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Audrey Hobert Knows What She’s Doing

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By Leah Lu Audrey Hobert doesn’t want to be in on the joke. If the saying goes, “We’re not laughing at you, we’re laughing with you,” the 26-year-old singer-songwriter is on a whole other level: We’re laughing, and she’s watching from above, smugly brushing her hands off, looking at all she’s made. Much has been said about Hobert’s music since she showed up on the scene less than two years ago: It’s self-referential, confessional, stream-of-consciousness, relatable. And she’s told her come-up story enough times to have the SparkNotes version of the script “down pat.” It goes something like this: As a child, she loved pop music and was a dancer — “I felt rhythm in my bones from a young age” — but in high school, she decided that being a writer was actually cooler. “Even though I felt like a performer, I more so felt like I wanted to be the person who was building the world that people would perform,” she recalls.…

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