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Why Duncan Laurence Almost Said NO To Working With Fletcher, Even Though It Was His Dream · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. It's fairly common these
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Speaker 1: days when a great song that's already been released by
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Speaker 1: a lesser known artist needs to boost, a more established
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Speaker 1: star will add a verse to expose it to more
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Speaker 1: people and hopefully transform it into a hit. And that's
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Speaker 1: exactly what happened with Duncan Lawrence's song Arcade when Fletcher
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Speaker 1: got on board. But Duncan admits he wasn't on board
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Speaker 1: at first, even though he was already a big fan
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Speaker 1: of Fletcher and had even told his label he would
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Speaker 1: love to collaborate with him. One day, he tells songwriter Universe.
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Speaker 1: She texted me out of the blue and said, I
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Speaker 1: would love to work together. Would it be a good
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Speaker 1: idea if I wrote my own verse for Arcade? We
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Speaker 1: couldn't make it a duet, but I wasn't sure. I
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Speaker 1: told her, well, I've been singing that song for a
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Speaker 1: year and a half now, so you've got to convince
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Speaker 1: me because it's my song. So she sent over the
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Speaker 1: files with her verse in it, and I was blown away.
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Speaker 1: I was like, I want to do this. It melted
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Speaker 1: together so well. I'm so proud of it. The words
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Speaker 1: of Duncan Lawrence and Arcade with Fletcher is out now.
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.