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Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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The Power of Numbers

I remember hearing very frequently when we put out our first album that there was a big mismatch between the emotion of the lyrics and the emotion of music. There's an example on the new right where we're working on a record right now called Okay, Human. And there's a song called Numbers. Matt always would say what he loves about my music writing was the sound like somebody waving a big flag from across a stadium just in triumphed.

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