Ep. 121: Grey

And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan

And The Writer Is

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🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Multi-platinum, GRAMMY nominated artist/producers – comprised of brothers Kyle and Michael Trewartha – are known for their chart-topping style of pop music, blending crisp electronic production and infectious vocal melodies. Each amassing over 2 billion global streams, our guests' viral hit singles “The Middle” and “Starving” introduced the duo to virtually every corner of the world. In 2016, RIAA Quadruple-Platinum song “Starving” with Hailee Steinfeld and Zedd reached #5 at the US Top 40 and was nominated for an American Music Award. In 2018, “The Middle” – in collaboration with Zedd and Maren Morris – became a certified RIAA Triple-Platinum record, held the #1 spot on the US Top 40 charts for five consecutive weeks, and accumulated three GRAMMY nominations, two iHeart Music Awards, a Billboard Music Award, and an AMA nomination. The duo has performed “The Middle” with collaborators Zedd and Marren Morris on The Billboard Music Awards and Ellen. Other notable releases include Camila Cabello collaboration “Crown” for Netflix’s Bright Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2017), and “Grey Area” featuring Disney starlet Sofia Carson (2019). In 2020, our guests offered their most personal and genre-defying installment yet in the form of sibling EPs: LIGHT and DARK. The 11-song project features vocals, writing, and production from the brothers on every song, and represents a new and exciting phase for them. Michael explains, “This time the music is really coming from us. It’s about our lives and our friends, the good and the bad.” And The Writer Is… Grey!

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome to And The Writer Is. I'm your host Ross Golan. I've written with hundreds
0:15.7	of artists and writers over the years and my favorite part of each session is the first
0:20.1	hour when we catch up about life, the industry, politics, composition, whatever. So this is
0:26.0	a journey of learning why people write songs, how people write songs, and most importantly,
0:31.7	who the people are, who write the songs. I'm producing this with the great Joe London,
0:36.8	big deal music publishing, and mega house music management. If you want to listen to the
0:41.4	songs we discuss in this podcast, follow us on our socials, find out about special live
0:47.7	events, or buy that merch aka that had I always wear. Go to our website www.andthewriteris.com.
0:59.8	Welcome to And The Writer Is. I am your host Ross Golan. Today's many, many times platinum
1:05.4	chart topping Grammy-nominated DJs don't just have matching hair but matching DNA too. These
1:13.1	brothers are sound designing producers that have redefined traditional instruments famously using
1:19.0	samples like woodchops for snare drums. All the way from Huntington Beach, California, this duo
1:25.1	has taken the world by storm, collaborating with the biggest names in dance music,
1:30.2	Thusley bridging the gap between EDM and popular music, which kind of explains their name as well.
1:36.7	And the writers is are somewhere in the middle of black and white. Michael and Kyle Trewartha,
1:47.4	aka Greg. That was awesome. You can get the name perfect. I was panicking there. I was panicking in my
1:59.2	sweatpants. So you guys are in our pants? Am I wearing pants? We're going no pants.
2:08.1	What's the only way to do an interview? I mean, if the amount of things that have happened on
2:14.4	Zoom, I imagine that there are some weird stories that will come out. When they do the 30 for 30
2:20.5	about or whatever the documentary is about this era, there are going to be some weird stories.
2:26.1	Yeah, and pants on professional work environments and things like that.
2:31.0	Have you guys been working a lot on Zoom? Have you been producing a lot of records?
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