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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

S18, Ep4 Arlo Parks on the impossibility of perfection

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Sony Music

Society & Culture

4.79.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Arlo Parks is a singer, songwriter and poet. Her debut album, Collapsed in Sunbeams was released when she was just 21 and earned her two Grammy nominations, a BRIT Award and the Mercury Music Prize. Her second, My Soft Machine, came out earlier this year. This month also marks the publication of her first volume of poetry, The Magic Border, a collection of never-before-seen poems and song lyrics. Parks joins me to talk about her faiure to create a perfect piece of work, her failure to save others, her failure to fit into what other people think of her - and why Phoebe Bridgers epitomises 'big brother energy'. I loved talking to this beautiful human - her thoughtfulness and her lyrical expression will soothe you and make you think. Enjoy! -- Arlo's poetry collection, The Magic Border, is out now. -- I'm going on tour! To AUSTRALIA, mate! You can now purchase tickets to see me live at Sydney Opera House on 26th February 2024 or the Arts Centre Melbourne on 28th February 2024. -- How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted and produced by Elizabeth Day. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com -- Social Media: Elizabeth Day @elizabday How To Fail @howtofailpod Arlo Parks @arlo.parks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Now time to thank our partner this episode co-op Funeral Care. I really love this

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podcast partnership because co-op Funeral Care are encouraging us all to think

0:14.9

now about how we might like to be remembered and it caught me thinking about how

0:20.5

I would like to be remembered and how I might want that reflected in my own

0:25.3

Funeral and I'm very aware that it's all part of life and it's so much better

0:31.5

to have those conversations now with your loved ones so that they can be prepared

0:36.2

for the future too and I think I would want my funerals to reflect the things

0:40.5

that I love so bear with me. I think I would like an acappella rendition of a

0:46.3

90s hip hop track because I want the mood to be uplifting I don't want it to be

0:50.8

more abundant I don't want it to be too depressing because it's all part of

0:55.3

life and I think I'd also like some readings from my favorite works of

1:00.3

literature because I think I want to be remembered as someone who really

1:05.2

valued the importance of connection and who really understood the meaning of

1:09.7

life through art and words and yeah 90s hip hop so I think that's how I'd like

1:15.7

to be remembered and I would really love to hear from you my lovely how to

1:20.1

fail listeners about how you would like to be remembered how do you see your

1:25.3

funeral planning out what elements would you like to introduce please email me

1:30.4

all of your thoughts all of your suggestions to how to fail pod at gmail.com that's

1:37.1

how to fail pod at gmail.com tell me how you wish to be remembered and how this

1:43.1

can be brought to life in your own funeral wishes and further down the line I

1:47.7

will be discussing some of those emails so let me know because I think the more

1:54.0

we open up this kind of conversation the better it is for all of us and for our

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