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  • tell me something, boy.

  • Aren't you tired trying to fill that boy?

  • One of the first things that Mark said to me.

  • Okay, I know you could write a pop song, but what do you absolutely have to write about?

  • We were writing shallow from the point of view of Ali.

  • E had no idea it was gonna become part of the narrative.

  • And then you start like singing the opening lines.

  • I really did get chills.

  • It becomes part of the reason that they fall off Or do you need me?

  • And it's hard keeping.

  • It's so hard core the me See you.

  • You just write that now.

  • Yeah, it's pretty good.

  • Is there something else you searching for?

  • For there's no point in the movie where any lyric is sung that isn't directly related to exactly what their fear is.

  • Their hope, their dream.

  • When I was writing music for the film, I had to think about Aaliyah's If she wasn't me.

  • Yeah, you know.

  • But I never thought of you.

  • You have so many sides and it was evolving as the film was evolving in the shooting of it s so I went with a sound for her.

  • Even in the pop realm.

  • That's unlike anything I've ever put out before.

tell me something, boy.

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