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One thing I think is a little funny about my and Ben’s trajectory at BMI is I was like “I… I think we’re gonna Kelly Clarkson this!”

And what I mean by that is – do you remember back in the days of the first season of American Idol? [Omg, I know right, so long ago. We were children!]

Anyway, so, Kelly Clarkson obviously won. She was incredible. And yet. She flew under the radar every week. At the time, everyone was all “Justin Guarini! Ryan Starr! Look at this person! Look at that person!” And somehow Kelly just kept quietly making it to the next round.

And I think that’s what we did.

We had a super strong class in general, which I loved. There was LOTS of strong work… And even in the midst of an amazing class of people, I felt like there were some standouts here and there of songs the BMI people just loooooooved and adored for one reason or another, and I don’t remember that happening much to us.

Also, we were out working a fair amount. I felt there were some people who were sort of “star students” or “popular,” and for various reasons, I don’t think that was really us. Haha. [Ben is pretty quiet, and I was going through some stuff.]

I felt we kept bringing strong work…. But we flew under the radar – pretty consistently strong every time, but the metaphorical producers weren’t making big packages for us/we weren’t on the cover of magazines and such.

And yet. Once we got to the end, we were looking at our songs and feeling preeeeeeetty darn good about them. And then I just thought “wait a hot second. Are we about to Kelly Clarkson this? – Be consistently strong, even if no one’s talking about us?

And now – we’re the next American Idol! 😉