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SONGLAND — “Julia Michaels” Episode 205 — Pictured: Keegan Bost — (Photograph by: Trae Patton/NBC)
The newest episode of Songand featured Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Julia Michaels, who has sung her personal songs, just like the 2017 breakout hit “Points,” however has additionally penned hits for Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Kelly Clarkson, Rita Ora, Jason Derulo, Gwen Stefani, Nick Jonas, John Legend, and Ed Sheeran — and he or she is barely 26 years previous.
Forward is a rundown of Michaels’ episode, together with the successful tune and easy methods to obtain it.
Contestants
On Songland, she stated she’s on the lookout for “one thing that seems like me, that’s uncooked and emotional however nonetheless type of quirky and enjoyable.”
The 4 contestants who carried out for her had been:
- Keegan Bost, Gadsden, Alabama, “Glad You Got here”
- Jenna Lotti, Milton, Massachusetts, “Unhappy Women”
- Jeremy Shayne, Beirut, Lebanon, “Too Late”
- Dan Burke, East Haddam, Connecticut, “Numb”
The three artists chosen to advance had been Bost, who was assigned to producer Ryan Tedder; Lotti, who was assigned to producer Shane McAnally; and Burke, who was assigned to producer Ester Dean.
The Successful Track
The tune Michaels selected to file is Bost’s “Glad You Got here” however that was after he and Tedder tore it down and wrote virtually totally new lyrics, together with altering the title to “Give It To You.”
However Bost didn’t care what they did to the tune. He in contrast himself to a fiction author, saying that notes on the lyrics had been nothing private. He was very excited to win, particularly since he watched the primary season of the present and determined to throw warning to the wind and ship in some demos although he had no expertise within the music business.
“After watching season one in every of Songland, it actually simply put this bug in my head that I couldn’t let go of, so I despatched in a couple of songs to see if this was one thing a child from Alabama might do. At first, I assumed it was simply type of a pipe dream. The truth that I’m right here now could be loopy,” stated Bost.
Of the tune, Michaels stated, “I really like all of those songs however finally, solely one in every of them actually gave the impression of moi. The tune that I’ve picked to file is Keegan’s, ‘Give It To You’ … it felt totally different and enjoyable and nonetheless emotional. It felt actually cool that they took what I had stated in as a result of some individuals wouldn’t try this and be like, ‘My factor was higher.’ It was good that it actually was like a full-on collaboration. It simply felt like me.”
Bost gushed, “Julia Michaels simply picked my tune to file and launch and that’s insane. I dwell in such a small city and there’s no music scene occurring there. To have this chance is just not one thing that will occur to someone like me. Thanks a lot to Songland, to Julia, to Ryan. That is a tremendous expertise and I’m so, so grateful for this.”
You possibly can hear the complete tune on Songland’s and McBride’s YouTube channel and obtain it now on iTunes and Spotify.
Songland airs Mondays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on NBC, following new episodes of The Voice.
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