Leah Williamson reveals music tastes: Enrique cassettes to Bieber
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- Leah Williamson said her earliest music memory was playing Hero by Enrique Iglesias and How Do I Live by LeAnn Rimes on a cassette player with fuzzy foam headphones "over and over" as a child.
- Williamson revealed she can no longer listen to Where Are Ü Now by Jack Ü featuring Justin Bieber because it was overplayed in the Arsenal changing room.
- Williamson named Three Lions by Baddiel & Skinner & Lightning Seeds as her favourite football song because of the 2022 Euros, though The Angel (North London Forever) by Louis Dunford now gives her goose bumps.
- Williamson recalled crying at a New Year's Eve party at age 16 when Dancing on My Own by Robyn came on, then ringing her mum to come pick her up.
- Williamson said seeing Norah Jones sing Come Away With Me at a gig with her granny changed her life, noting the older crowd "hardly had their phones out" and realising "this is what music is about."
- England women's next World Cup qualifying game is against Greece on 9 October, per the article.
- Leah Williamson is an ambassador for Cadbury, the article notes.
Why it matters: With England women facing Greece in World Cup qualifying on 9 October, Williamson uses a music-themed Q&A — published in her role as a Cadbury ambassador — to share personal anecdotes that cut through her captaincy image, from a Robyn-induced exit at a teenage NYE party to Bieber saturation in the Arsenal dressing room.
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