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E veryone who worked on Jae Stephens ’ debut album Audacity received a mandatory assignment: to watch Coyote Ugly . The 2000 film stars Piper Perabo as Violet, an aspiring songwriter with big city dreams and a gig at a bar that’s like a boot camp for building self-confidence. “She just wants to be a star,” Stephens says on a sweltering morning in New York.

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