“We Can’t Stop” took a big turn for pop culture. That made Madonna start putting in grills. That made all the pop chicks start putting in grills. All the pop records, they were either ballads or extra fist pump-y. Now people weren’t scared to do mid-tempo records. And “23” put a real turn on it because now you’ve got Katy Perry doing “Dark Horse” with Juicy J. You never heard Katy Perry do a ****ing song with Juicy J. You know? Or do a record with the bounce. That **** is dope as ****, seeing that. It made everything Jimmy Iovine ever told me make sense. You can make your sound go pop. It just took time for me to see it.
Oh, and there's new Miley Cyrus music in the works (six songs are done so far). She's recording at home over the beats he sends her, and it sounds crazy: He plays me a couple songs off his phone, and it's like country Lana Del Rey backed by a choir, except it's Miley pouring her heart out.
She's coming.
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I did “We Can’t Stop” for Rihanna, but it never worked. Every time I would play We Can’t Stop I was like “this is the new Party in the USA.” I was like OK if I keep saying this is the new Party in the USA, why don’t I go to the girl who did “Party in the USA?” I didn’t know what Miley Cyrus was doing at the time. The next week, I was at RCA, playing some records. I didn’t even know that was Miley’s label. They heard “We Can’t Stop” and were like “these melodies, this whole **** is crazy. This would work for Miley Cyrus.” And I was like look at my phone! I just told my manager the same thing! We knocked out “We Can’t Stop,” and at first she was trying to sound like the demo I was like “don’t sound like the demo. Keep that country twang. You’re from Nashville.” She [Miley] kept it all the way her, and she killed “We Can’t Stop.”
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“We Can’t Stop” took a big turn for pop culture. That made Madonna start putting in grills. That made all the pop chicks start putting in grills. All the pop records, they were either ballads or extra fist pump-y. Now people weren’t scared to do mid-tempo records. And “23” put a real turn on it because now you’ve got Katy Perry doing “Dark Horse” with Juicy J. You never heard Katy Perry do a ****ing song with Juicy J.
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