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Billie Eilish Almost Named Her New Album After a Joke on ‘The Office’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Billy Otish's new album finally out with a poetic, provocative name,
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Speaker 2: hits Me Hard and Soft, which Billy just revealed a
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Speaker 2: rolling stone she actually lifted from one of the computer
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Speaker 2: tools she and Phineas used to make music, a virtual
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Speaker 2: synth or VST. It's a preset sound and a program
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Speaker 2: called fab Filter twin three that she misread the name of.
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Speaker 2: It's actually called hit Me Soft, hit Me Hard, but
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Speaker 2: the name stuck with her. She also revealed she almost
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Speaker 2: called the album Patheticvill from a joke Mindy Kaling made
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Speaker 2: on an episode of the Office. Billy says, I just
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Speaker 2: thought Pathetic vill was awesome, and we laughed and we
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Speaker 2: wrote it down. Then there's a couple more that we
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Speaker 2: thought of, and nothing was really sticking, but I knew
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Speaker 2: it would come. It always comes eventually. When she and
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Speaker 2: Phineas were working on music in the studio, Billy saw
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Speaker 2: that synthesized the preset pop up on the screen and
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Speaker 2: the rest is history. Hit Me Hard and Soft is
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Speaker 2: out now.
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