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Knox Reveals to Us Why He Recorded So Many Different Versions of “Not the 1975” Before He Got It Right · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Knox captured Lightning in a Bottle with his hit song
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Speaker 2: Not the nineteen seventy five, which is about a real
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Speaker 2: moment where a girl in a club referenced Matt Healey's
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Speaker 2: band the nineteen seventy five and when the idea to
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Speaker 2: make it a song came to know he knew he
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Speaker 2: was onto something special. But he actually made several versions
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Speaker 2: of the song, at least five before he got it right.
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Speaker 2: And the problem with the first few attempts was that
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Speaker 2: he actually added too much of the nineteen seventy five
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Speaker 2: to the recipe.
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Speaker 3: They were a little too like tongue in cheeks, like
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Speaker 3: we tried to make them sound like nineteen seventy five
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Speaker 3: songs and instead we were just like, man, let's just
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Speaker 3: soat references in and make it still sound like us.
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Speaker 3: It was just like a little too much, you know.
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Speaker 2: Knox heads back on tour April eighth, and he tells
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Speaker 2: us if you come see him, expect to lose your
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Speaker 2: voice and experience pretty much every single human emotion. Tickets
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Speaker 2: are on sale, and Not the nineteen seventy five is
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Speaker 2: out now.
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