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

James Blake

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

CHAPTER

I Was Consumed Yet With What People Thought of Me, Right?

The song for that record, i e retrograde, didn't really come to me until probably the second from last thing i wrote in a like, three year period. It actually was touch and go, really. If that song hadn't been on the record, i don't think people would have bought it because they liked the first album. But by that time, i'd been in my first relationship as well, a we changed things, and i had more to write about. I wasn't just writing about being a lonely virgin any more. And er, you know, there was some level of accounto, accountability from that as well. You know, like just starting to realize that

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