked with Harry Styles
and he did some work with.

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Fun.

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Remember the group Fun?

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That's Jeff Basker.

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He's a white dude in LA.

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He's a songwriter producer.

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He like produces songs that then he,
if he's releasing a demo or selling

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a demo, he sometimes sings them.

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So I have Y'all, I have
no idea how I found this.

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I found this probably 10 years ago.

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It defies research because, like,
there's nothing trackable about it.

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But, when, uh, Jeff had written a lot
of the songs, many of which Beyonce

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bought and put on 4, he released them
under a pseudonym as if he were his own

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artist, and maybe he does perform, um,
which That pseudonym was Billy Craven.

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He put them on a SoundCloud that you
can literally look up right now called

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Craven Works But please do not get it
taken down because this is like a fun

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thing that's on the internet that I don't
I like literally don't want people to

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know about and he put the demos of many
of the songs More than just the ones

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that landed on four up with his voice.

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Now, they're not like the most beautiful
listens This is a producer who does

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not necessarily identify as a singer.

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He's Probably just cutting the corner of
paying a session singer like, you know A

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thousand bucks or however much they get
paid to come in and sing these vocals.

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Um, so he's just like doing
it himself It's just like me.

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It's like there's
someone in his own house.

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Just like singing on top of the thing
So it's a stretch if he's writing

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for women or for higher tenors.

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His voice doesn't sound great on it.

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So like You know this isn't to
judge him for him not sounding like

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an amazing singer It's more just
that like I really thought that

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by this point in Beyonce's career.

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It was like More than just
purchasing a track singing on it

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like karaoke and releasing it.

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I thought it was like And maybe some of it
was, but it was like, in my mind, like a

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mind meld, like she's in the studio, she's
birthing these songs with these people.

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She's putting it all together with them.

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She's like in the trenches and
with the songs here, some from Jeff

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Basker, AKA Billy Craven, some from
others, like that's not the case.

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And it's just kind of like strange.

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So, all right, I'm going to play a
few songs from Jeff Basker's, uh,

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pseudonym SoundCloud from the album four.

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Oh my god, don't tell me
they've been taken down.

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I'm gonna be so sad I feel like there
were more and now i'm only seeing

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two songs okay, so One of the songs
is probably top five for me favorite

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beyonce vocal Moments like the my
favorite thing that she's performed

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on stage now the renaissance tour.

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She did it so much.

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It was every night That I kind of got
sick of seeing the videos of it and I

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feel like she's phoning it in now but
Really in a big way this song went from

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basically never being performed or being
known as a big hit on her set list In

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Homecoming, this song got its flowers
and then I think people really figured

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out, Oh my god, this is an amazing song.

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So Beyonce's version of
this song is called I Care.

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The version of the song that is on Jeff
Basker's SoundCloud is called Who Cares.

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So this is Who Cares.

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Same track.

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Same exact track.

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Same key.

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So already lyrical changes.

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She definitely changed this one.

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But the track's the same.

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Sounds like Bono there to me.

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Chorus.

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One of the coolest things that Beyonce,
Beyonce the vocalist does to this song,

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um, not just as a songwriter but as
a vocalist is adding some like crazy

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riffs in the bridge to the last chorus.

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But I'm not gonna play them.

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We know what those are.

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If you don't, go look it up
because, like, welcome to culture.

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Just kidding.

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Am I?

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Now, the second song, and the last
song, actually, in this SoundCloud

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collection that seems to be there
is Rather Die Young, which, y'all,

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I have to be honest, my friend Alec
knows, and we talk about 4 probably

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as much as we talk about anything.

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Um, This is not my fave and this is not my
this is not in the middle for me like this

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is in the bottom Of this album for me.

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That's just a that's got all day.

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Okay, that's just like how I feel But
this is rather die young the original demo

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So some like the gender flip, you
know This is like it just doesn't do

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anything for me of course is all right

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And I hear I'm like dancing

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So I just think it's interesting that it's
like, she doesn't even change the key.

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It's like, and maybe he wrote them
for women so she didn't, so she or

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whoever took them didn't need to.

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But like, it's literally just like, she's
like, I'll come do karaoke on this track.

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So those are two songs from
Four, um, by Jeff Basker.

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Okay, so that brings us to
the self titled of it all.

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Um, this was an album that I think
Beyonce actually openly talked about.

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The Writer's Camp that
we alluded to earlier.

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It's in this, she had
done a lot of, or she was.

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Starting to do her documentary
thing at this time.

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I think it's on YouTube.

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I forget which one this is.

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Maybe this is the HBO doc.

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She actually films them.

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So there are like videos of like all
the writers in this Big Hamptons house.

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She's going room to room
pairing writers with producers

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seeing what they come up with.

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Then she like lays it down
like she sings on it and then

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like moves to the next room.

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So you can actually go she's she's like
fully owned this Um and is like proud

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of it because it's like her conjuring
magic You know in in the like music

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cauldron with all of these artists Um,
the one that I want to focus on this

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was definitely someone that people
talked about as a known Contributor

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to, like, pop song writing for, like,
that whole chapter of, like, the mid

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late to, uh, 2010s, which is Sia.

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So Sia was in that writer's camp.

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I think she was also in, uh, trying to
write for what ended up being Lemonade,

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and I don't think any of it got taken.

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This was also when she was writing
for Adele and Rihanna, so she

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was, like, shipping songs out.

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Like, she was writing, putting songs
out, and then famously, like, All

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the ones that didn't get taken landed
on her album called This is Acting,

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where they were like demos that she
didn't intend to sing, but then ended

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up singing, um, which is her whole
story for how she became a pop icon.

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She was the demo singer for Um, Titanium,
I think, and if it wasn't Titanium, it was

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the one before that that I can't remember
and then the producer left her vocals on

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because they sounded better than whoever
was meant to be on it, and I think it

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was Katy Perry, and then she was like,
do I sue you or do I thank you for having

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like made me into a pop star when I was
trying to be behind the scenes, so anyway.

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Sia got involved in the writing process,
um, of Beyoncé's albums and others.

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Um, this one I think people kn I think
people know about both of these, but,

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um, one of them that didn't end up on the
album, but then was like, used for an H&

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M campaign, and then I think there's a
version of it on Spotify from the Deluxe

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album, um, which may have only been
uploaded recently, is Standing on the Sun.

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So if you don't know it, here's
a little bit of Beyoncé's.

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Alright, and now here's Sia's.

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This is just a little bit.

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Then, the one that did make it onto the
album, and I loved this because it was

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actually just incidentally one of my
favorites, is the first song, Pretty

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Hurts, which is, if you remember the
visual album, it was when Beyonce, she

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starts the whole album on this song,
and she's like in the room, dressed

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as like her young pageant self with
all the trophies, and I think she's

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like tearing the trophies off the
wall and saying pretty actually hurts.

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Um, so here's Beyonce's version.

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And here's Sia's version.

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Oh, funny, I didn't even know
she didn't sing the chorus.

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Alright, last one, and again, this
is by no means an exhaustive list.

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Um, this one's maybe my favorite.

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Um, this is the first song on
Beyonce's 2016 album, Lemonade.

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Y'all, I swear, as soon as I heard this
song, and I Very randomly, and luckily,

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watched the premiere of this live.

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Um, we didn't know what it was, and we
certainly didn't even know until like

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halfway through that it was an album,
but the first song, as soon as the chords

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started playing, she sings one line, I
was like, I bet Kevin Garrett wrote this.

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The only reason that that occurred to me
was because I was listening to a lot of

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this man Kevin Garrett at the time man,
I mean at the time he was like a kid, but

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um He's a songwriter and this kind of like
neo soul very very very ballad heavy Um

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kind of minimalist piano with voice and
I had been listening to he I don't even

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think he had a full album out At the time
he was just putting out eps and singles

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and I was really really into him I have
no idea how I found him Interesting if

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I could trace that but it just sounded
just like him and no one else had that

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sonic Thumbprint that Kevin had especially
with piano and Beyonce kept the piano in

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the track So I was like, I bet those are
literally Kevin's hands playing the piano.

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So anyway, shout out Kevin Garrett
You've had a really strong Flavor

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since the beginning and like the real
ones know Anyway, so Kevin's demo is

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actually just a live version on YouTube.

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It's beautiful So I'm gonna play
first a little bit of Beyonce's

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and then more of Kevin's.

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Here's Beyonce's

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The pray,

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pray to catch me.

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I don't dunno, I, you listen to
enough of this guy and you can

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like hear the way his fingers move
and like I can tell that's him.

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So anyway, here's Kevin
playing his own song.

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Pray You Catch Me.

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You can Tell All As I pass it off.

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So.

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Constantly aware of it all, my lonely,
Press against the walls of your world.

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Prayin I catch you whisperin Prayin you
catch me listenin I'm prayin I catch

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you whisperin Prayin you catch me.

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Prayin you catch me.

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Alright, so that's my man, Kevin.

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Garrett.

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Kevin, I saw you in Boston at a tiny
little show in the Middle East, upstairs,

00:24:27.860 --> 00:24:30.830
it must have been like winter 2017.

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You killed it.

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You killed it.

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I think you actually played
that, and I was like On one

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in the front or in the back.

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All right, y'all.

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So those are some songs that I thought
would be fun to share as demos from

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before Beyonce did them to once
Beyonce did them, as you can see,

00:24:46.964 --> 00:24:52.004
sometimes not a lot changes, but
where would stars like Beyonce be

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without these brilliant song writers?

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And I think it's such a skill and a craft,
those that can write for their own voice

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or kind of invert it and write actually
for someone else's voice or for like.

00:25:03.980 --> 00:25:06.560
in omniscient person that they
don't know who will take the song.

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In all of these cases, I
think it's so interesting that

00:25:09.820 --> 00:25:11.350
Beyonce didn't change the key.

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And in many of these cases,
Beyonce was working with or bought

00:25:15.719 --> 00:25:17.310
the songs from male songwriters.

00:25:17.320 --> 00:25:18.980
So I think it's kind of interesting.

00:25:18.990 --> 00:25:23.125
Maybe she kind of takes it as a challenge
to like Stretch her range or to like give

00:25:23.125 --> 00:25:26.825
it a shot or hear a different texture
of her voice Or a different register

00:25:26.825 --> 00:25:31.084
than she would normally because men have
written it or just folks with different

00:25:31.085 --> 00:25:35.575
voices than her but anyway, I'll hope
you enjoyed this I know there's like

00:25:36.215 --> 00:25:41.745
tiktokers like crazy out there talking
about like Song samples and blah blah

00:25:41.745 --> 00:25:44.795
blah blah blah But like I've never heard
anyone talk about the ones at least from

00:25:44.795 --> 00:25:48.405
four before and maybe I introduced you
to Kevin Garrett tonight So if that is

00:25:48.465 --> 00:25:50.055
the case, then I take that as a win.

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I hope y'all enjoyed are there artists?

00:25:52.794 --> 00:25:56.315
Are there songwriters that you would
like me to talk about on Galt's radio?

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Please let me know chime in and
I'll see you next time on the vocal