Emma Louise: Fresh Find
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Pushkin Industries
4.5 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In a bonus Fresh Find episode, Bruce Headlam interviews Australian singer-songwriter Emma Louise about having an accidental overseas hit and pitching her voice down so that it's unrecognizable on her latest album.
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| 0:00.0 | There's so many ways to find new music today, but still you don't expect to discover |
| 0:22.0 | a new artist while shopping for clothes online. |
| 0:24.7 | But that's exactly how Bruce Heathlin stumbled across today's guest. |
| 0:29.4 | Rousing for shoes on a website that had a pop-up music player, Bruce heard this voice. |
| 0:53.5 | He was intrigued and surprised to find it wasn't a man singing. |
| 0:57.4 | It was Australian singer-songwriter Emma Louise, who's been writing and recording music |
| 1:02.5 | for over a decade since she was just 18 years old. Emma decided to lower her natural singing voice |
| 1:08.6 | on her latest album, Lilac Everything, by pitching it down with a post-production plugin called Alter Boy. |
| 1:14.3 | In this fresh find interview, Bruce talks to Emma about why she decided to change her voice, |
| 1:19.4 | how singing in a different pitch gives her the freedom she craves, and about the time she became |
| 1:24.1 | an Italian pop star for a summer. And then she played some songs for us live, pitching down her voice |
| 1:30.6 | in real time. This is Broken Record, liner notes for the digital age. I'm Justin Richmond. |
| 1:44.0 | Here's Emma Louise performing the song that captured Bruce's attention. Wish you well. |
| 1:55.0 | There she is. Perfectly framed by the words she painted green. |
| 2:06.9 | With the help of those hands, please. |
| 2:12.5 | Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. |
| 2:18.8 | And best she dreams, dream when all the dreams are used to dream, you own, you own, you own, you own. |
| 2:34.6 | Oh, when you're with me, you're with me. |
| 2:41.6 | No, you could never move down this one. |
| 2:50.4 | And lie to me, say this, stay some place we can't leave. |
| 3:02.2 | But if not, I wish you were, I wish you were. |
| 3:18.2 | Oh, I wish you were, I wish you were. |
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