Ezra is not the sort of pop star who game plans their career five years in advance. He definitively does not want to break the us. It's too big a place to consider mirroring what my work looks like in europe and australia. The most he will look to his future career is to suggest that being adored by the nation's children means his songs will ultimately become throw back party classics. Any kids that didn't already know him soon did, if they followed joe wick's lock down p e lesson.
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