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Why Victoria Monét Thinks the Slow Burn to Pop Success Is a Way Better Path · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Victoria Monet took home a well deserved Grammy for Best
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  Speaker 2: New Artist earlier this year, but it's also an honor
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  Speaker 2: that might paint an inaccurate picture for a casual fan,
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  Speaker 2: because the reality is Victoria has been grinding for a
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  Speaker 2: decade and a half, first move in to Hollywood to
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  Speaker 2: be part of a girl group that didn't work out,
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  Speaker 2: then eventually transitioning into an in demand songwriter for the
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  Speaker 2: likes of Ariana Grande and Chloe and Halley, but all
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  Speaker 2: the while consistently struggling to get her own solo career
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  Speaker 2: off the ground. In fact, she tells Billboard, even when
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  Speaker 2: she opened for Ariana Grande back in twenty sixteen, she
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  Speaker 2: did her own hotel bookings and itinerary because she couldn't
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  Speaker 2: find a manager. But in the end it was all
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  Speaker 2: worth it and created a situation she finds even more appealing.
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  Speaker 2: Victoria says, I prefer it this way rather than achieving
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  Speaker 2: fame quickly or having it handed to me on a
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  Speaker 2: silver platter. I know I have a great foundation and
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  Speaker 2: likes to stand on because everything I built was brick
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  Speaker 2: by brick. A career takes an excellent amount of patients.
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  Speaker 2: Victoria Monet there, whose deluxe version of Jaguar two comes
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  Speaker 2: out later this year.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood