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Chatterbox, when the stars talk, they talk to

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Nick and Sue. And welcome back to the Chatterbox

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Redux Podcast with me, Nick. and today our special

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guest is Ansley. This is Nick and Sue, a chatterbox

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giving you all you need to know about Muse. The

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best news and reviews for you on Chatterbox!

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Now on Chatterbox UK, we're just lucky enough

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to welcome for the first time, Ansley. Ansley,

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welcome to Chatterbox. How are you? Good, how

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are you? Thank you for having me. Thank you,

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great to meet you. Thank you for coming on. And

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very exciting time for you. I mean, obviously,

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you've... When did you land in the UK? I landed

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yesterday morning and I've been here now for

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a bit. I've slept a lot. So today's really my

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first day here, I feel like. And it's been good.

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I have a little bit of jet lag, but I'm holding

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in. I was going to ask about the jet lag. I've

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never been over the pond without any jet lag,

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ever. So yeah, horrible, isn't it? uh but exciting

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times now i've also interviewed a couple of times

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actually not just this time uh joe hermes has

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been on a couple of times and he's in very exciting

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times as well because uh you are supporting boys

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life as well so yes how did you get that gig

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did they bring you or your agent monday what

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happened how did you get that My manager, Warren,

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actually is the one who got me to open up on

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this tour, which is so amazing. Actually, before

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this, I just opened up for ADMT in October. And

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then right after that, I got a call from Warren,

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my manager, and he was like, would you want to

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be the main opener for Boys Life? And I said,

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heck yeah. So now we're here a few months later

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and I'm so excited. Yeah, yeah. And have you

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been to the UK before? Yes, I was here in October

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when I opened up for ADMT. Oh, see, that was

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over here. Sorry, I didn't know where that was.

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OK, no problem. And OK, have you had the chance

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to see much of the UK when you were here before?

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Are you hoping to do that on this tour now? I

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got to see a lot of the UK. It's beautiful. And

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now I get to go to the other side of it. So it's

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all places I haven't been to yet. So it will

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be a really fun time. I can't wait to see all

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what it's about. What do you think about the

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UK and it's you've got these sort of like medium

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-sized towns we say maybe 100 ,000 people maybe

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smaller and they've all got a theatre what do

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you think of that because it's something that

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a lot of states towns that size don't have but

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we all seem to have a theatre often funded by

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the local council I mean is that an eye -opener

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for you or what do you think of that? I just

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think it's amazing and also all the people I've

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met you know being on this last tour and even

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being here now everybody's so different in their

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own way in every city you go to and it's amazing

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to meet all these wonderful people and how they

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support you know local artists and also artists

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you know from other countries so it's been amazing

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we do love live music we really do and i can

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see that you guys have amazing crowds here and

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like i say the the venue shows you know small

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small towns medium -sized towns with places like

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that so uh yeah uh a lot of people come from

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from over the pond and sort of notice that so

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yeah and uh yeah and funded by the council so

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yeah that's amazing i think to bring local to

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bring the local residents life music and shows

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so yeah it's good uh so how would you class your

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normal style against boy's life Class my normal

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style like as in music. Yeah, how would you say

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class your genres because I Don't think you're

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a like, but how would you class it? Well, I mean,

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I think boys life's music art is very very catchy

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So I think my songs are very catchy I can't seem

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to get them out of my head and so do a lot of

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my fans say that So I think I believe that's

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one thing we have in common I'm a very, very

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into pop, you know, pop music girl. And I feel

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like some of our songs have some similarities

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and also just their stage presence. I think they

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are just amazing and you can't keep your eyes

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off them when you watch them on stage. And that's

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something I believe that I bring when I'm out

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on stage with connecting with an audience. What

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I've seen you look great, I meant sort of genre

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-wise and things like that, but I think what

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I've noticed, because it's not just you and Joe,

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Hermes, and there's been others over the years

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that have supported them, and quite often they

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will have people supporting them that are different

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genres, and it might be like chalk and cheese,

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but it works. Yeah. they're not afraid to have

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some I think is it Brian McFadden's into country

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in a big way he loves a bit of a warm -up artist

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doing something like that so yeah it's something

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with the mix of genres but it seems to work with

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them and they do listen they've done it a long

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time they know what they're doing don't they

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say yes obviously hey look I'm here now and I'm

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about to open and I'm very popped so I can't

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wait to see how that all meshes together and

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I have a feeling it's gonna go great I don't

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think they would ask you unless they knew it

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would work. Let's talk about you and the USA,

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actually, back over there, because you've hit

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the charts over there, haven't you? You've had

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some pretty big successes and that. Tell us a

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bit about that so we can all have a look into

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that. Yeah, so I hit top 40 on radio in the US.

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I think it was like five months ago, I was on

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there for a few months. I think I got to like

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37 or 36. It was amazing hearing my own song

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on the radio for the first time. And then I got

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invited by I heart radio to come sing at their

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Duncan lounge, which was incredible. And Yeah,

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that was one of my big accomplishments so far.

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And working in the US has been amazing. My producer

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is Dallas Austin, who has worked with so many

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talented people in the world, like Madonna and

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Michael Jackson. And now that I've gotten to

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do an album with him, it's just been a whirlwind

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of all my dreams coming true. Sure. And we got

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this new release we're pushing here in the UK

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now, My Own Rich Man. Tell us about that. Tell

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us all about that. How did that come about? So

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my own rich man, I wrote this song actually when

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I was with my producer, Dallas Austin, we were

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in the car coming home from dinner and there

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was a bunch of people in the car and this man

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mentioned to me, he was like, one day Ansley,

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like a man will put you on his private jet. And

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I looked to myself in him and I said, no, one

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day I'll have my own private jet and I'll invite

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a man. So the minute I said that, it clicked

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in my head and I looked at my producer and I

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go, right when we get back to the studio, I'm

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running to the other room, I have a song to write.

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And I was like, go make some beats. So I literally

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wrote this song in under an hour and 30 minutes,

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and I had the best time writing it. It was just

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so much fun. And the fact that the experience

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just happened with that man telling me that,

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and then I wrote My Own Rich Man is... what makes

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it so fun because i even talk about in the song

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that i had my own jet so of it i have listened

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to it we are going to play on our live shows

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as well uh for the next six eight weeks or so

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so we're going to give you a good old spin hopefully

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gets us some of the charts as well when we we

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keep playing we're going to get a good few spins

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here i like it i know there's a lot happening

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at the moment with you and we're only just march

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but What's next? How long is this tour for, actually?

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How long is the Boys' Love Tour? How long is

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that going on for over here with you? Well, so

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when I start March 5th and then I end March 22nd,

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so I'm doing 12 shows. Sure, sure. Yeah. And

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what's next for you? What you got planned? So

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after that I'm going back to America and I'm

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going to finish my album Band From Normal. I

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have one more song to write on there and then

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one of my songs is also hitting America I believe

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in May. Okay. And then my whole album is going

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to be coming out in the summer and then I'm back

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to the UK going on more tours. Cool. We need

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to be chatting about some of that, if you're

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cool with that, because you're quite interesting.

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I like the way you are in your career at the

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moment. You're at a really interesting stage,

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especially with a show with this sort of platform.

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I think we'd really like to have you back on

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to see where you're going next, talk about that

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next tour and the album. I'll ask you about when

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we do the interview. I'll go through the album,

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get you to talk about the tracks, and then we'll

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pick some and play them when I edit it. We do

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it that way. I would love that. Yes, of course.

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And all my social media is at Ansley Music, so

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I post everything on there as well. I'll get

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you to say that again right at the end. But before

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I let you go, I've got a question I want to ask

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you. It sounds like you are coming back, but

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just say, if you had to come back in six months'

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time... Sounds like you might be, but if you

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were to come back in six months time, what would

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you like to be telling me and the Chatterbox

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listeners that you've achieved in that time?

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You know what I would like to say I would like

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to say that my album BAM from normal has hit

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top 10 on charts that one of my songs Has been

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on billboard or is on billboard And that I'm

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opening up for a huge artist artist or even having

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my own tour here in the UK Nice. Nice. Let's

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look forward to you coming on the UK singles

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chart as well all that stuff So yeah, let's do

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your social media and sleep. So yeah all yours

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chuck it in my game, please My social media is

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at Ansley Music, A -N -S -L -E -Y Music. And

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yeah, and then all my streaming services are

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just under Ansley. That's cool. And have you

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been doing any interviews? It's not so madness.

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Have you done any interviews in the U .S. about...

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The Boys Life Tour over here. Has there been

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any interest there? Have you been getting interviews

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on there about it at all? Not yet in the US.

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I actually just started my interviews here today

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in the UK. So we're just getting started. I can't

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wait to see what happens from here and when I

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get started on the tour and opening up. So hopefully

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there will be a lot more when I get back in America

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as well when my song hits radio there. And you're

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going to have a lot to talk about on this tour

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with them. Oh, I will have a lot. I'm excited.

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Ashley, it's been fantastic meeting you. Thank

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you for coming. There will be another time. I

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know there will. And I think it's going to be

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this year. So let's do it again. And in the meantime,

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I wish you every success and great song, My Own

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Rich Man. And let's talk about the album and

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your next tour when you're back. You take care.

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Yes, thank you. Bye. Thank you. Bye bye now.

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