“Goliath”
Jessie Reyez is a singer and songwriter initially from Toronto. She’s gained 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 in all probability conscious that there are songwriters and producers whose names you’ll discover time and again within the credit for giant hits; Jessie is one among them.
However for this episode, I talked to her about her personal tune “Goliath.” And the day that she wrote that tune, 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 workforce 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 jot down music, they don’t all the time 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 tune’s going to get recorded in any respect. However within the case of “Goliath,” what got here out was a tune 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
Lisa and BLACKPINK
