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Lizzy Mikk outbind is a great storyteller.

And though our songs are often about the well-born subject of breakups and heart breaks,

she has a way with words and phrasing that feels fresh.

A played her song Doomsday toward the end of last year.

It's lead off track to her album Five Seconds Flat, which just came out.

On it is a song called Weird, featuring the voice of Laura Elliott.

The atmosphere and production on the song is gorgeous.

Here's Lizzy to take us to Weird.

So I wrote the first verse and the pre-chorus of Weird with my friend Marlough Brown in London.

And then it kind of sat for a little bit until I pulled it out again in January of 2021,

a couple months after.

I wrote the chorus and then I sent it to Laura and she wrote her verse and I'm honestly amazed

at how perfectly her lyrics line up with the overall theme of the album and the imagery.

I mean, she just nailed it immediately.

And there were definitely some people on my team who were skeptical about putting this song

on the album because of how weird it is.

But in the end, I really felt like it fit the narrative of the entire album and I didn't

want a caterer to anyone else when making this record.

It felt really important to me to always act in the best interest of the project as a whole.

Because creating an album is basically like creating a world to live in.

I felt like this song really added to that world and it was an important part of the story.

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