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Ben Platt and Brandy Clark on Their Haunting Duet, ‘Treehouse,’ a Joint Summer Tour, and How Platt’s ‘Honeymind’ Album Expands the Queer Americana Space
In a joint Q&A, Ben Platt and Brandy Clark discuss their 'Treehouse' duet, and going out on tour behind Platt's Americana-leaning 'Honeymind' album.
Having the imprimatur of Cobb and Clark for the album, and the latter singer/composer for a summer tour, certainly doesn’t hurt as Platt expands beyond the devoted “Dear Evan Hanson” fan base to an audience not quite so strictly Broadway-bound. So I dove right in with him, and he challenged me in a great way to be as completely authentic as possible and accept warts and imperfections and the live quality of a lot of the music, which I think was just a really beautiful match for the type of songwriting that I brought to him. But I think more so as I started to write, one of the combinations that really was making me feel so inspired, excited and joyful was that crossroads that you’re talking about of this very introspective, softly romantic, narrative stuff that has a very particularly, expressly named queer bent.
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