Alex Pall

us primarily alex i mean we don't have to go into the history of how we built the chain smokers and how instrumental alex's thoroughness and being in touch with people has been to our success but just being the partner that like we see every artist wishing they had at a label

I mean, it's always different.

And we've done tons of collabs.

We've worked with tons of writers, tons of producers.

We're kind of always collaborating with people.

And it's always your job is to get into the room with this person that hopefully you have mutual respect for each other's music.

You see some kind of vision that your sounds could work together or you have some great idea around what the song could be together, whatever.

There's some basis for you guys doing a session together, hopefully.

Your job as like a great songwriter, producer, just artist is like, how do we get on the same page as quickly as possible?

Which is kind of a fascinating thing about songwriting that is like, you get in the room with someone and sometimes I try to preempt this.

Like I try to figure out

where this person is at before we get together.

I think Alex and I just being the type of people we are, like we don't have a lot of time and we want to make the most out of every session.

Having three beat starts of an idea, which could just be like a small piece of music, chords that feel a certain type of way or a vocal that's really great of the drop or the dance parts, like not great.

And maybe that'd be great if that person came and did the drop.

And this goes both ways.

Typically, we're pretty specific about the lyrics.

We like to write them.

And Jungle actually is one of the only songs recently that we did not write.

I don't think I wrote anything on that top line of that song.