Zach Sang Show Hi beautiful human I'm Zach that's Dana. Welcome to the studio back again our friend Tori Kelly. Yay! I'm so happy to be here. You're the best. You're the best. I really, you know, I was telling somebody today like our origin story and I feel like I fucking bring it up every time we talk. Literally every interview. I've seen comments.

They're like,

they talk about this every time.

We're going to move on. Here we go again. Like, gosh, we get it. I just want to say, like this album that we're about to dive into is fucking incredible. And it is nothing like you've ever put out before. And you're at like a really different stage in life, but also the sonics attached to this thing is crazy.

And there's definitely growth between the last conversation that we had. like a really different stage in life, but also the sonics attached to this thing is crazy.

And there's definitely growth between the last conversation that we had.

Yeah.

And at that time, you were, I mean, you were very close to releasing an album.

Well, the last time was a year ago.

Last one was a year ago, I had just one song out from this album.

So I just, I think I just had put out missing you. And I knew I had all these songs on deck. But I was like- But did we not talk about Young Gunn or was I? No. I don't think we did. Because the EP wasn't even out. Okay, that's crazy. This is what happened. This is what happened. We were supposed, we had an interview schedule. And then you got sick. I know. You were supposed to come in the next day. Literally. I've been looking forward to this just so you guys know for so long because I was devastated when I was like, like I had this health scare super scary like ended up, sorry about, ended up collapsing like randomly and had like shortness of breath and everything. I was in the hospital. And the first thing I said, like, everyone was super worried and stuff. And the first thing I was like, wait, I have to get out of here. Like, I have an interview with the exact thing tomorrow. Like, why am I here? And everyone was like, okay, yeah, like, we'll see. And, you, you know, sure I had to, you know, get admitted, of course, and I was there for like a couple days. But I was so sad because my EP was, you know, set to come out. That's it. That same week, a few days later. And then, yeah, this, I was, I was so bummed that we had to cancel. But when they rescheduled it for now, it's like, oh, that's perfect.

We have, now we can just talk about the whole album instead of just the AP.

Did you have two parts ready to go that made up an album before?

Or did you end up writing the rest of this album after being in the hospital?

So a little bit of both, really the whole project was always meant to be a whole project. Like it was always John Bellion and I got in the studio and

it was always like, okay, this is our vision. These are all the songs. And then myself and the team,

we kind of decided to do like a part one EP just to sort of like get people kind of used to the sound because I knew it was a little bit of a departure.

And so instead of just like throwing all the songs out there at once, we're like maybe we kind of, you know, give a little taste test.

And so we, you know, broke it up that way.

And now, well, after I had the health scare, I actually did end up adding like two new songs to it.

And one of those songs, is it high water, right?

Yeah, high water.

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