In a recent interview with Chris Booker on 97.1 AMP, Zedd revealed details about his upcoming album, as well as opening up about how he met Selena Gomez that lead to their subsequent collaboration.
Talking about his album, he said “I’m really far advanced in my album right now. It’s probably still going to take me a good month, month-and-a-half to finish it, you know, the last touches. And then depending on if I can keep that promise of one-and-a-half months, it’s going to come out sooner or later!”
Talking about the direction he’s taken for the album, he said “I want to be able to perform every single song on the piano. That was kind of the idea on this album, so as long as I take care of that, the songs won’t get old“.
He also revealed how he met Selena Gomez, and how the whole collaboration came together.
“It was about as random as it gets. I had a day off, and I don’t have a lot of days off, and I decided to go buy stuff for my house because I just moved, so I have an empty house and I had to pee. And I had my engineer with me, so I was like, “I hope they have a bathroom here.” And he said, “You know what? Just go over to the studio over there,” which was across the street from my studio. He was like, “They have a bathroom. Just go use that.” I was like, “All right!” So I walk in and John, the head of our label who had just signed Selena, was there. He was like, “Oh! What are you doing here?” I said, “I just have a day off. I don’t take a lot of days off! Don’t be mad! I’m still working on the record!” And he’s like, “Okay. Have you ever met Selena?” That was literally the next thing he said. I was like, “Uh, no.” So he introduced me to her and was like, “Hey, she’s cool. Maybe we should make a song together.” And then like a week later, we started working on a song…all because I had to pee!”
Check out the complete interview here.
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