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Oliver Tree Reveals Why He Started Collaborating for His Mental Health · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Oliver Tree has built a steady career music by taking
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Speaker 2: and alternative path to success by creating a comedic persona
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Speaker 2: in order to grab people's attention, when really, for him,
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Speaker 2: it's always been mainly about the music, to the point
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Speaker 2: where he's often isolated himself for a long periods of time,
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Speaker 2: obsessing over every detail he had missed a billboard. He
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Speaker 2: even grappled with bouts of extreme loneliness until he realized
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Speaker 2: he didn't have to be that way. He says, I
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Speaker 2: can produce these songs by myself, but it's not something
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Speaker 2: I'm particularly interested in doing anymore because it's very lonely.
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Speaker 2: As I evolved as an artist, I recognize it doesn't
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Speaker 2: have to be. I would rather do it with my
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Speaker 2: friends and go to Brazil with them and do it there.
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Speaker 2: It's a lot more sustainable in the long term. Oliver
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Speaker 2: Tree's third studio, I'm Alone and a Crowd is out now.
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