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How Miguel’s “Sure Thing” Is Actually Enjoying a 3rd Life as a Hit Song · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Miguel is making waves
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  Speaker 1: and grabbing headlines for his twenty eleven hit sure Thing,
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  Speaker 1: which has seen a resurgence, climbing up the charts after
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  Speaker 1: going viral on TikTok. People are saying the single has
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  Speaker 1: been given a second life, but if anything, this is
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  Speaker 1: actually the song's third life. Miguel wrote sure Thing years
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  Speaker 1: prior to twenty eleven, before he even had a record deal.
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  Speaker 1: Then somebody else actually leaked it by posting it to
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  Speaker 1: my Space a couple of years before he even officially
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  Speaker 1: released it. He tells, you know, I got soul after
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  Speaker 1: he got posting on MySpace. It just really got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of attention. Interestingly, it's the song that really convinced
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  Speaker 1: Jive Records to sign me as an artist, and all
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  Speaker 1: the way back in twenty eleven, he commented, Now that
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  Speaker 1: it's on the radio, it's just cool to know that
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  Speaker 1: music stood the test of time. It's a dated record
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  Speaker 1: for me, but for a lot of people, they're just
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  Speaker 1: discovering it became something special to them. So I hold
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  Speaker 1: that to high esteem and I appreciate it. It's incredible.
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  Speaker 1: I think Miguel is now experiencing that exact same thing,
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  Speaker 1: with a whole new third wave of fans discovering it
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  Speaker 1: for the first time. Sure Thing is out now. That's
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  Speaker 1: direct from Hollywood.