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You Won’t Believe How Many Songs Lizzo Wrote With This Superstar In A Single Day · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Not too many people
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Speaker 1: know that Lizzo's breakout album Because I Love You featured
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Speaker 1: a healthy contribution by alt rock trio X Ambassador's lead
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Speaker 1: singer Sam Harris, who co authored three songs were including
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Speaker 1: the title track itself. Sam says, even though she was
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Speaker 1: a relative unknown at the time, collaborating with her was
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Speaker 1: a dream and ridiculously productive. He tells Billboard, She's the greatest.
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Speaker 1: It was so easy. I think we wrote maybe three
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Speaker 1: other songs on top of the ones that made the album,
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Speaker 1: and one day we wrote Heaven Helped Me, Because I
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Speaker 1: Love You, and like three other ones that we never
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Speaker 1: ended up finishing. It's nice to work with other artists
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Speaker 1: because not only are you getting out of your own
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Speaker 1: comfort zone that you go with what their vision is.
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Speaker 1: It takes the ego out of it a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Ex Ambassador's let Us Hold You Down is out now.
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Speaker 1: That's Direct from Hollywood.