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Audacy Check-In

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  • Listen as our favorite artists Check In for candid conversations about music and more.
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  • Tate McRae | Audacy Check In | 9.26.24

    Tate McRae | Audacy Check In | 9.26.24
    Sep 26 2024
    On the heels of releasing “It’s ok I’m ok,” her latest hit in a procession of many, Tate McRae checked in with Audacy’s Bru to chat all about having fun working on what’s next, her focused studio session behavior that inspired the lyrics to her new bop, the vulnerability of the writing process, and a whole lot more. Sharing that “creating the world of my next” project is what she’s currently having the most fun with right now, Tate noted, “my next songs and all the music videos and the treatments, I love that part, it’s one of my favorite parts. So, it's been fun to start to carve that world out and see what it looks like.” Of course, our first introduction to this “new world” arrived earlier this month with the release of “It’s ok, I’m ok,” another banger Tate can add to her ever growing collection. The track which lyrically assures her ex’s new boo that she’s more than fine with no longer being with a walking red flag, actually “started from a conversation of me being like, 'It's ok I'm ok' - and we were like, 'That would be a crazy pop song,’ Tate previously told Rolling Stone. That conversation, as she went on to reveal to Capital Breakfast's Jordan North, Chris Stark and Sian Welby, earlier this month, actually had nothing to do with relationship woes at all. "I have this thing in [music writing] sessions where I just won't eat unless I finish the song. It's honestly just like if I'm in the studio I have to finish the song and then I'll eat my meal, I can't eat in the middle of writing," she explained to the UK radio morning show. "So then Ilya and Savan would be like, 'Hey do you want food?' and then everyday for like two weeks straight I'd say, 'It's okay, I'm okay’” Tate revealed. "Then we were like, 'We should just put that down as a joke', and then it ended up turning into a song.” Expanding more on the reasoning for her focused studio session behavior during her chat with Bru, Tate said it’s “because you never know when you're going to crack the song, like you're sitting there sometimes it can be like nine hours before you crack the best idea." In addition to the delayed gratification of a meal, Tate also isn’t a fan of yapping in the studio. “I mean, a lot of people treat sessions like a yap fest,” McRae said, noting “it’s me and Amy Allen, who's an unbelievable songwriter,” that prefer quiet creative spaces. “She did ‘Greedy’ with me, and she's in the majority of my album… Me and her have the same thing… everyone yaps around us and we're just laser focused.” Sharing why her new track didn’t make the cut for her sophomore album, Think Later, Tate said, “I think like the beat and how it sounded to me, wasn't the sonic of the last album. I don't think I was ready to feel, or do a chorus like that, or even just make a song like that until this year. I was waiting for that kind of beat,” she added. “I needed to do the right video with it, the right performance with it.” Reflecting on how crazy it is that it’s been a year since “Greedy” and Think Later came out, Tate expressed, “this year has flown by so fast… like that feels like literally yesterday.” “Well, it's a really vulnerable process, being in the studio. And the people around you affects your product the most,” Tate admitted. “Because I'm a pretty private person. Like I usually walk in and I’ll summarize everything into like five words… I will not spill like my whole life, you know. I'm so not like that, where I would just completely open up to people. But if I get really comfortable, then I want to actually talk about the real stuff. So it just takes time to find those people that you gel with," she says of finding the right team. "And also like the production of it too… you have to trust who you're in the room with and that they're going to make it sound like how you want it to.” Tate also talked about having an athletes mindset to her career, the performer persona that takes over when she’s onstage, and when IRL Tate sometimes breaks through. Tate, who is part of the impressive Audacy We Can Survive 2024 lineup alongside Justin Timberlake, Benson Boone, Khalid, New Kids On The Block and Isabel LaRosa, taking place this weekend, Saturday, September 28, 2024 at Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, also opened up about the topic of mental health. As We Can Survive continues Audacy’s mission to support mental health via I’m Listening and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) -- because talk has the power to save lives. Sharing what she does when she needs a mental health break, because sometimes being a pop star can be hard, Tate revealed, “Actually, the other day, I literally walked outside and sat in the grass. I was like, I need to realize that — number one thing always is just like finding gratitude in every situation. If you're not happy or something is stressing you ...
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    13 mins
  • Halsey | Audacy Check In | 9.11.24

    Halsey | Audacy Check In | 9.11.24
    Sep 11 2024
    Halsey checked in with Audacy’s Mike Adam at the Hard Rock Hotel in New York, to chat all about her new single “EGO,” forthcoming album The Great Impersonator, arriving October 25, and more. With her 30th birthday coming up, Halsey started the conversation off by reflecting on just how much has happened in the last decade, both personally and professionally. “I'm excited for this birthday… because it means a lot to me. It's been a hard couple of years and I'm about to turn 30. It's a big, big birthday. It's also, you know, 10 years since I put out my first album, Badlands." She continued, “so… that decade from being 19 turning 20, putting out my first album, now being 29 turning 30 about to put out my fifth album. It all just feels mystical… feels like a lot of synchronicity in that.” As for feeling her age, Halsey admitted, “I’ve felt 30 since I was like 15. I’m catching up now." “Sometimes, there's certain people in this life who are the age they are and then they stay that way… Like my mom, for example, is just perpetually 21. She had me when she was 20, and has just been 21 for as long as I've known her. She's 51 and she is like tatted up, tongue piercing, like super cool girl, but she just gives off the energy of someone who's like 21. I've been 35 since I was born.” Halsey who outwardly loves Halloween, also shared she has some costume ideas for this year, but didn’t feel like sharing them. Noting, “I’m a big gatekeeper about Halloween,” not wanting to give any ideas away. “I love Halloween, every couple of years I throw a huge Halloween party in LA, and we do it to benefit My Friend's Place, which is a charity organization and a resource center for unhoused youth in Los Angeles. It’s super awesome, super close to my heart, and I love it,” Halsey expressed. “I prepare for my costume for like months.” Ultimately deciding to share her idea after all, Halsey revealed the costume idea she wants to do with her son. “I really want to do The Shining, and I want to get him on his little tricycle as Danny, and I want to be Shelley Duvall and I just want to like take these pictures with my creepy little kid on a tricycle and his hair is like the perfect, he's got those long bangs.” Naturally shifting the conversation from Halloween to parenthood, Mike asked Halsey if having a child has changed her relationship with her parents. “Oh my gosh, I'm actually really glad you asked me this question because there's a lot of this on the album actually,” Halsey answered. “So when I was writing The Great Impersonator, I was going through a lot in my personal life, a lot of those changes were becoming a new mom, and I also, I got really sick. I got the kind of sick that makes you think about your life and look at it in that way,” Halsey reflected. “I started thinking about my childhood, and there's a lot of songs on this album that kind of touch on that, touch on my relationship with my parents.” Noting that “one in particular” is “just about watching my mom grow older. Like I said, she's perpetually 21 to me, just watching her age… it’s like this cognitive dissonance, like your brain can't compute.” “In the song, I talk about when I was a kid listening, hearing my dad, like make a snide remark about her or like, you know, me and my dad kind of ganging up on my mom. I wanted his approval so much and I did it at the cost of like kind of ganging up on her. And I say in the song, that alliance didn't save me from her fate. Like, aligning with my dad didn't stop my life from turning out almost exactly like hers. I became a single mom, and I look back on that and I go ‘wow, I should have had more compassion for her,’ and I say in the record, ‘I hope my son realizes it before it's too late,' like I did.” Sharing about what her mom’s reaction was to hearing the track, Halsey said, “my mom cried like a baby.” Before delving into the specifics of how she played the song for her mom at “the worst time,” after she had stayed up all night taking care of her after getting sick in the studio and going to the hospital. “It was just like this crazy moment where I looked at her and I was like, I'm a mom too. We are more the same right now at this moment in life than we ever have been,” she said of the emotional moment. With the Badlands anniversary coming up next year, this year Halsey gets to celebrate 10 years of her OG EP, Room 93. A project she looks at with nothing but love, “I love Room 93,” Halsey expressed, “I loved it so much that I took half the songs and put them on the debut, you know, ‘Hurricane,’ ‘Ghost,’ like I still play ‘Is There Somewhere’ live a lot of the time, it's definitely a fan favorite.” “You know, it's funny, I love Room 93 so much. I actually reference it in a way… there’s a single on this album called ‘EGO,’ and in the song I say ‘I want to go back to the ...
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    12 mins
  • Khalid | Audacy Check In | 9.11.24

    Khalid | Audacy Check In | 9.11.24
    Sep 11 2024
    Checking in with Audacy’s Mike Adam at the Hard Rock Hotel in New York, Khalid chatted all about his new album Sincere, song samples, possible collab project pairings, and more. With five years between his last and most recent album, Khalid spoke to why he knew now was the time to finally drop his third album. “Well when I started off, I started writing music at 17 years old. So to go from being a high school student to a multi-platinum career in a matter of 2 to 3 years… it was insane,” Khalid began. “It’s nothing that they can teach you, it’s nothing that they can prepare you for. So I really feel like I had to take some time off to write, to understand what I wanted my true impact as an artist to be on this earth. What ways I wanted to connect with my fans, and so it took a lot of lived experiences, and walking life, and seeing the world… seeing different sides of the world for me to get to this point where I finished this album… and I feel like I’m putting something out that is rooted in my core, it’s exactly the name of the album, it’s Sincere.” The album’s lead single "Please Don't Fall in Love with Me,” samples the Alicia Keys and Drake 2009 bop “Unthinkable (I’m Ready).” A song millennials need no introduction to, but perhaps the Gen-Zs listening do. A thought that got Mike thinking to ask Khalid if he can remember the first song he heard that he didn't know was a sample, that introduced him to an old song or even a recent song that he might have not known about before. “I would say it was this song, one of my favorite songs actually that I've loved for years, ‘Feel It All Around’ by Washed Out," Khalid shared. “I didn't know that the whole baseline of that song is a sample from another song." After some internet research, it turns out the sample is Italian singer Gary Low's "I Want You,” released in 1983. Khalid also mentioned “Changes,” by Tupac as an example, noting “I love the sample now,” adding that he’s “been listening to ‘The Way It Is,' Bruce Hornsby, for a minute now, I’m addicted to that song.” Having sampled Drake and being, as Mike put it, “a lifelong die hard Kendrick fan as well, he wanted to know Khalid’s thoughts on if he feels that “in 2024 rap beef is still important for the culture, for Hip-Hop." Admitting that he while definitely believes “that competition in any sport is important to thrive, to create, for the culture,” he went on to say, “Me, I'm a little Pop star that stays out the way and minds my own business. So I don't really get too much in other people's business or anybody else's altercations. I kind of try to choose a low profile, chill, relaxed life over here.”Adding, “as long as people are looking at it for their benefit, to thrive in creativity… I don't necessarily see it as a problem.” So if Khalid was to come out with a full project, or even an EP with a rapper, Mike wanted to know who the self-proclaimed “Pop star” thinks he’d pair well with, and create the project with. “Oh, I don't know, actually… I'm more of a vibe person. I feel like it's about just sitting in the room with you, getting to know who you are, connecting with you on a deeper level,” Khalid said at first, before coming to the realization that if he were to “choose any rapper to do a collaboration project with, I'm definitely going with 6LACK.” “I mean, we've already done songs together so we have chemistry," he continued. “I would probably do something with J. Cole as well. I've met him and he was super kind to me… I feel like kindness is key, if you can have a conversation and you can meet someone and you can connect with them, then the sky's the limit.” Khalid also went on to reflect on the polished engineering of today’s music, as opposed to the more raw and less refined vocals from musicians of the past, such as Al Green or Marvin Gaye. “I feel like nostalgia is one of the biggest drugs known to man. We have to just understand that times are different and auto-tune can also be a talent. The way that people can utilize these programs on their computers, that has to be respected for something. But it doesn't mean that there's not classically trained musicians that are thriving and are killing it in the game. But I like to see the beauty in both sides of the spectrum.” Khalid also went on to reveal what track almost didn’t make it on the album, talk about his love for writing music, his music writing process, and more. To catch it all, check out the entire interview above. Words by Maia Kedem Interview by Mike Adam
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    9 mins

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