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While When You Grow Up took shape, so did their working relationship. “If I said, ‚Oh I‘m not sure about this or that,‘ Ethan was like, ‚Okay.‘ He had absolutely no ego, which is very rare. He paid just as much attention to each and every performance. Ethan has such a great ear for placement, making the focus be the words and the voice. I trusted that he was listening.„ As additional players joined the two in the studio, the process continued in an organic fashion (including recording to tape). “It was totally old school. We would do live takes with the band, all day, and sometimes into the next. Then we‘d all sit in the studio and listen back until we found the one with just the right vibe.„


The final touches came about just as naturally. Tempting as it may be to label When You Grow Up a concept album, it isn‘t. The album title came to Ahn one night after dinner with Ethan‘s father, industry legend Glyn Johns, long after all the songs were written. Likewise, the loose story arc that begins with childhood, progresses through cycles of romance and heartbreak, and concludes with the wise, reflective “Torch Song,„ only emerged after settling on that title. That might seem a bit backwards, but it‘s the nature of life—and the creative process. We never truly know what has transpired until we have time to look back and reflect. All of us, especially artists, are always in flux, ever changing. Judging from When You Grow Up, listeners can expect even bigger and better things from Priscilla Ahn over time.


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