Ep. 109: benny blanco: Part 2

And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan

And The Writer Is

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🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Born and raised in Reston, VA, our guest is an award-winning artist, record producer, songwriter, and musician. As a producer and songwriter, he is responsible for hundreds of millions of album sales worldwide due to his work with artists including Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, Halsey, Maroon 5, Rihanna, Katy Perry, Kesha, Sia, The Weeknd, Selena Gomez, Wiz Khalifa, Kanye West and many more. He is the recipient of the Hal David Starlight Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame, a five-time BMI Songwriter of the Year award winner, 2017 iHeartRadio Producer of the Year award winner, and eight-time Grammy nominee. This creative is also the founder of two labels in collaboration with Interscope Records: Mad Love Records and Friends Keep Secrets. His latest release, “Lonely” with Justin Bieber follows his 2018 debut album ‘FRIENDS KEEP SECRETS,’ which featured hits “Eastside” with Halsey and Khalid, “I Found You” with Calvin Harris, “Better to Lie” with Jesse and Swae Lee and “Roses” with Juice WRLD and Brendon Urie as well as collaborations with Ty Dolla $ign, 6LACK, Ryan Beatty and more. “Eastside,” the producer’s first-ever artist release, topped charts worldwide and is certified 4x Platinum in the U.S., with many other accolades worldwide. The album has been streamed more than 4 billion times to date. In 2019, he shared “I Can’t Get Enough” with Tainy, Selena Gomez, and J Balvin; and “Graduation” with Juice WRLD. Recently he made his television debut with a guest role in dear friend Lil Dicky's FX Networks comedy "Dave," and premiered the first season of his food show with acclaimed chef Matty Matheson, "Matty and Benny Eat Out America." He was the first guest on our podcast and in this episode, he is back to catch us up on everything he’s been up to. And The Writer Is... benny blanco!

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0:00.0	This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats.
0:11.0	So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.
0:15.0	Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Anne the Writer is. I'm your host Ross Golan. I've written with
0:37.7	hundreds of artists and writers over the years and my favorite part of each session
0:41.8	is the first hour when we catch up about life, the
0:44.4	industry, politics, composition, whatever.
0:47.9	So this is a journey of learning why people write songs, how people write songs, and most importantly, who the people are who write the songs. I'm producing this with
0:57.5	the great Joe London, Big Deal music publishing, and mega house music
1:01.6	management. If you want to listen to the songs we discuss in this
1:05.4	podcast, follow us on our socials, find out about special live events, or buy that
1:11.5	merch, aka that hat I always wear, go to our website
1:15.0	W.W. and the writer is.com. For a little bit of context, we just wanted you to know that a lot of these were recorded before quarantine.
1:26.4	And as we know, a lot has changed in 2020.
1:29.7	So again, please stay safe out there and enjoy the new episodes of And The Writer is.
1:37.0	Welcome back, Benny Blanco, to And the Writer writer is you were the very first guest on this
1:47.8	podcast and now you're back hi.
1:50.4	What was I? You were.
1:53.0	I was number one?
1:55.0	Yeah, and I, man, I, when I first listened to that, I was like, you know, I didn't know how to ask anybody
2:01.7	questions.
2:02.4	I still don't really know what I'm doing but at
2:04.4	least I have a hundred episodes now that I've done so I feel like I'm a little better of a
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