The Cure: Part 1 with Hanif Abdurraqib
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The Ugliness of Love
"This is a song that is kind of upsetting the binary of like I want to be alive or gloomy, I want to die," she said. "It's lyrically that sinks into a reluctant hum of stagnant living." The singer-songwriter says Mary Poole was watching him while he recorded this particular vocal. 'I thought I wouldn't be able to keep the two parts of my personality'
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