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Afternoons with Zweli on 947 · 18 May 2026 · 8m
Speaker 1: Afternoons wo'dswelly on nine four. Speaker 2: Seven, dropping all your favorite afternoon beats from twelve to three. Speaker 3: From side just cut, Doude and love. Speaker 2: It's one of the greatest ballads of all time from one of the greatest voices Speaker 2: ever. It's Christina Aguilera with Hurt on nine four seven, a single number two from Speaker 2: her back to Basics album Medina and the Dead Mass remix of You and I Speaker 2: ahead of that one Zarah Lawson. Speaker 1: She's spoken about how she. Speaker 2: Was inspired by that particular record that we just played. Hurt by Christina Aguilera. She's Speaker 2: speaking to Rolling Stone, and this is what she had to say about it. Speaker 3: I love a ballad. Speaker 4: I feel like I used to sing so many ballads, like it has really shaped Speaker 4: me and the kind of like singer I am. And I feel like I don't Speaker 4: really do that many ballads, but maybe I should. Maybe I should do some more Speaker 4: ballads because sometimes in pop music, I feel like the vocals gets a bit like Speaker 4: not hit him, but it could be a bit distractive from having like an amazing Speaker 4: production and there's like so much going on. I feel like in a ballad, it's Speaker 4: about the voice and it's about the words and the delivery of that and hurt Speaker 4: really like it, like cut me like a knife, like when I heard that for Speaker 4: the first time. And Christina Aguilera is also one of my like vocalist heroes and
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