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In her songs, Hobert plays the stand-up comic\u2019s trick of making her imperfections and insecurities empowering. On the moving Phoebe<\/em>, a song about identifying with Lisa Kudrow\u2019s character on the TV sitcom Friends<\/em>, she casually sings about her struggles with body image and finding solace in the show\u2019s wacky outcast.<\/p>\n\u201cI just found it funny that none of the three guys on the show are ever with Phoebe. Like, they\u2019ll be with Rachel or with Monica but never with her, just because she\u2019s the quirky girl. I really identified with her, just as an idea of something,\u201d says Hobert.<\/p>\n\n\u201cI don\u2019t know how this all happened. I just know that for eight months last year, I wrote viciously, and here we are.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cI\u2019ve felt a lot in my life this struggle to feel physically beautiful, but I\u2019ve always known my worth on the inside. And the older you get, the less that feeling of physical unworthiness serves you, so obviously you want to reach that point as early as possible, like in your 20s, where you\u2019re just like, \u2018F\u2014 it, I\u2019m entirely beautiful.\u2019 I\u2019m proud of that song, and I\u2019m glad I got to talk about that feeling I\u2019ve had for a lot of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hobert\u2019s very specific approach to songwriting comes at an opportune time. The pop industry is flailing, the powers that be seem to understand that whatever formula they might\u2019ve once had for producing hits is no longer working. I\u2019m reminded of the debate that emerged after Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s Espresso<\/em> went big, and people suddenly remembered that pop music can be weird and fun and break rules.<\/p>\nLoading<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nFor four months last year, Hobert tried the industry\u2019s approach. \u201cI was in sessions, trying to write for other artists, and I knew immediately it wasn\u2019t for me,\u201d she says. \u201cI find that setting to be not conducive to the kind of writing I like to do for songs because there\u2019s a beat looping in the background, and the producer has dinner at six, and you\u2019re sitting across from someone whose head you\u2019re supposed to be in but you\u2019ve only just met them. I really respect songwriters who can be in that setting and successfully write a big, amazing song, but I\u2019m not one of those people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The experience only cemented her faith in her own idiosyncratic process. \u201cIn the writing camp world and sessions world, it\u2019s a normal thing to have a concept or a title and then to build a song around that, but I never do that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI usually start at the first line and write all the way through. I find a second verse to be the hardest thing to write in a song, and a bridge to be the most fun. I\u2019m not really someone who sits down and writes a song in an hour. It takes me weeks, usually, and many, many hours. I do say a lot of words in each song, and I go pretty fast, but I think there\u2019s as much importance paid to understanding pop structures and formulas as there is to breaking those rules.\u201d<\/p>\n
Audrey Hobert\u2019s Who\u2019s the Clown?<\/em> is out now.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.smh.com.au \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size One day you\u2019re watching in awe as your roommate becomes a sudden pop sensation, the next you\u2019ve found yourself hitched along for the ride. No, this is not the plot of Netflix\u2019s latest teen rom-com; this is Audrey Hobert\u2019s life. Last year, Hobert burst onto pop fans\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1957787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1957786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Audrey-Hobert-Whos-the-Clown-album-review.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1957787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}