Drew Taggart

Are we in a golden age of creation or is it different?

We work with artists all the time and they play us a song and it's like, oh, this is like a interpolation of a song.

And you're like, I have no problem with that stuff.

I think it can be really interesting.

But you're also like, it's already a hit.

So I think when you have an artist like Fred again or someone come along, I think it has even bigger impact than maybe in the past because that originality is so refreshing.

Such a good point.

I think even like the commonality between like a Fred and a Dochi and a Charlie.

These are people that have been grinding Dochi's video after she won the Grammys, went viral because she was fired from her job.

I'm just going to double down on music.

It was some crazy thing.

Charlie X has been writing songs for hit artists for like 15 years.

You know what I mean?

Just in the background waiting, almost like fine tuning everything, waiting for this moment.

And Fred similarly is literally a musical savant, but has been writing for Ed Sheeran and

huge songwriters in the background.

I mean, his story is equally as impressive.

And then you have that compared to like the TikTok artists that are in COVID that made a viral 15 seconds of a song, label signed them.

And then they're like, what did we just buy?

I don't know what this is.