How To Make Your Creativity Beat The Algorithm (Live Performance) - Dylan Gossett - #1155
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How did Dylan Gossett’s breakout hit “Coal” come to life?
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Tryna focus what's ahead Now when it Take the simple cattle moment. Put my mind at ease and take a girl who says she loves me to make me
What is I've been having trouble sleeping. The only thing I'm needing somewhere I came. Mm Sua irpética.
What are you believing? Cause I've been having trouble sleeping. The only thing I'm needing somewhere I can Uh Go I'm headed back to Austin. When I close my eyes That's funny.
Thank you. Dude. Yeah. Unbelievable. So good. Thank you very much. Great to see
you. That uh that one's about Austin, Texas, obviously. Very
timely.
Yeah.
Did you write most of Cole in twenty five minutes? Is that right? Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Cole Cole was written one one of the fastest ones I've probably ever written. Yeah. It uh it started I can kind of show you, so it it started just with uh Maybe not this exact chord progression, it was a little bit different. I might have an old video of it I could show you, but I think I almost I think it just started with kind of that hook. The let's say pressure makes diamonds hella hit. You know, I was like, that's that's great. That's a song. We gotta build around it. And uh and then yeah, verse by verse, and it was just I remember I was like had my phone typing on top of our dog kennel in the apartment at the time, and it was like right before we we went out. out with like some work friends and none of my friends knew my son like at all.
I didn't I don't know. I just don't go around telling people. And uh wrote wrote Cole went out and Julia my wife was just stoked on it. She was like, this is so sick. Um and she was just showing people like Snapchat videos of the song. She was like, you know, just what do y'all think about this? And they're like, Dylan, you sing? And I was like, cat's out of the bag, I guess. Uh and then didn't do anything with it for like A year or two. No way. No way. Um until You
sat on that you sat on a song that did like half a billion streams for Yorks. Well
I just I wasn't I wasn't I wasn't on socials, like I wasn't putting anything out. Uh I I I didn't do anything until we were on a camping trip um with my buddy Caden and his now wife MK and my wife and I Julia. And uh I brought my guitar and was just playing some songs and Caden has like the best ear. Of anyone I know. He's like an AR that's not doesn't work in AR. And he heard Cole and he's like, please sing it again. He've like voice memoed it. And he's like, You got to do something. You have to do something. And my wife was like, Dylan, you should just post on TikTok. And I was like, Well, I'm not, you know, I'm not a TikToker. I was like, I honestly can't stand it. Like, I don't I just not my it's not my thing.
Um, but yeah, I started doing it, and then Cole became this thing, which is insane.
One of my buddies I was best man at his wedding, godfather to his kid, and he was playing We were at a friend's house who has a karaoke machine and I don't even know why there was a guitar there and he'd been doing exactly the same thing. I bullied him, bullied him.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did Dylan Gossett’s breakout hit “Coal” come to life?
0:00–11:56
2
What lessons did Dylan learn about avoiding the pitfalls of the music industry?
11:56–22:40
3
Why does Dylan believe unpolished, raw music feels more authentic?
22:40–34:03
4
Is country music experiencing a renaissance, and what does that mean for artists?
34:03–44:34
5
How can artists tell if a song is genuinely good or just algorithm‑friendly?
44:34–55:10
6
What challenges arise when trying to stay successful after an overnight hit?
55:10–1:06:30
7
How does Dylan’s songwriting process differ from the Nashville machine?
1:06:30–1:16:34
8
Why should artists choose hard, meaningful work over easy, forgettable wins?
1:16:34–1:29:01
Speakers
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