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How Fitz and the Tantrums Made Their New Album, 'Let Yourself Free,' by Working Smarter, Not Harder · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Bits of the Tantrums
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Speaker 1: who single hand Clap Exploded Worldwide, are back with a
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Speaker 1: new full album worth of material called let Yourself Free,
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Speaker 1: which is a bit of an ironic title because Fits
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Speaker 1: tells songwriter universe he actually reeled in is typically free
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Speaker 1: flowing creative process a bit to make the record, he says,
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Speaker 1: with this album, I tried to be more judicious with
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Speaker 1: how I spent my time. I didn't want to write
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Speaker 1: a hundred songs again. I tried to take it down
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Speaker 1: a notch. Instead of writing a song every day, I
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Speaker 1: tried to write two or three a week and really
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Speaker 1: think about it and sit with them. And I ended
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Speaker 1: up writing about fifty songs for this record, and invariably
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Speaker 1: the cream rises to the top. You go from fifty
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Speaker 1: songs eventually down to the twelve for the album you
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Speaker 1: hone the arc. I'm super proud of this record. Let
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Speaker 1: Yourself Free out now, that's Direct from Hollywood.