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This Artist’s Music Has Been Streamed 14 Billion Times, Even Though She Just Released Her Debut Album Last Week · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Ryan Seacrest. There's a good chance you've never
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  Speaker 1: heard of an artist named Stara, but there's almost no
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  Speaker 1: chance you haven't heard her music. The song she's written
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  Speaker 1: or co written the likes of Beyonce, Rihanna, The Weekend,
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  Speaker 1: Drake Holsey, and Urn five have all been streamed a
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  Speaker 1: combined fourteen billion times. She's also the as Capen Songwriter
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  Speaker 1: of the Year, and the first woman to claim that
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  Speaker 1: title in two decades, but she's largely stayed behind the
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  Speaker 1: scenes until now. Her new album, The Longest Interlude, arrived
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  Speaker 1: last week with production from heavy hitters like Scritics and
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  Speaker 1: Ile Rogers. Stars strives for honesty and vulnerability in her songs,
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  Speaker 1: which she feels is missing and a lot of modern music,
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  Speaker 1: and when she writes for other artists, she tries to
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  Speaker 1: do the same, but through their eyes. She tells a
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  Speaker 1: p News, I feel like it's important for me to
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  Speaker 1: sit down and have a conversation with them and see
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  Speaker 1: where they're at in life and just what kind of
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  Speaker 1: music they want to make. I'm highly empathetic, so I
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  Speaker 1: can pretty much put myself in that person's shoes and rite,
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  Speaker 1: if necessary for them from their perspective. Thirteen songs from
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  Speaker 1: her own perspective make up her new album, The Longest Interlude,
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  Speaker 1: which is out now. That's direct from Hollywood