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FUZZY FEELINGS Straus takes comfort in her menagerie of pets, who include a two-yearold border collie named Raz; a cat; and several goldfish named after pop stars like Jazmine Sullivan, Adele, and Stefani Germanotta.

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Fiona Apple is one of her best friends in the industry. “She’s been an incredible North Star for me,” Straus says. They got matching tattoos in 2020, and one of Straus’ new songs is named after a lyric from Apple’s “I Know.”

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On the cover of Hold On Baby,

Straus poses with a barn owl. “She’s shrouding me with her wings, and I’m looking cunt and glam, obviously. Prince had his doves. I think the owl is mine.”