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Mike Posner Working on 3rd Sophomore Album
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After recording and putting aside two entire sophomore albums, Pages and Sky High, Posner has shifted labels from RCA to Island and is working on yet another project, which he says is "almost done" and sports a different sound, something more singer-songwriter-oriented and melodically flavored than 2010's 31 Minutes To Takeoff, which he began to reveal during his 2014 Unplugged concerts and at performances during this year's South By Southwest.
"I was what they call 'shelved,' which meant if I didn't have a big song on the radio my album wasn't going to be released," Posner -- who's also been a go-to writer for Justin Bieber, Maroon 5, Nick Jonas, good pal Big Sean and more -- tells Billboard. "I don't feel bitter about that at all. I asked RCA to let me off the label and they very graciously did, and after that I sort of stumbled on this new material, this new style. I could probably put out Sky High and Pages, but that music is no longer current to me. It's no longer true to me. It's true to who I was then, but the music I'm writing now is true to who I am now, and I wanted to make a new, third album. And hopefully," he adds with a laugh, "this one comes out."
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Also interesting:
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While he's finishing the new album Posner -- who's been working with Maroon 5 guitarist James Valentine -- is represented by "Sugar," a track on Maroon's latest album V, which he originally wrote for his Pages album. "Adam (Levine) wanted the song," Posner says. "He called and asked for it months before and I said no. But when Pages wasn't going to come out and I sort of had the seedlings of this new record, I thought, 'Well, this is just gonna sit on my laptop' so I gave it to them and when they recorded the song Adam added his flavor to it and he wrote on it as well, lyrically and some melodic things, and he really sang it well. I'm a big fan, so I'm glad they did it."
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Read the entire article on Billboard:
http://www.billboard.com/articles/co...g-for-maroon-5
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so weird all of my wishes are coming true.
sounds odd
Also he was great live!