Emily King's heartbreak on 'Special Occasion'

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🗓️ 9 June 2023

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Grammy-nominated singer Emily King is a master architect of love songs: her dreamy pop-infused music has provided the soundtrack to many romances. This week, she's opening up about how she baked a fresh heartbreak into the sound of her latest album, Special Occasion. She's writing through her pain, shaking the shame around being honest and dealing with vulnerability hangovers.

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0:00.0	You're listening to its beneminent from NPR, I'm Brittany Loose.
0:08.6	I've got someone special on today.
0:11.6	Her name is Emily King.
0:13.6	She's a Grammy-nominated musician, and I love her because she's literally made the soundtrack
0:19.6	to my love life.
0:29.2	You make lots of different kinds of songs, and you make a lot of love songs, beautiful
0:33.3	love songs.
0:34.3	Thank you.
0:35.3	Two of which are like, of course, two of which are Time Capsule Love Songs for my relationship
0:40.8	with my husband.
0:41.8	Woo!
0:42.8	Like if I hear them, if we hear them, then this is like, it goes back to the summer of
0:47.8	2015, we start dating.
0:49.6	Oh.
0:50.6	Yeah, one of them is Decisions, which you made with Taylor McFarion, and the other one is
0:55.1	Distance.
0:56.1	Oh.
0:57.1	We love Donnie Giddle by making you and sleep into the moon.
1:04.1	My day is not ever been still young.
1:09.6	Because he used to work overnight, and so we didn't know I'd get to sleep.
1:12.5	Oh, I see.
1:13.5	He was so weak.
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