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  • Zedd | Audacy Check In | 8.28.24

    Zedd | Audacy Check In | 8.28.24
    Aug 28 2024
    Following the release of his summer singles singles "Out of Time” featuring Bea Miller and “Lucky” featuring Remi Wolf, and ahead of dropping his forthcoming album, Telos, out August 30, Zedd checked in with Audacy’s Mike Adam at the Hard Rock Hotel in New York to chat all about both, plus a whole lot more. Curious about how the final work comes together, Mike asked, “Were you able to get in studio with the majority of these people or does that just not happen that much anymore?” “It depends,” Zedd admitted. “What I will very frequently do is I will ask singers to record a little demo for me just so I can feel the tone on a record and see if this is something that I think will fit.” Adding, “Now, when it matters, I will usually be in the studio and record them.” “I think that's one of my strengths,” Zedd continued, “to get the best out of a singer and to make them feel comfortable and confident to sing they're heart out. So when it matters, when I record the final vocal, I will in 99% of cases, record the singers myself.” Admittedly very demanding, and the type of producer to want to get as many takes to have the most amount of options possible, Zedd said, “Every singer temporarily hates me at the end of a session and I typically will stop just before the voice gives up. But the reason is because in the past I recorded a song where I had to have a singer come back to sing one singular word and I don't want to do that. Honestly, I do it for for the singer because I want them to be super happy.” “I record an obscene amount of takes of everything in octaves and doubles and harmonies. But then in every case, when I then send them the final result, they're always so happy.” Zedd recalled working with Bea Miller in the studio on his new album’s first single, as a prime example of a demanding studio sesh. “I think Bea Miller was one of the artists that I've probably pushed the hardest because the song is not easy to sing and it's in a really high range and she already was kind of unsure if she could do it.” “I knew she could do it without a question,” he continued, “but I think there's so many vocals, vocal parts, and octaves… that like we really went up until the voice gave up.” Facetiously adding, “I think she still to this day has severe PTSD of recording with me.” “She's funny because she's so good and she's such an incredible singer but she doesn't think of herself that way. I mean, she's very humble about her voice, but genuinely saved the song we did together because she brought an energy to the song that really was missing.” Mike then recalled a time after Zedd’s 2018 hit track “The Middle” came out, there were many headlines reporting that “there were 5,000 demos from everybody from Camilla Cabello to Demi Lovato, Bebe Rexha,” for the song, that ultimately went on to feature Maren Morris. Referencing Zedd’s earlier comment, Mike inquired if it’s a regular occurrence for the producer to “have people record these demos… where you're shopping around a song?” “Sometimes I bring a song to 80% and the only missing link is the final vocal and I just have a demo,” Zedd expressed. “And then it can get tricky and either nobody wants to sing it or everybody wants to sing it. Like in the case of ‘The Middle,’ where everybody wanted to be a part of it. But I didn't feel like anybody had everything that I wanted.” When it comes to his forthcoming album Telos, Zedd revealed, that it “has much more been a case of me getting in the room with the singers and just working through it and figuring things out and doing it together.” Later on adding, “But yeah, it depends, sometimes I do shop for singers and the only way to do it properly is for everybody to record a little bit of a demo.” “Sometimes that turns into like a full blown production and sometimes it turns into people being disappointed because they don't end up on the song and they spend time recording it. That happens unfortunately.” However, just because that particular song and artist combo didn’t work out, Zedd noted its not a hopeless cause. “The real ones, I still work with them, the ones that know that it might not be the one but another song.” Revealing that was actually the case on Telos, “I actually got to work with the people that I for so long wanted to work with,” Zedd said. Before concluding the conversation, being that they were in the Hard Rock Artist Lounge, and the Hard Rock is known for its unique collection of items. Mike inquired what Zedd’s contribution would be. We can guarantee its not what you’d think. To find out and catch more of the convo, listen to the entire interview above. Words by Maia Kedem Interview by Mike Adam
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  • Katy Perry | Audacy Check In | 8.26.24

    Katy Perry | Audacy Check In | 8.26.24
    Aug 26 2024

    On the precipice of her brand new era, Katy Perry checked in with Audacy’s Bru to chat all about her upcoming performance plans, as well as receiving the Video Vanguard Award at the MTV VMAs, reflecting on everything she’s accomplished, and more.

    By bidding adieu to her American Idol judging days, Katy has been able to make time and space for other things. "We're developing a big show. I'm going to be playing big, big shows on the album release on September 20 I'll be in Rio de Janeiro and playing Rock in Rio, and it's like over 100,000 people," Katy shared. "And then I get to go to Australia to play the Australian Football League game. It's kind of like the Super Bowl there, but their version of it.”

    But before all that Katy will be attending the MTV VMAs to receive the Video Vanguard Award, revealing, “I get to just do a celebratory show,” where we’ll “get to hear the familiar songs and be introduced to some new ones.”

    While Katy’s Vegas residency experience is great to have under her belt, the singer expressed how “totally different” it is than a tour, when it comes to coming up with creative concepts for the show. Explaining, “because with a tour show you have to move, you're on the go every single day. Vegas, you actually get to play with more toys and there's less restraints.”

    “But… we’re trying, we're figuring some things out,” she continued. “I'm just excited to go out into the world again. It's been a minute… 2018 was my last tour. Then everything was on pause, and then I had my child and I was raising a whole human being very responsible for it, wanted to get it right. So far so good,” Katy jokingly added.

    “I want to go tour and visit all of my fans who have come out so hard, and so supportive, and they have ridden so hard for me and, not to like be cheesy, but we have really loved each other for lifetimes,” Katy noted, plugging her latest single “LIFETIMES.”

    “The truth is I’ve grown up with them and we've grown up together and we've kind of leaned on each other. I've seen photos of them when they're 13, and now 26, 28… It's amazing, they all have lives, families, some of them and it's so cute, it’s adorable and I really appreciate it. So I got to go give my love out and that's what I'm going to go do.”

    For those of us, like Bru, who started listening to Katy in our formidable pre-teen/teenage years, we truly have grown up with her, and she’s grown up with us. Reflecting on what it’s like coming from her Warped Tour and “I Kissed a Girl” days to now receiving the Vanguard Award and reaching that icon status, Katy said, “I don't know… I mean, I still crowd surf… Look, I just, I’ve got some fun toys to play with now, and I’m very proud of everything I accomplished, and I really don't feel like I have anything to prove.”

    “I’m creating from this abundance space and this artistic space… I said I always wanted to make a dance pop record, and so I feel like I've kind of checked that bucket list off for me. And there's a couple of records that I have in my mind that I still want to make, and I'll just go along that process if I get the opportunity to… This is a part of my purpose,” she went on to note, “this is a part of my vision for myself.”

    Katy went on to talk about the calculated risk she took jumping 15-20 feet out of a helicopter in her “Woman’s World” music video. A risk, she revealed, her beau Orlando Bloom, wasn’t too keen on.

    She also gabbed about her love and appreciation for lint rollers, and shared a special message to her fans listening, saying, “I just want to tell them I love them. I’m so excited to see them around the world. If you wanna have a fun dance party or if you want your spirits lifted, I think 143 will do the trick.”

    Before closing out the convo, since she’ll no longer be guiding aspiring singers on American Idol, Bru asked Katy to offer up “advice to anyone” that wants to make it on the singing competition or just make it in music. To hear what she had to say and more, listen to Katy’s entire Check In above.

    Words by Maia Kedem Interview by Bru
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  • Coldplay's Chris Martin | Audacy Check In | 8.23.24

    Coldplay's Chris Martin | Audacy Check In | 8.23.24
    Aug 23 2024
    Joining host Bru for a special Audacy Check In today is Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, giving us details about the band’s forthcoming 10th studio album, Moon Music, their current record-breaking world tour, and more on the release day of the band's brand new single, "WE PRAY." It’s a bright and shiny Friday for Coldplay fans with the arrival of their new track, "WE PRAY," the band’s collaboration with UK rapper Little Simz, Nigerian Afrobeats superstar Burna Boy, Palestinian-Chilean R&B phenomenon Elyanna and chart-topping Argentine TINI, from 2024's highly-anticipated follow-up to 2021’s Music Of The Spheres set to arrive on October 4, Moon Music. Things are certainly coming together quickly, as the band just revealed the tracklist for the new offering just last week. Pre-orders for the upcoming release -- which will set new standards for sustainability, with each LP made from 100% recycled plastic bottles (nine per record) -- are available now on EcoCD, EcoRecord LP, and digital download. “’WE PRAY’ sort of wrote itself like some of the good songs do,” Chris tells us of how the new single came about. “In Taiwan, in the middle of the night, I woke up and the song was in my head, and I don't know where it came from. So the sound of it sort of dictated itself and that's all. I just sort of followed the road map that it said.” When choosing to include features on any project, he says, “You have to let the song decide; the song sort of says what it needs, and I think that the song ‘WE PRAY’ probably arrived from wherever it arrived from because I've been thinking a lot about all of these conflicts and people that hate each other. We're all praying for the same things, and we’d probably all get along if you just sat down long enough. I think that was the field into which it landed, and then it felt very natural that I wouldn't do all the verses or wouldn't sing it all on my own.” “It felt like it's a song about different types of people, so we should have different types of people singing it,” he explains. “Burna Boy, Elyanna, TINI, Little Simz, they're all from different continents and different languages, and that's what just felt really right.” Coming up on the band’s tenth studio album, Bru wondered what Chris thinks a pre-“Parachutes” era version of himself would think of the success the band has seen over the years. “It's funny, because maybe you have this in your own life, or athletes have it,” he says, “You have what's in front of you, and then a sense of where you're going in the bigger picture, and you also become more and more aware that everything you're doing and have done is all a gift. You're sort of doing it, but sort of not doing it too. Everything is given. So, I think the younger version of me would be surprised,” he admits. At the same time, he acknowledges by paraphrasing Liam Neeson, “I don't know why I got given this particular set of specialist skills. So, yeah, I think it'd be a mixture of, ‘Yeah, that sounds about right,’ or ‘No way!’” Music continues to inspire and surprise Chris as “infinite and unknowable like life itself,” Chris says. “I think as some people, as they get older claim to know less and less, and I think that's how I feel about music,” he adds, which has become, “more and more of a mystery, and more and more amazing and magical.” “You realize you're just so lucky to be able to do it,” he says, “and there's so many great young people coming through -- and older music you haven't heard. If you stay a fan, there's more and more things to be fans of -- which in itself is inspiring and humbling.” As genres bend and mesh together with fans’ tastes, Martin explains, “I feel like music -- if I can speak in a boring way for a minute -- music kind of shows where culture could go in terms of how humans work. If you think about the fact that the first gay people that were really accepted was in music, the first place where racial diversity became totally normal was in music. Maybe [with] this sort of, ‘no genres,’ there's no us and them in music… and I feel that's such a healthy place for us all to head towards.” “What's so beautiful about the Olympics,” Chris believes, “is that it's a healthy amount of ‘us and them,’ but it's not really a serious ‘us and them,’ it's enough to make the whole thing interesting. But ultimately, it's one massive collaboration between people who are supposed to hate each other, right? And a big concert is like that too. A big concert these days is one of the only peaceful places in the world where thousands of people just hang out together without caring who's what. And that's what the Olympics does, and I think that's why we all love watching these things -- because it shows, ‘Oh, this is no problem here.’” “One thing that's important to remember in sport is, you need the opposition,” he adds. “You can't have the...
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