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🗓️ 8 June 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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After finding chart-topping success at a formative age, Alicia Keys has spent a lot of time thinking about the high expectations we put on each other. From her own people-pleasing tendencies in her early career, to her very recent breakthroughs in valuing her own self-worth.
In this conversation with Fearne, held under lockdown conditions, they explore those discoveries, her book More Myself, and her forthcoming studio album, Alicia.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Happy Place. I'm Fern Cotton and if you've seen the title of this episode |
0:06.9 | on your screen and are as excited as I am, well I can tell you this chat does not disappoint. |
0:14.0 | Oh my god I'm so excited about this episode. Today we're off to meet Alicia Keys. |
0:20.0 | I'm not responsible for your perspective of me. I'm not responsible for it. I don't have to own it. |
0:27.0 | I don't have to feel like you just hurt me at buy it. I don't have to prove that you're wrong about it. |
0:34.0 | I don't, I'm not responsible to do anything with it. It's not my responsibility. |
0:39.4 | Oh what an honor. We talk about everything and it's just pure joy. I was buzzing after that episode. |
0:49.2 | I didn't sleep well the night after because I couldn't stop thinking about it. |
0:53.6 | Now a massive thank you to the sponsor of this episode, Betest. Your instant hair, a fresh, a |
1:00.0 | bestie. I washed my hair once maybe twice a week but there are absolutely times when I'm honestly |
1:08.6 | so busy that washing and drying it falls to the bottom of my priority list. So boring washing |
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1:59.2 | is going to look great, feel great and smell great from root to length. Go on. Try it now. |
2:07.1 | Okay let's go meet Alicia. Now we recorded this chat when the news about George Floyd's death |
2:14.4 | was just coming through before the incredible scenes we've seen in America and across the world. |
2:21.3 | So with that in mind, here's the show. |
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