Pop Superstar Missy Higgins on Sexuality, Fame and Failure

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Josh Szeps

Comedy Interviews, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Comedy

4.6 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Missy Higgins is one of Australia's most successful musicians. She exploded onto the scene in 2004. Her debut single launched at No. 1, her first album debuted at No. 1, and, barely out of her teens, she won the ARIA, Australia's Grammy, for Best Pop Release.

Tabloid speculation swirled about her sexuality. Josh wants to know how she now thinks about gayness, love, fame and failure. Her new album, released exactly on the 20th anniversary of her first, is The Second Act.

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0:00.0	Gide, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. Is she or isn't she gay or straight or
0:10.3	buy in or out of the closet? These are some of the most dangerous questions that can plague a young
0:16.5	person, especially when they're skyrocketed to fame as a result of their creative genius,
0:22.5	as was today's guest Missy Higgins.
0:24.5	It's hard to overstate for non-Australians how important Missy Higgins is in the Australian
0:29.0	music pantheon.
0:30.6	She exploded to superstardom down under when she was still in her late teens, her first single shot to number one.
0:38.4	And doesn't it feel peculiar when everyone wants to leave more
0:43.7	so that I'd to remember.
0:46.5	You'd never go that far.
0:48.7	Could you leave me with the sky?
0:53.2	On her first album went straight to number one at the aria awards which are
0:57.2	Australia's Grammys she won best pop album and we could only see each other will
1:04.4	breathe together these are who are not be taught to need another others because we're the special too.
1:14.3	She was a phenomenon, and at the time, she was secretly dating her tour manager,
1:20.9	who happened to be a female.
1:23.4	The tabloids went crazy, speculation swirled,
1:26.5	and now she finds herself with a couple of kids and an ex-husband and an incredible life
1:33.5	story.
1:34.5	She has a brand new album, which is a must listen.
1:37.3	And I just found it fascinating to explore fame, success, failure, love, the closet, and everything else with the one and
1:45.9	only, Missy Higgins.
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