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		<title>Actress Florence Pugh Releases Music as a Singer-Songwriter for the First Time</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[British Actress, Florence Pugh, has released her first set of performances as a singer-songwriter. &#8221;The Best Part&#8221; and &#8221;I Hate Myself&#8221; are two songs which are included on the soundtrack to her new film, A Good Person, which she stars in as the main character. Her character, Allison, is an aspiring musician whose career is set back as she is [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="p1">British Actress, Florence Pugh, has released her first set of performances as a singer-songwriter. <i>&#8221;The Best Part&#8221; </i>and <i>&#8221;I Hate Myself&#8221;</i> are two songs which are included on the soundtrack to her new film,<i> A Good Person</i>, which she stars in as the main character. Her character, Allison, is an aspiring musician whose career is set back as she is involved in a car accident which kills her future sister-in-law. The two songs are slow, sensitive-sounding ballads with a soft leading vocal.</p>
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<p class="p1">Florence Pugh spoke about the writing process for the two songs <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/24/florence-pugh-releases-first-songs-as-singer-songwriter">saying</a>, <i>“I wrote these songs for my character Allison in the movie to perform, but also as a way to process and digest her mindset and her low headspace.&#8221;</i> She continued, &#8216;<i>&#8216;It was unbelievably helpful and hard; I wanted a song to reflect the self-hatred she had for herself in a way that the audience can truly understand.”</i></p>
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<p class="p1">In a recent interview with <a href="https://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/a43419900/marvel-star-florence-pugh-first-music-singer-songwriter/"><span class="s1">Digital Spy</span></a>, Florence Pugh discussed writing the music for the soundtrack saying,<i> &#8220;I wrote one song when I read the script, just to process how this person could feel this, how you&#8217;d feel, what you would think about yourself. I think it was just so important that those songs were a discovery for her. They were something that she could finally admit to herself when she was in rehab, so everything about that was just so sweet and tender.&#8221;</i></p>
<p class="p1">She <a href="https://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/a43419900/marvel-star-florence-pugh-first-music-singer-songwriter/">continued </a><i>&#8220;I was able to record them away from the character and not on a squeaky piano in a rehab centre and not playing Allison, which was also great. So I feel like I&#8217;ve been able to write them for her and then perform them as her, and then perform them as me, which is rare.&#8221;</i></p>
<p class="p1">The score for the film was written by Bryce Dessner, who is a member of rock band The National and is well known for writing scores to films, such as <i>C&#8217;mon C&#8217;mon</i> and <i>The Revenant. </i>The soundtrack also features music from The Velvet Underground and Fenne Lily.</p>
<p class="p1">A Good Person was written and directed by Florence Pugh&#8217;s ex-partner Zach Braff and co-stars Morgan Freeman. Florence Pugh is also credited as a producer for the film. Pugh recently starred in the film, <i>Dont Worry Darling</i>, alongside British pop icon Harry Styles. The film gained a lot of attention and the two were highly praised for their performances in the film. Florence Pugh is set to star in some of Hollywood&#8217;s high profile film projects over the next year, including Marvel&#8217;s<i> Thunderbolt</i>, Christopher Nolan&#8217;s <i>Oppenheimer</i> and the sequel to the remake of <i>Dune</i>.</p>
<p class="p1"><i>A Good Person</i> was released in cinemas on March 24 and will be available to watch on Sky Cinema from April 28.</p>
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