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Audrey Hobert is back at Genius to break down her track “Thirst Trap.” Produced by Ricky Gourmet, the song is off her debut album 'Who’s the Clown?" On today’s episode of Verified, the singer-songwriter talks about flipping the typical crush song, how having a crush changed her, the struggle of getting the perfect selfie, and more!

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00:00Here's the thing that bugs me about a crush.

00:01When I'm reading a book and I don't have a crush,

00:04I'm like, God, this book is great.

00:05And then when I'm reading a book and I do have a crush,

00:07I'm like, I wish he were here to see me reading this book.

00:16I wrote this song, Heat of the Summer, and I had a big crush.

00:20I found myself just having really nothing to do.

00:22And I thought, I don't like this person I've

00:26become in these two weeks where I have nothing to do,

00:28and I have a crush on this guy.

00:29I used to be so cool, and now I'm not anymore.

00:32I was like, I'm going to write about a crush,

00:34but I'm going to write about it from the perspective

00:36of being annoyed that I'm having one.

00:38So I'm crazy, that's usually not my thing.

00:44Bitch, I'm crazy, suspicious and insane.

00:48Can you blame me?

00:49Yeah, you made me this way.

00:52Now I'm in the trenches, fighting for my senses.

00:58I'm calling myself crazy.

01:00That's usually not my thing.

01:01I'm pretty analytical.

01:03I am an emotional person.

01:05I do act on feelings sometimes, but I would say I'm mostly thinking something through at least for a

01:10second before I send that text or get that double scoop or whatever.

01:15Stay up and I pace around, I pace around the room.

01:20Wake up and I'm thinking about, I'm thinking about you.

01:24Can't read or write or do what I like to do.

01:28I spend my days for 20 plays just thinking, what's he gonna do?

01:32That was true for me at the time.

01:35Up late at night, lamp lighting, no music on.

01:38He was often my first thought when I woke up and then there's the tone for the day.

01:42And he doesn't like you back.

01:44My life is a horror film.

02:03I don't always do this in my songs, but I just kept the melody of the first verse and

02:07did it for the second verse.

02:08I don't know.

02:08I just was grooving.

02:10But then I got that thing.

02:11It's like that illness, that disease, having a crush.

02:14And it changed me.

02:15Instead of thinking about Shakespeare or Robert De Niro or Martin Scorsese,

02:22I'm thinking about this guy and would he date me or not?

02:32The first one is more genuinely serious.

02:46Like, I think I look bad, so let me move that ring light just a little to the left.

02:51And then I think I look bad, so I take a hundred is more me thinking about how you'd think you'd

02:56take a hundred photos of yourself if you thought you looked really good.

02:58But I think the reality is you take a hundred photos of yourself if you think you look bad.

03:03Because if you got the shot, you got the shot.

03:05You know what I'm saying?

03:22If I like someone and he hasn't texted me back and I've got to take a shower,

03:27I always put my phone right on that counter.

03:29And I get in the shower and I do everything I need to do.

03:32And I'm also saying a prayer for the entirety of the shower that when I get out,

03:36there will be the text from him.

03:37Or it's not even that dramatic all the time.

03:39It's that I'm in the shower and I'm like,

03:41well, I can't look at my phone now, so maybe that's when he'll have texted me

03:46and I'll get out and there will be that text from him that's so underwhelming.

03:49That bridge is just a repeat of feelings that I've expressed throughout the song and I was

04:13sort of wishing that I could say something new there, but it just rolled off the tongue.

04:17And I was like, yeah, I'm tired. I don't want to keep thinking about this.

04:19And it was just sort of me winking at myself being like, I have not.

04:23Yeah, okay. It's all because of him. Cry me a river.

04:27But I do forgive you.

04:28As always, as I always do, because that's who I am.

04:31Now I'll listen to my playlists and pretend I'm you.

04:33Look at what I post and pretend I'm you.

04:35Aw, I'm sick and twisted and boring, but all I are so let me adore ya.

04:39I'm not what I used to be. And you don't want me, it's easy to see.

04:44And I'll move on eventually, but for now I'm taking pictures.

04:48I wrote up to basically the, but then I listen to my plays and pretend I'm you, that whole part.

04:53And I remember that just naturally flowing out of me and being like, that is too far.

04:58Should I shine a light on this thing that I think a lot of people do, which is look at their own

05:03Instagram profiles through the eyes of their crush? Or the playlist thing where I listen to music and

05:08pretend I'm in my crush's body and he's like, she's got good taste, but it's just true.

05:13I think the older I get, the less I do it, but I really did a lot in high school and college and yesterday.

05:19I'm taking thirst traps in the mirror in my room.

05:25I think I look bad, but it doesn't matter.

05:29I once read that some people's beauty can't be captured and he'll be sorry, happy ever after.

05:37I'm sure it was an Instagram quote.

05:40Some people's beauty moves.

05:41I saw that and I was like, makes sense to me now.

05:44Because I haven't always liked the way I look in pictures.

05:46I've spent most of my life seeing a photo of me and going, that's not what I look like.

05:50Instead of going, oh, I hate myself, sometimes I would, yes, have that feeling a little bit,

05:55but I had to always make it okay because it was every photo.

05:59And so I just started to tell myself, that's not what I look like.

06:02Then I saw that quote on Instagram about beauty moving.

06:05And I was like, oh, and that's also so poignant and true and completely about me.

06:10I just applied it to myself with great relief.

06:13The whole song's about taking thirst traps.

06:15And then at the end, the girl realizes she is beautiful.

06:18She just can't get a good selfie.

06:23This is such a fun song.

06:26It's weird that it ends on the down.

06:27I just was like, I want it to come back full force.

06:29So I told Ricky the next day, I was like, I want the song to come back full force.

06:33Without a moment of pause, he was like, sax solo.

06:35And I was like, okay.

06:37To me, it's like the valiant, gorgeous end that that song deserves,

06:42especially after the last line of it.

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