How To Write a Hit Song: The Love Junkies
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Pushkin Industries
4.5 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Lori McKenna, Liz Rose and Hillary Lidnsey—known as the Love Junkies—write some of the best songs in Nashville today. Between the three of them, they've helped launch Taylor Swift, pushed Lady Gaga into country music—with her album "Joanne"—and gave country music one of its more controversial hits: "Girl Crush." In this episode of Broken Record they give Malcolm a glimpse into their songwriting process and break down some of their more successful songs. To hear a playlist of our favorite Love Junkies songs visit https://brokenrecordpodcast.com/.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, hello everyone, Gather round. |
| 0:12.0 | Malcolm Gladwell here. |
| 0:14.0 | If you're a fan of my show, Revisionist History, then you know my deep and abiding obsession |
| 0:19.0 | with American higher education. |
| 0:21.0 | How it's broken, how it can be fixed. |
| 0:24.0 | Over our next couple of episodes, we dive into this topic again. |
| 0:29.0 | And as you will hear, one story makes me really angry. |
| 0:33.0 | And the other gives me hope. |
| 0:36.0 | Listen to Revisionist History, wherever you get your podcasts, |
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| 0:59.0 | I'm going to go to the studio in Nashville. |
| 1:02.0 | I'd call it an interview, except I didn't really interview them. |
| 1:06.0 | I felt like I just sat in a corner laughing and made sure the tape was running. |
| 1:10.0 | I know boyfriend and family last week. |
| 1:13.0 | And you have to hear... |
| 1:16.0 | Well, we're going to write a song. |
| 1:19.0 | I'll call it boyfriend. |
| 1:22.0 | I know, but like this is how this is... |
| 1:26.0 | The thing about an old boyfriend is Liz Rose. |
| 1:29.0 | The one who said, that's the line of a song right there, is Lloyd McKenna. |
| 1:34.0 | The one playing guitar who said, she's playing Girlcrush, is Hillary Lindsay. |
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