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Diplo

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1464 total appearances

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Behind The Wall
How Diplo Became BTS & BLACKPINK's Music Producer (Ep. 36)

Their attention spans are so short.

Behind The Wall
How Diplo Became BTS & BLACKPINK's Music Producer (Ep. 36)

I'm talking about music like in this moment.

Behind The Wall
How Diplo Became BTS & BLACKPINK's Music Producer (Ep. 36)

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.

Behind The Wall
How Diplo Became BTS & BLACKPINK's Music Producer (Ep. 36)

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.

Behind The Wall
How Diplo Became BTS & BLACKPINK's Music Producer (Ep. 36)

And it's I think labels are also understanding that, you know?

Behind The Wall
How Diplo Became BTS & BLACKPINK's Music Producer (Ep. 36)

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.

Behind The Wall
How Diplo Became BTS & BLACKPINK's Music Producer (Ep. 36)

They were kind of like, I'm not gonna say Morgan Wallen was unknown, but compared to what he is now, he was unknown.

Behind The Wall
How Diplo Became BTS & BLACKPINK's Music Producer (Ep. 36)

but they just gave me the attention as like my records, like, yo, I'm gonna invest in this.

Behind The Wall
How Diplo Became BTS & BLACKPINK's Music Producer (Ep. 36)

That's really hard for a producer now.

Behind The Wall
How Diplo Became BTS & BLACKPINK's Music Producer (Ep. 36)

Nobody really wants to give us records.

Behind The Wall
How Diplo Became BTS & BLACKPINK's Music Producer (Ep. 36)

Like they're fighting to stay alive on their own careers.

Behind The Wall
How Diplo Became BTS & BLACKPINK's Music Producer (Ep. 36)

So I've always like found new artists, like, oh, I can help you do this or help you do that.

Behind The Wall
How Diplo Became BTS & BLACKPINK's Music Producer (Ep. 36)

If I go to like,

Behind The Wall
How Diplo Became BTS & BLACKPINK's Music Producer (Ep. 36)

Taylor Swift was like, why would she do a solo record for me when she has a career and she has her timeline?

Behind The Wall
How Diplo Became BTS & BLACKPINK's Music Producer (Ep. 36)

And her own people.

Behind The Wall
How Diplo Became BTS & BLACKPINK's Music Producer (Ep. 36)

There's just so many bullets in the chamber you can shoot.

Behind The Wall
How Diplo Became BTS & BLACKPINK's Music Producer (Ep. 36)

You have to really put your energy in something that you know is gonna work, you know?

Behind The Wall
How Diplo Became BTS & BLACKPINK's Music Producer (Ep. 36)

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

Behind The Wall
How Diplo Became BTS & BLACKPINK's Music Producer (Ep. 36)

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

Behind The Wall
How Diplo Became BTS & BLACKPINK's Music Producer (Ep. 36)

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