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Jacqueline Emerson

For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is l

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Jacqueline Emerson is saying that because she only listened to pop and rock music while growing up, her ability to write music was limited by that narrow experience. She believes that expanding her musical knowledge beyond those two genres is necessary to improve and diversify her songwriting skills.

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