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The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Aimee Mann 5/29/18

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

Tv & Film

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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In 2015 Aimee Mann, one of the best songwriters of our generation, joined Brian to discuss the evolution of her music, the time she spent with ‘Til Tuesday, and the way Aimee thinks about creating songs. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I don't know writing songs for another record do it's like there's always like

0:10.0

little shows and I think like oh we'll do the show here and we'll do the show here

0:13.4

and was you know and then it's like well that's the month like it's over no I know

0:17.3

three shows it's a month because they're all like different I have to do different

0:20.7

rehearsals or like you know I mean mean this is one dumb thing which you go like,

0:25.4

oh I'm going to sing one Dylan song, how hard that could that be? And then you listen to it and try to say,

0:30.1

you're like, oh, it could be really, because that is exactly not what I do.

0:34.2

I'm not like a jammer.

0:36.2

I like the meter and the rhythm and the melody

0:38.6

is different, every goddamn line.

0:41.3

It's impossible.

0:42.4

Because you're a perfectionist. but I can't it's like but I also it's not my

0:46.4

skill set I just can't I just can't do it like to you know what I mean like you mean you

0:50.2

what you mean you what which thing can you do like he he has a bunch of words and then he

0:53.9

like crams them in sort of a minute way that what are you yeah but like it's not I

0:58.8

mean it's hard to like you can't learn a melody you have to learn like each line is totally

1:03.4

discreetly different and but these are songs you know I mean you know these songs you

1:08.2

know in these songs your whole life I'm the person who like knows I know a song and in the way that you know what I mean like we

1:15.6

all live in this and you realize you don't know it at all yeah like Lee Roth, who I think you're compared to very frequently.

1:24.8

Yes. David Lee Roth always says that, like he never really knew the words to you really got

1:30.4

and like people thought he changed them because you know he says you really got me now and said you really got me going.

1:34.8

Yeah.

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