“Goliath”
Jessie Reyez is a singer and songwriter initially from Toronto. She’s received two of Canada’s Juno awards, and she or he’s been nominated for a Grammy. Along with writing her personal music, Jessie’s been a songwriter on tracks by Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa, Sam Smith, Eminem, and plenty of others. You’re most likely conscious that there are songwriters and producers whose names you’ll discover time and again within the credit for large hits; Jessie is one in every of them.
However for this episode, I talked to her about her personal track “Goliath.” And the day that she wrote that track, she occurred to be within the studio with a bunch of different songwriters and producers. So I additionally talked to Jordan and Stefan Johnson, from the manufacturing group Monsters & Strangerz, and Jeff Gitelman, AKA Gitty. Between the three of them, their credit additionally embrace songs by Selena Gomez, Maroon 5, Alicia Keys, Mac Miller, and, once more, tons extra.
When a gaggle like this will get collectively to write down music, they don’t at all times know in the event that they’re going to be singing that’s going to get recorded and launched by an artist someplace down the road, or if the track’s going to get recorded in any respect. However within the case of “Goliath,” what got here out was a track that was very private to Jessie Reyez.
You should buy or stream “Goliath” right here.
Illustration by Carlos Lerma.
For a transcript of this episode, click on right here.
LunchMoney Lewis – co-writer
Miles Julian – trumpet
Drew McKeon – drums
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