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The Shocking Backstory Of Emmy Meli’s Hit, “I Am Woman” · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Emmy Melly first book
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  Speaker 1: on TikTok thanks to her viral female empowerment anthem I
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  Speaker 1: Am Woman, which wasn't much of an anthem when she
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  Speaker 1: first created it. In fact, it was only forty four
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  Speaker 1: seconds long, and he shared the songs backstory with songwriter Universe, saying,
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  Speaker 1: I had a dream that inspired me to love myself more.
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  Speaker 1: So I wrote these little mantras to help remind me.
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  Speaker 1: I picked some majectives I thought were interesting and unique.
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  Speaker 1: At band rehearsal, my guitars played a funky groove and
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have lyrics, so I started singing these mantras
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  Speaker 1: that I've been saying to myself every day, and my
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  Speaker 1: guitar player said, this is really good. So I went
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  Speaker 1: home and found this random little beat and started singing
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  Speaker 1: to it. I posted the forty four second video on TikTok.
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  Speaker 1: Andy recorded that version into her phone propped up on
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  Speaker 1: our coffee table. But it did the trick, because almost
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  Speaker 1: overnight she went from four thousand followers to six hundred thousand.
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  Speaker 1: I Am a Woman is out now. That's Direct from
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood