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Sam Fischer Never Thought "This City" Would Be The Song To Change His Career · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. After ten hard years
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  Speaker 1: of grinding, Sam Fisher's life changed with his breakout hit
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  Speaker 1: This City, which he never would have written if he
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  Speaker 1: hadn't been caught in the struggle to get his music
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  Speaker 1: career off the ground. And even after he finished, he
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  Speaker 1: never thought anyone would ever hear it or it would
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  Speaker 1: make any impact on his career. He couldn't have been
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  Speaker 1: more wrong, he explains to Songwriter Universe. I had my
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  Speaker 1: first record deal and all the things attached to my
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  Speaker 1: name that I thought would make me happy, but they
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  Speaker 1: weren't how I envisioned them. I wrote it as a
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  Speaker 1: diary entry, just to get it off my chest. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't expect anyone to care about it. I was in
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  Speaker 1: a bad mood when I wrote it, just completely defeated.
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  Speaker 1: And so to see what it's become, how fans have
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  Speaker 1: redefined the song. Instead of it just being about my
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  Speaker 1: struggle in l A, it's more about universal hope. He
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  Speaker 1: means so much. He says, this City's out now, that's
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  Speaker 1: direct from Hollywood.