Summer may be over, but don’t worry fall is going to be even hotter.
From there a partnership blossomed.
“I was trying to push [Foo Fighters] sonically,” Kurstin says.
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“I got in there with the lush harmonies and brought some freaky sounds.”
While Kurstin was bringing the sounds, Grohl was bringing the delicious smoked meats via his very own barbecue.
“I’ve always been very good at helping other people finish their songs,” he says.
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But when it came to finishing his own?
“I was hard on myself in terms of the storytelling aspects of the lyrics.”
That story, told over ornate string arrangements and indie-pop melodies, examines the intersection of identity and culture.
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“I have a really complicated relationship with American music,” says the U.S.-born son of Iranian immigrants.
That’s why it took so long, the singer says of the delay between albums.
I’m not going to sacrifice time with my child.
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She returns this fall with a set that claws at every corner of the musical spectrum.
Tying it all together are her strikingly candid lyrics.
Says Fergie, There’s the pretty and the ugly; there’s the rage, the sad.
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They also dug deep with their subject matter.
“I wanted to ensure that this album showcased my voice,” the 25-year-old says.
“I enjoy it more now than I ever did,” Twain said of the process.
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He seemed into the sounds I was adding, so that got me really comfortable.
That meant drawing on everything from “psychedelic ’60s music” to “angular kraut-rock” to Peter Gabriel.
“And I just wanted to record better than I have before.
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I’ve never been that great of a recorder, [I’ve always been] better live.
“Oftentimes great things would happenthey would just burst out.
it’s possible for you to’t ignore them it’s possible for you to only comment on them.
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But don’t expect more of the same when it comes to her follow-up this fall.
explains Price, who’s signed to Jack White’s Third Man Records.
“It feels good to rock out a little bit,” she says.
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“There’s so many different kinds of great music out there.
[This] kind of fills in the sonic landscape of America.
Ware admits she was too focused on potential hits and what she thought people wanted from her.
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“I’d lost a bit of myself,” she says.
“That song feels really raw,” Ware says.
“I’m going to cry when I sing it.
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“This isn’t a record I could have made at the age of 20.
This is a record you make when you’velived.”
Says Clarkson, “Its nice to not always do the same thing over and over again.
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Ive never been afraid of that.
“I have stockpiles of ideas going back to the ’90s,” frontman Rivers Cuomo says.
“There’s material on the record that pulls from way back when.”
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But anyone hoping for a carbon copy of the seminal Blue Album sound will be surprised.
Cuomo even imposed some unusual lyrical restrictions on himself.
“On this album I prohibited the wordgirl,” he shares.
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It sent me off in some different directions.
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For the successor to 2015’sThe First Time, she wanted to hone her songwriting style.
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The album pulls from the ups and downs of her past two years.
experiments with dubstep and hip-hop.
“I’m all about love and coming together and forgiving.”
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“We’re reaching higher and further with each sound, but the lyrics are closer to the heart.
Says Khalifa, “My motivation was really just to keep people happy.
That’s where the inspiration comes from.
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But while Khalifa emphasizes the project’s positivity, he warns that the album isn’t all good vibes.
“And of course I get real on the album.
It was a process of me really putting all of my true feelings out there.
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“The timing never seemed right,” McGraw says.
“We didn’t want to do an album just because we could.”
So they waited to find the right cuts and are now ready to share their hard work.
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It better, says Hill, “because we’re only doing it once!
“That’s where the magic lives.
“I don’t know how she comes up with song lyric and melody ideas so quickly.
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She’s like no one else.”
No matter how painful, it’s worth the risk.
It’s been a chaotic writing period, but that gave this album a lot of fire.
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