017 - Dean Lewis
The Good Parts with Andy Grammer
Andy Grammer | Multi-Platinum Selling Pop Artist
4.8 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Dean Lewis is an Australian singer/songwriter best known for his 2018 hit "Waves" and most recently his massive hit "Be Alright" that has since massively skyrocketed him into the US pop charts.
Listen as Andy and Dean discuss in depth what it is to be an artist. They touch on everything from the creative process, where do songs actually come from, being persistent about your art through hardships and various roadblocks in life and the music industry to going on tour, the lifestyle and what its like to headline for the first time. They also get into how experiencing huge success for the first time can affect you as a person/artist and how important it is to stay grounded while Dean rides the wave of the massive success of his most recent single "Be Alright". Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Andy Grammer. |
| 0:01.7 | Everyone has a story. |
| 0:03.0 | I just like to skip to the good parts. |
| 0:09.8 | For me, this usually includes some discussion of the soul. |
| 0:13.2 | Why are we here? |
| 0:14.2 | What happens when we die? |
| 0:15.7 | The stuff that for some reason all of us have been trained to shy away from. |
| 0:19.7 | So this podcast is an opportunity to talk to people |
| 0:22.1 | that I find fascinating and go deep. |
| 0:27.5 | On the podcast today, what up, guys? How's everybody doing, by the way? Good? I'm doing good. |
| 0:32.5 | On the podcast today, we have Dean Lewis. This guy is one of my favorite Aussie Australian musician, singer, |
| 0:39.4 | songwriters. And it was really fun to catch him in this snapshot of his life because he's |
| 0:46.0 | riding like a huge hit called Be All Right. 571 million streams. He's doing, he's doing fine. He's doing all right. We got into a lot of different |
| 0:56.4 | stuff about how you have to be persistent about your art. We got into the very strange conversation |
| 1:03.8 | of trying to figure out where the hell songs come from. Like where does the inspiration actually |
| 1:08.1 | come from? It gets a little bit out there and strange, which I'm into. |
| 1:11.6 | But mostly it's just really fun to have a conversation with someone |
| 1:15.6 | when they're in this, like when they're really on the rise, |
| 1:20.6 | you're catching him right as he's gone from being not having tons of success to massive success, |
| 1:25.6 | and me and him go over the pros and cons of that |
| 1:29.1 | and how that has an effect on you. |
| 1:31.0 | He's a sweetheart of a dude |
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