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The standard response from radio back in those days is probably what it's like now days: it doesn't fit the format. And so that was a bit of a shock to us, because we were thinking 'hey what's wrong with this, this is actually us!'– Moana Maniapoto in an interview with Radio New Zealand, 26 March 2019
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