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        <title><![CDATA[How the ‘Bachelor: Listen to Your Heart’ winners completed an album in quarantine]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="embed-youtube" ><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/onJPM7uGMx0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" width="600" height="315"></iframe></span></p><p>Having balanced a blossoming romance while competing on &#8220;The Bachelor presents: Listen to Your Heart,&#8221; musicians Chris Watson and Bri Stauss knew completing an album in quarantine would be another obstacle they could conquer together.</p><p>&#8220;We had some of the most difficult musical experiences with each other on the show, so we just treated this as yet another challenge that we&#8217;re going to come out on the other end with something that we really love,&#8221; Watson recently told Page Six.</p><p>On Monday, Watson, 30, and Stauss, 28, were named the first-ever winners of &#8220;The Bachelor&#8217;s&#8221; musical spinoff, <strong>which featured couples performing weekly</strong> in front of a rotating, star-studded panel.</p><p>For this week&#8217;s grand finale, Watson and Stauss impressed the judges &#8212; including Rita Wilson, Jewel and Taye Diggs &#8212; with their renditions of Ed Sheeran&#8217;s &#8220;Give Me Love&#8221; and Adele&#8217;s &#8220;Make You Feel My Love.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t until we were waiting for the elevator to go onstage and we were like, &#8216;Shoot, we really don&#8217;t have choreography. We don&#8217;t want to just stand there and be boring. Maybe I should do this and you should do that,&#8217; and we figured it out right before,&#8221; Stauss explained.</p><figure id="attachment_5257525"  class="wp-caption alignnone aligncenter"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/05/51820-chris-bri-bachelor-listen-to-your-heart.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/05/51820-chris-bri-bachelor-listen-to-your-heart.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/05/51820-chris-bri-bachelor-listen-to-your-heart.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Bri and Chris perform on &#8220;The Bachelor present: Listen to Your Heart&#8221;</span><span class="credit">ABC</span></figcaption></figure><p>Watson and Stauss now have a self-titled debut album &#8220;Chris and Bri,&#8221; a 10-track record featuring original music and covers, including Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8220;Lover,&#8221; <strong>which they also performed on the show</strong>.</p><p>&#8220;There was something very magical on stage that night, and it just felt, it was very much us,&#8221; Stauss said of her favorite performance with Watson.</p><p>As for the album itself, Utah native Stauss and Los Angeles-based Watson &#8212; who are quarantining separately &#8212; were tasked to record their elements in different locations amid the coronavirus crisis.</p><p><span class="embed-youtube" ><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/A8wSHoIOMeM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" width="600" height="315"></iframe></span></p><p>&#8220;I had two weekends before quarantine that I was able to travel to LA to be with the [Final Rose] band while they recorded the covers,&#8221; Stauss said, noting when the shutdown occurred they &#8220;had to start and finish everything through FaceTime.&#8221;</p><p>She continued, &#8220;We recorded in different studios in different states, and in about two months.&#8221;</p><p>Despite being apart, Watson and Stauss are in constant contact.</p><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re friends, we&#8217;re romantic partners, we&#8217;re music partners and business partners, so every single day we talk about all four of those things. Sometimes it&#8217;s one more than the other,&#8221; Watson said. &#8220;We are constantly in contact.&#8221;</p><p>Stauss added she longs for the day when she and Watson can reunite.</p><p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t wait and I&#8217;m dreaming about it,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Maybe we&#8217;ll film it.&#8221;</p><p><strong>&#8220;Chris and Bri&#8221;</strong> is available now.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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