Alex Pall

Incredible musicians, but they've created this experience that's replicable, that people can tell, that people can rely on and tell their friends about and has great ethos.

And I think that's really interesting to think about as we're like, what does the rest of the Chainsmokers look like for us?

A lot of artists would probably struggle with this question, us included.

I'm trying to figure that out all of the time.

Part of me wants to just get out of my own way and just be like, fuck it.

I just have to make stuff.

There have been a couple of records.

We made this record called Don't Lie that our fans didn't connect to and didn't connect commercially.

It came out just, what, six months ago?

And when I hear that song, I'm like, fuck yeah.

I did the goddamn thing on that.

From a writing production as a pop song,

kid i'm like kim petras awesome artist sounds amazing on it the whole vibe of the record i just hear it i'm very proud of it but there's something about it that just didn't connect was it the marketing was it just like that song from us was it that song in general maybe that didn't have the essence of alex and i in it enough maybe it didn't feel like we meant it enough for some reason our fans didn't connect to that song

That other piece of the puzzle is what we're trying to figure out now.

Intentionality matters more than ever.

Your fans want to know that like you love this thing that you created in a world of slop.

How do you show them that?

Is it just the quality of the work?

I don't know.

I'm really confused about this part, especially in this day and age where I see artists that aren't us that have a different vibe or are from a different generation do it so effortlessly.