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So this is the first...

honest industry feedback I've got but he was still giving it the time and I remember I used to again sit on Big Z's sessions and whatever and he used to tell me I was talented but he was like bro do you know what I don't get about you and I was like what and he was like I used to come to the studio with like my magnums or like might be girls or like just whatever's going on and he's like you've got this like mad fun cheeky energy about you like that's I this version of you on the music I'm hearing

I don't know him.

And it's amazing that you can do it, but it's like you're trying to sell your vulnerability and your whole story before anybody's listening.

So his method was like, why don't you just be...

you and so wrote cheeky bars i wrote it in my loft bedroom i stayed at worthing at the time the heating didn't work in the yard so i had bad bubble wrap like you know like them loft windows have come down i had bubble wrap around all of them so they would like the insulation was dog the room hadn't been converted properly recorded it mix and mastered it myself did you yeah in my bedroom with a i think it's like a 200 pound mic 200 pound mic and how old were you

Yeah, it was crazy and so fast.

I can't remember what it done.

I don't think the views were that mad, but people were talking about it.

I had 10,000 followers.

I didn't have a TikTok account.

Oh, wow.

And Cheeky Bars was flying mad organically.

Bear in mind, this is all in lockdown, yeah?

So I'm having all this mad virality, but we haven't left the house in two years.

I haven't been outside, do you know what I mean?

So then...

Labels are asking, but they're asking to send music.

They're saying, you know, COVID restrictions, we're not allowed to call on meetings.

So obviously my manager's like, no, let's just sit, let's send the music.