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Norah Jones

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

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Norah Jones is saying that although she doesn't feel sad herself, her music often sounds sad because she has always liked slow, emotional songs. She explains that even as a child, she preferred listening to gentle, sentimental tunes over other types of music.

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