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Asking David Personal Questions
Oh, and the best part is he, he barely— he doesn't even really know how to play an instrument. He's like— I was like, do you know how to play any instruments? Like, no, I can play the piano but really slowly. And it was so interesting because he says he can hear the songs and and he just tells people like how to make the song. So he'll go to someone like Charlie and he'll be like, make this go faster, make this higher. Literally, he hears the entire song in his head before. It was literally like being around fucking X-Men and we were just there like, which is like a bunch of fucking idiots pointing a camera at him. Be like, what else can you do? Um, it was really fucking impressive.
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Then with him was one of the greatest producers of our time, Benny Blanco. David goes, what songs have you produced? And he goes, um, well, every song since 2008 that you might have been into, I did that.
Yeah, Benny, Benny Blanco is like the Behind the scenes, in a humble way. Oh yeah, yeah, no, no, he's great. And yeah, he's produced like Dynamite by Tyler, a bunch of Katy Perry songs, every Kesha song, all the Kesha songs. And it's, it's just so fucking ins…
Like moves like Jagger.
Oh, and the best part is he, he barely— he doesn't even really know how to play an instrument. He's like— I was like, do you know how to play any instruments? Like, no, I can play the piano but really slowly. And it was so interesting because he says he can hear the songs and and he just tells people like how to make the song. So he'll go to someone like Charlie and he'll be like, make this go fa…
We were talking about money this week, you and I, and you said something really interesting, which was like, when you have so much money, where do you go from there? Yeah.
Like, it sucks. Like I was talking about how like, like there's people that like in our lives, uh, like our friends that have just been born into a lot of money and it like, it sounds great on paper. And, but like, it sucks. Cause like, like it's so hard to p…
Like, it's like you would, and it's also like no one feels bad for you.