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To The Interviews, a Zach Sang show exclusive podcast.

Hello, beautiful human.

Thanks for clicking on our conversation with Jack Jay, also known as JVCKJ.

He has a brand new EP out.

It's called Pastel.

The early days, there's a link in the description below. If you haven't listened to it yet, good guy. We're going to cover absolutely everything. Okay, here we go. Let's do this.

Dude, you have a new EP out. Congratulations.

Thank you, brother. I appreciate you. It means the world.

Pastel, the early days.

Pastel, the early days, yeah.

When I hear it, I hear a bunch of different sounds, but I hear a guy who is, from what I hear is speaking a version of the truth to some degree.

Is that correct?

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, I would say, like, there's a good grip of truth in every, every song.

I like to exaggerate the truth sometimes or, you know, sometimes with myself in someone else's shoes.

Or sometimes just write a story from, like, a completely different perspective.

That's not my own.

It could be completely fabricated.

But this, this project was very personal um and yeah a lot of the songs in this one

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