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Podcast Appearances
Their attention spans are so short.
I'm talking about music like in this moment.
This is just like I'm learning, too, because I'm like there's there's there's so much history and stuff that I've done in my career.
But just right now, it feels like there's a lot of factions that I'm understanding what works and what doesn't and why it does.
And it's I think labels are also understanding that, you know?
I've had my most successful records have been with unknown artists that are just really on their come up, you know, like Morgan Wallen when he first started or like Jesse Murph or like Moe on Lean On.
They were kind of like, I'm not gonna say Morgan Wallen was unknown, but compared to what he is now, he was unknown.
but they just gave me the attention as like my records, like, yo, I'm gonna invest in this.
That's really hard for a producer now.
Nobody really wants to give us records.
Like they're fighting to stay alive on their own careers.
So I've always like found new artists, like, oh, I can help you do this or help you do that.
If I go to like,
Taylor Swift was like, why would she do a solo record for me when she has a career and she has her timeline?
And her own people.
There's just so many bullets in the chamber you can shoot.
You have to really put your energy in something that you know is gonna work, you know?
yeah and it also seems like a lot of the songs you worked on like no one believed in at first and also they they may not have done well like the songs you talked about like where are you now did that one do well at first no that record was a complete flop out the gate i feel like but i think people liked the song the song's amazing i love this song well it came it came with there was so much politics that involved that song like
Bieber people don't realize this but at that point he was kind of like in a low point in his like life in his career he had like had been the the press has really hated him he had got all tatted up he had like got a I don't know in car races or something and just being crazy so people were like oh you know we want this clean cut we want this like pretty boy back again and like he had he hadn't had like the energy around him for a while so
just like in passing to scooter i was like look i was at a party like give us a record like whatever what do you have to lose let me try to make something crazy for you and um i was working with sunny skrillex and he also was you know the darling of like dance music and and and dubstep and this like hard aggressive sound that he just he was so perfect he was like