Hi and humorous conversations to feed your creative soul and get you thinking.

Normally with me, Louise Fletcher and Alice Sheridan.

However, Alice is busy creating for an upcoming show and we weren't able to make our schedules align.

So we were going to give this week a miss, but I have something I want to talk about and

so this seemed like the perfect opportunity to do a solo episode.

So if you don't like me, turn off now because that's all you're going to get this week.

I'm going to try and keep this to be a short episode and if you receive my newsletter on a Sunday which you can sign up for on my

website if you don't already get it you will have actually already read something about this but I wanted to talk about it on the

podcast because I know we have a different audience on the podcast and because it's really kind of

blown my mind in a way a little bit about

I do a lot of introspective thinking about my art about how I want to create what I want to create about where I'm blocking myself from creating.

And so I'm going to tell you a story and the story does relate to your art,

so I hope you'll stick with me for a few minutes as I lay out the

background. So once one of the time there was a young famous beautiful pop

star she went to an awards event and she met a very charismatic and controversial young musician and they had this instant mutual attraction.

But the attraction was also doomed because she was on her

way to mega stardom, she was just going to be a billionaire, she was going to rule the world and he wasn't even that keen on

fame he really just cared about the music oh and he had a slight heroin problem at

the time but there was something there and over the next 10 years

unbeknownst to either sets of their fans they stayed in touch, occasionally in person, but mostly through music. The timing was probably I don't know the details but I guess it was never right for them to actually be together but they kept writing songs about each other. They kept writing

these passionate, yearning, complex songs or performing songs in such a way that the other one would understand the message coming from them and they did this over and over again between 2014 and 2022.

And then in 2023 everything aligned. He was clean, off drugs. They were both free at the same time. They came together quite publicly at the time.

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