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🗓️ 22 August 2023
⏱️ 90 minutes
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James Blunt (Who We Used To Be) and Justin talk about how his hit “You’re Beautiful” rocketed him to international fame back in the early 2000s, how he navigates online haters using his own brand of self-deprecating humor and the motivation and meaning behind his most recent album “Who We Used To Be.”
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0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to Life is Short, add free on Amazon Music, download |
0:05.7 | the app today. |
0:13.7 | I was thinking back to my earliest recognition of beauty, female beauty in the world. |
0:19.8 | And as we've discussed on the show, I was quite young when I first came to be fascinated |
0:25.9 | by female beauty. |
0:28.3 | I was, you were a very young heterosexual. |
0:31.4 | I was right out of the womb. |
0:34.5 | I was like, that's interesting. |
0:37.8 | I remember being four or five years old and seeing beauty in the world. |
0:43.1 | I first remember my mother, our mother, making a big deal about Michelle Pfeiffer. |
0:48.6 | And I think she was in a movie. |
0:50.2 | She was in some movie coming out at the time in the early mid 80s, probably Scarface |
0:55.8 | or Grease II. |
0:58.7 | And my mother would just make such a big deal about it. |
1:01.4 | And I, not to blame her, but I think I started connecting Michelle Pfeiffer's face with |
1:07.1 | an exciting thing. |
1:08.2 | And then when I got into the world a little bit more, when I was like five years old, |
1:12.4 | our older brother Damien was in Friday classes. |
1:15.0 | And there was a girl, she was a year older than me. |
1:18.7 | She had red hair. |
1:19.7 | I don't know anything else about her, but I was transfixed by her. |
1:24.0 | I would want to go with my parents to pick Damien up from Karate in the hopes that I |
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