Time stamp indicates this was just published but I thought they put out a piece before.
Quote:You said before that you co-wrote almost every song on ‘Listen Up!’ Have you always considered yourself a songwriter first and foremost?
Well as far as co-writing, I totally jumped in, but I’ve always been a songwriter myself — I mean, poetry, poetry slam, melodies. Things have always come to me very easily, and if I’m inspired or if I just actually take the time to sit down and write, it’s very easy for me. So it was really pretty easy to get so many songs so quickly because I was actually given every day to get down in the studio with a different person and create something different. But I actually wrote and recorded each song on one day — it was very quick. Most of the demos I kept the vocal on, even if we just thought it was a scratch for the day, I actually ended up keeping them because I liked capturing the energy and the vibe of the song as I wrote it.
Do you have a track on the album that you feel particularly attached to?
A lot of different ones for different reasons honestly. I have my dad playing on four of them, playing guitar. It’s really cool! So all those four tracks that he played on I absolutely love. There’s one that me and him and the producer who I wrote it with, Rob Kleiner, we all loved that one. There’s just different songs with different vibes to them, but that’s one of those that just has something really, really cool about it. We talk about a lot of different subjects, but I really like the ones that take you somewhere and are relatable. There’s a song called ‘Wonderland’ that it feels like it’s from a different time, like new age Motown. It’s just a lovey dovey tune that listeners can easily relate to.
I also read that you worked with B.o.B on the song ‘Oh My.’ What was that like?
Yeah! I actually haven’t met him yet, but we put down that track and we were looking at what we might want and filled him in on it and he was all about it. It sounds great! I love it, it has a very rompy kind of Motown sound again. And I just needed somebody so cool and slick to fill that little spot, and he did such a great job.
Are there any other collaborations on the album?
No, the rest is just me and most of the backgrounds are me, too. I love like super harmony and everything. There’s a couple that I have busbee and another writer, John Green, just doing some little like background vocals, like on the song ‘Wasting Tears.’
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