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How Giveon’s 1st Creative Passion Led To Songwriting · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest Give You on his
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Speaker 1: Catching Fire, thanks in part to his verse on Justin
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Speaker 1: Bieber's new song Peaches featuring Daniel Caesar, but it's also
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Speaker 1: due to his ability to weave a complete, rich story
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Speaker 1: in just a few minutes in his songs, and he
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Speaker 1: learned that skill because of his friend's short attention spans.
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Speaker 1: He tells Rolling Stone, I fell in love with the
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Speaker 1: art of storytelling. I used to write actual stories forty pages,
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Speaker 1: and I wanted instant feedback. Do you like it or not?
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Speaker 1: Let me know by tomorrow. But nobody wanted to read
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Speaker 1: a full story by me that quickly, so I condensed
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Speaker 1: it to where they could give me feedback that I
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Speaker 1: wanted within the next three minutes. And that's how I
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Speaker 1: got to turning stories into a song. Through this whole process,
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Speaker 1: writing songs, telling the story, figuring out the sonics, the
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Speaker 1: singing came last. Give You on his Heartbreak Anniversaries out now,
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Speaker 1: that's direct from Hollywood.