It has to be the right song, and whether or not we sing on it together or whether I write a song for his album or he writes a song for mine, I don't know. But we've been working together, and the fans are very excited."
"The last two years of hard work, it's all really been leading up to this album, and I am excited to get it out," Simpson acknowledges.
Simpson has been recording in Los Angeles, where he now makes his home, and also working with Ryan Tedder, Dr. Luke and Nasri Tony Atweh, who was also part of last year's "Coast to Coast." Simpson says the set is "coming along amazing," while the sound is "a little more mature than what I've released previously. I'm working a lot with my acoustic guitar, and we're using a lot of real instruments. I'm inspired by Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz-style music as well a lot of Justin Timberlake, Chris Brown music. So we're going to find a great mix there and see where it goes."
Simpson plans to return to the studio in early March, hopefully for one final run before he's ready to call it a wrap.
"If you want to ask me for a date for the album, it's a very difficult question for me," he says. "We're still working on it. But my best guess is May or June sometime."
"It should be a dope track," Simpson reports. It originally started as a guitar idea, and we decided we wanted to produce the whole thing up.
It's got a lot of dubstep elements to it. I wanted to do something a lot of people would be surprised with me putting out. I love being unpredictable and unexpected. I'm excited for it to come out...and then the rest of the new (songs), too."
