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Celeb News: Zedd talks about Lady Gaga's "f*****g cool" new album
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Zedd talks about Lady Gaga's "f*****g cool" new album
Zedd reveals secrets of Lady Gaga's new experimental album:
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German DJ-producer Zedd is riding high off the success of his hit single "Clarity," but he has an even bigger trick up his sleeve: A handful of tracks he worked on for Lady Gaga's next album, ARTPOP. "I'm really, really excited for people to hear what we came up with," Zedd tells Rolling Stone. "I just really can't imagine they would not like it, to just say it straight up. I think the stuff we've made is pretty ****ing cool."
The producer says he and Gaga have finished "around five or six" potential tracks for the follow-up to 2011's Born This Way, which is expected out later this year. "There's obviously more ideas and half-finished songs, but I'm not sure what she will want to put on the album," he adds. "That is all her decision."
Zedd first met his Interscope labelmate at a London event in 2011, after label chief Jimmy Iovine suggested they link up. "We had, like, one minute to talk, and it was onstage while everyone was taking pictures and being really loud. She just said, 'Let's make music.'" Zedd promptly returned to his studio and put together a track that he thought she might like. "My manager played it for her," he recalls, "and she immediately called Jimmy and said, 'I want this guy to produce my album."
In the spring of 2012, Zedd opened for Gaga on the Asian leg of her Born This Way Ball tour. They started working together on new material during the tour, and followed up with a couple more weeks in a proper studio. Working with Gaga, Zedd was impressed by the pop star's confident, free-wheeling creative style. "It's amazing, because she does not have to please anyone, and she is who she is," he says. "Her first idea of how we should approach the music was just to be completely open – nothing is too crazy. Whatever is dope is dope. We do whatever we want, and we don't have to make a song that's 3 minutes and 30 seconds just to fit the radio."
Although Zedd is best known for glossy, Top 40-friendly electro beats, he says that isn't necessarily an indication of where Gaga is going with her new music. "We didn't try to make an EDM album – but, at the same time, we didn't try not to make an EDM album," he says. "I've done a lot of stuff that's really outside of what I usually do. There was one song that started from her just giving me, like, 10 words to describe an emotion, and then I had to make this into music. It's been a very experimental way of approaching music."
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Damn, I have a feeling that this album is gonna be incredible
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Producer Zedd Reveals Secrets of Lady Gaga's 'Experimental' New Album
'She completely open,' says the producer of Gaga's 'ARTPOP' sessions. 'Nothing is too crazy'
German DJ-producer Zedd is riding high off the success of his hit single "Clarity," but he has an even bigger trick up his sleeve: A handful of tracks he worked on for Lady Gaga's next album, ARTPOP. "I'm really, really excited for people to hear what we came up with," Zedd tells Rolling Stone. "I just really can't imagine they would not like it, to just say it straight up. I think the stuff we've made is pretty ****ing cool."
The producer says he and Gaga have finished "around five or six" potential tracks for the follow-up to 2011's Born This Way, which is expected out later this year. "There's obviously more ideas and half-finished songs, but I'm not sure what she will want to put on the album," he adds. "That is all her decision."
Zedd first met his Interscope labelmate at a London event in 2011, after label chief Jimmy Iovine suggested they link up. "We had, like, one minute to talk, and it was onstage while everyone was taking pictures and being really loud. She just said, 'Let's make music.'" Zedd promptly returned to his studio and put together a track that he thought she might like. "My manager played it for her," he recalls, "and she immediately called Jimmy and said, 'I want this guy to produce my album.'"
In the spring of 2012, Zedd opened for Gaga on the Asian leg of her Born This Way Ball tour. They started working together on new material during the tour, and followed up with a couple more weeks in a proper studio. Working with Gaga, Zedd was impressed by the pop star's confident, free-wheeling creative style. "It's amazing, because she does not have to please anyone, and she is who she is," he says. "Her first idea of how we should approach the music was just to be completely open – nothing is too crazy. Whatever is dope is dope. We do whatever we want, and we don't have to make a song that's 3 minutes and 30 seconds just to fit the radio."
Although Zedd is best known for glossy, Top 40-friendly electro beats, he says that isn't necessarily an indication of where Gaga is going with her new music. "We didn't try to make an EDM album – but, at the same time, we didn't try not to make an EDM album," he says. "I've done a lot of stuff that's really outside of what I usually do. There was one song that started from her just giving me, like, 10 words to describe an emotion, and then I had to make this into music. It's been a very experimental way of approaching music."
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Can her team STOP talking about this album? I want her to have everyone refuse to answer questions and not talk about it and then just reveal the first single like RIhanna did with Diamonds...
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I've done a lot of stuff that's really outside of what I usually do.
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I'm glad, because a lot of his music sounds very similar
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Exciting
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This all sounds so great. I love that she wasn't afraid to get experimental. I'm also glad they didn't set out trying to make an EDM album.
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LATER THIS YEAR? Meh.
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"We didn't try to make an EDM album – but, at the same time, we didn't try not to make an EDM album," he says. "I've done a lot of stuff that's really outside of what I usually do.
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I'm worried.
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First quote that actually has me believe it's not coming within the next couple of months and might even be released in 2014
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All signs point to this album being AOTY
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What else would we expect from Gaga the risk-taker? Queen never plays it safe.
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I literally cannot even picture what the ARTPOP era is going to be sonically or visually
and it makes me so excited!!
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Half finished songs
Later this year?
hopefully October/November release
But i'm excited
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Originally posted by Commando
All signs point to this album being AOTY
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of 2015?
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And still not coming anytime soon probably
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Although Zedd is best known for glossy, Top 40-friendly electro beats, he says that isn't necessarily an indication of where Gaga is going with her new music. "We didn't try to make an EDM album – but, at the same time, we didn't try not to make an EDM album," he says. "I've done a lot of stuff that's really outside of what I usually do. There was one song that started from her just giving me, like, 10 words to describe an emotion, and then I had to make this into music. It's been a very experimental way of approaching music."
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Figured. Hopefully people can stop going on about how "EDM" isn't on trend right now and fear for ARTPOP's flopping.
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This has gotten me so excited the album is going to be so good
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I'm sick of these vague, generic responses about the album. These answers barely tell us anything, I'm just going to blindly wait for an announcement and then **** myself when I hear the single.
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First quote that makes me think it's not coming before 2014 tbh and it also sounds like the album could be one big freaking mess
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I'm so excited. It sounds like it's really going to be amazing.
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And still not coming anytime soon probably
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Let the girl be satisfied with her music. The world can wait, will wait, and is waiting.
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