Drew Taggart

It's fun.

And then suddenly you're like, there it is.

I feel like when you make a song like that, you're so excited about it to play it and to be like, is this it?

Is this going to resonate with everybody?

But at the end of the day, I think whether or not it met the standard of success for us on a metric level, it hit the mark as far as a Chainsmoker song on every level.

That's one of my favorite songs of yours.

Yeah, thank you.

And I think that's a big part of what we've been re-exploring in the last year is dialing it back to the Chainsmoker fans and Chainsmoker sound.

Because I think going back to the AI stuff, there's so many tools out there right now, so much software, so many ideas, so many genres.

so much stuff happening every day that you almost have to constrain yourself a little bit to have success.

I forgot who was talking about this.

The guitar has been the exact same instrument for hundreds of years, and yet people are still finding new ways to play it and create sounds and feelings from it.

And I feel like we go into our studio sometimes and it's like, wow, we have 25 keyboards now.

Is art in a really bad place right now?

Generally, across the board, we have very few original movies being made.

Avengers 25.

Slop everywhere.

Everything's optimized for various algorithms.

Exactly.

What does that mean for art in general when anyone can do it and it's successful?