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‘AGT’ Winner Grace VanderWaal Opens Up About the Challenges of Growing into a More Mature Artist · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: It's been eight years since Grace vanderwall one America's Got
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Speaker 2: Talent thanks to her incredible talent singing and playing the ukulele,
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Speaker 2: far beyond the typical talent of a twelve year old.
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Speaker 2: But Grace has since outgrown that persona literally and figuratively,
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Speaker 2: and at twenty, is preparing to release a new album
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Speaker 2: with dark themes of musical production relevant to a woman
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Speaker 2: of her age, which she knows is hard for some
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Speaker 2: fans to process, but a liberating experience as a creative.
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Speaker 2: She tells Variety, the album is definitely going to upset
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Speaker 2: people and make some people really uncomfortable. I'm talking about
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Speaker 2: some pretty serious and heavy topics which aren't super mainstream sellable.
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Speaker 2: A perfect example is Grace's most recent single, a brooding
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Speaker 2: ballad What's Left of Me, which tackles a breakup that
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Speaker 2: didn't go well. She says, I really wanted to depict
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Speaker 2: this very specific feeling, not even sadness, but discussed remembering
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Speaker 2: this person that they changed me and made me the
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Speaker 2: woman that I am, But they don't deserve the credit.
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Speaker 2: What's Left to Me is out now.
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood,