HP #50: Le Ren: "Die Inside"

Le Ren almost threw this song away. On this episode of The Hardest Part with Kieron Banerji, she opens up "Die Inside" from her album Don't Be Funny Without Me, a song that was easy to write but hard to sing, about a crush that was never going to be reciprocated, and the strange courage it takes to perform the plain, un-metaphored truth.

It's a conversation about honesty in songwriting: why singing it live once made her "feel like a loser," how Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me" gave her permission to be vulnerable, why she tests every song live before recording.

Guest: Le Ren

Host: Kieron Banerji

Song: Die Inside

Creative: Callum Baker

Audio: Max Walker

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00:00 "Easy to write, hard to sing"

01:51 Writing the truth, not the revenge song

03:21 Bonnie Raitt & choosing to be vulnerable

04:55 The hard part: making it public