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Aug 2024
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Writing With Kesha’s Mom & Taylor Swift’...

THE CIMORELLI PODCAST
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Today on the podcast we are talking all about our experiences with songwriting. We discuss everything from how we got started writing to what our process looks like now and even what it was like to write with some very big songwriters!

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