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00:00i'm like a bird is such a classic what inspired that song i'm like a bird was um inspired by
00:07i was in a relationship in my very early 20s right it was kind of like a first relationship
00:14kind of first kind of more like very serious relationship after my long sort of long-term
00:20high school boyfriend it was the next relationship after that um and yeah i was in a relationship and
00:25i was out in los angeles finishing my album kind of on my own i was very isolated i was probably 20
00:31i was 20 or 21 or something out there kind of in this little apartment um just working on music and
00:40my collaborators were kind of older than me and they had their girlfriends and their wives out there
00:44but not me so it was a bit lonely and um they're like okay write some new songs you know and bring
00:51them into the studio i think it was our first day working in la trying to finish my album after
00:55having made the rest of it in canada and i was sitting on a sofa uh at the time this place was
01:01called the oakwood suites here in in la and uh you'd go to the gym and you'd see like i don't know
01:08like kids i guess who are doing i don't know if they're working with disney or what they're working
01:12but you know it was the place that people went to make their dreams come true where they would stay
01:17when they weren't yet living in la so i sat on a sofa and uh picked up my guitar and i wrote three
01:24songs that day and uh and the third one i wrote was i'm like a bird and i'm telling you the one i
01:31wrote before was trash it was a really bad song really corny not good and you know yeah you never
01:39know you might just be on the edge of something good you know do you remember like the when you
01:43played it for everyone like on your team like was everyone like my manager was at the studio
01:48yeah my manager chris was at the studio and and and he's like oh okay i want to hear what you wrote
01:53today so i played him the three songs and i was convinced the corny one was good oh it was really
02:00bad i can i can sing it wait please sing it for me in a second but like it's really crazy no but
02:07anyways so how corny are we talking all right so this is the one that i thought was better okay and
02:14i'm like a bird okay it goes okay wait it's like he was cock sure and i was a pussy had it in the
02:22corner i couldn't come out he was cock sure and i was a pussy had it in the corner i couldn't come out
02:28and i think the end was like here kitty kitty like i swear to i'm not even kidding
02:34i thought that was better than i'm like a bird which i then was the third song on the
02:40the demo that i'd made that morning no no and my manager said i don't know yeah okay
02:47i think i think the bird one's really good they both had bird themes one was cock sure it's like a
02:53rooster sorry i am literally like a little zany no this is like the best thing i've heard all day
03:01to know that it was between like a cock and a pussy versus a bird yeah oh my god watch that
03:07literally trend on um tiktok now people are gonna cup that isn't it funny though because i actually
03:12forgot about that till like like a couple months ago and i was like whoa that's crazy that i'd
03:16written a very horrible song and a song that might be quite good right after i mean yeah i'm like a
03:22bird is i feel like forever going to be iconic i'm curious because that song is so inspiring right
03:28have you ever walked away from someone that you felt like was holding you back like in a romantic
03:35relationship well that song was about that yep so that song uh i did i did want to i did want to break
03:40up you know with that guy so so i kind of wrote the song oh my god did you write the song and then
03:45break up with him well i sent it to him and he and he and he said hey i feel like i heard the song
03:52like what's up nelly yeah i did yeah so you no context you just sent him the song well i was like
04:02oh this is my latest thing yeah no but no i think i ended up that i ended that relationship on tour
04:07but it was literally it wasn't very it was like from a payphone you know on tour like i was with my
04:14band you know like it was one of those moments but it's very normal it's kind of like you know
04:19your college boyfriend or something you know and then you move on hi daddy gang thank you so much
04:24for watching this video keep in mind that was just a little clip from the episode if you want to
04:28watch the entire full video episode it is linked below it's the first thing in the description
04:33go watch it it's a great episode love you all i will see you next wednesday

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