Ep. 69: Sarah Aarons

And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan

And The Writer Is

Unknown, Music Interviews, Songwriting, Music, Songwriters, Education, Interviews, Music Creation, Artists

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🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Our next guest is an Australian born and raised, No. 1 charting, Grammy-nominated songwriter. Her passion for music sparked at a young age after winning a songwriting grant, which inspired her to follow the career path of her idol, Sia. After learning Sia – along with her other favorite songwriters Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift – were signed to Sony/ATV Publishing, she submitted a demo to their Sydney office which impressed Head of A&R, Maree Hamblion and she was later signed. Since then this songwriter has used her unique talent to co-write US and Australian radio charting songs such as LDRU’s “Keeping Score (feat. Paige IV),” Cosmo’s Midnight’s “History,” David Guetta’s “Don’t Leave Me Alone (feat. Anne-Marie),” and two of Zedd’s No.1 hits, "Stay (with Alessia Cara)” and the 2019 Song of the Year Grammy-nominated song “The Middle” with Grey and Maren Morris. She has also crafted songs for major artists such as Camila Cabello, Galantis, Dua Lipa, Demi Lovato, Jonas Brothers, Ruel, Mabel and contributed four songs to Khalid’s No. 1 Billboard Top 200 debut album 'Free Spirit'. In 2018, she received the APRA Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year award and then won APRA’s Songwriter of the Year award the very next year. Additionally, she is nominated for Song of the Year at the 2019 CMA Awards for co-writing Maren Morris’ No. 1 single, “Girl.” And The Writer is… the unstoppable, Sarah Aarons!

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0:00.0	If you could go back in time, would you save the world or yourself?
0:05.0	The BAFDA winning series The Lazarus Project returns.
0:12.0	Watch this epic and action-packed sci-fy thriller to see if George and the Lazarus agents can save the world from an infinite time loop
0:19.8	starring Papa Esse Edo and Caroline Quentin alongside a stellar British cast.
0:24.8	Watch all episodes of the new series of The Lazarus Project on Sky. Welcome to season 5 of and the writer is with your host Ross Golan.
0:48.8	Before I give my spiel I want to acknowledge the music army that listens to this podcast every week.
0:55.0	Since starting this, the And the Writer Is community has literally changed the
1:00.1	history of the music business by helping pass the Music Modernization Act, gotten songwriters
1:05.8	added to album of the year for the grammys, and still is advocating for positive changes
1:11.8	for our industry on a daily basis. So thank you and
1:15.6	Congrats. Now as you know I've written with hundreds of artists and writers over
1:21.5	the years and my favorite part of each session is
1:23.7	the first hour when we catch up about life, the industry, politics, composition, whatever.
1:29.4	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.
1:37.0	I'm producing this with the Great Joe London, Big Deal Music Publishing, and Mega House Music Management.
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