2023-07-17
32 分钟TED audio collective, you're listening to how to be a better human.
I'm your host, Chris Duffy.
There's nothing that captures an emotion or sets a mood quite like music.
I mean, there's a reason why you never hear about people sitting in their car making out to a podcast.
And by the way, if you are currently making out to this podcast, you please stop.
When it comes to capturing emotions, one of the most powerful musical genres is the breakup song.
When you are aching and feeling lonely and hurt and sad, sometimes the only thing that soothes that pain is a good breakup song.
Its like the only person who knows exactly what youre feeling is the person singing about going through that exact same thing themselves.
And todays guest Jesse Reyes knows all about that.
She is a Grammy nominated musician with more than a billion streams globally.
Shes performed at Coachella, made a cameo on Beyonce's Black is King visual album, and won four Juno awards.
And here is what Jesse had to say in her TEd talk about how she's used pain and heartbreak as fuel in some of her biggest creative breakthroughs.
In March of 2016 I was just getting started as a songwriter.
I was knee deep in demos and potential, but I had nothing to show for it, aka broke.
And to top it off, I was incredibly heartbroken over someone who had betrayed me.
One night I went into the studio and I emotionally vomited into the microphone.
Kind of like what I did here.
The song I made that night ended up changing the course of my life forever.
I made figures, it went viral, I got signed, I went on tour, I made some bread, I officially retired my parents, I made an album, made another album, got called by Ted Talk, and now I'm here with you lovely people.
Sounds great, but I'm not saying my life is perfect.