Sam Hollander

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

One of the most renowned songwriters and producers in the music industry, Sam Hollander joins Rhett to talk about “failing his way up the charts” and the intense creative process that’s led to his success. Sam tells Rhett why a conversation between his parents and Nile Rogers led to his career path, and shares a life lesson from basketball’s Steve Nash that changed how he approaches his work. Sam has had multi-platinum success writing and producing for the likes of Panic! At The Disco, One Direction, Fitz and the Tantrums, Weezer, Katy Perry, Train, blink-182, Banners and Gym Class Heroes amongst many others. To date, he’s achieved 22 US Top 40 Hits, as well as 10 Number 1's, 10 top fives, and 87 Top 10 chart positions globally. His songs have been streamed over 5 billion times, and in 2019, he held the #1 position on the Billboard Rock Songwriters Chart for nine weeks, a year-end record. Sam has also been chosen to be on Variety's Hitmakers list, as well as being named Rolling Stone's Hot List Producer of the Year. Wheels Off is brought to you by Osiris Media. Hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Co-produced by Kirsten Cluthe in partnership with Nick Ruffini (Revoice Media). Editing by Justin Thomas. Production Assistance by Matt Bavuso. Music by OLD 97’s. Episode artwork by Katherine Boils. Show logo by Tim Skirven. Revisit Season One of Wheels Off with Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Will Forte, Lydia Loveless, Allison Moorer, Ted Leo, Paul F. Tompkins, Jen Kirkman, and more. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Please leave us a rating or review on iTunes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	O'SIRUS
0:02.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:09.8	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:11.4	That's when it got wheels off.
0:14.0	We shot it up and we ain't gonna stop.
0:17.6	Oh, I like you, like it a night.
0:20.1	That's when they got wheels off.
0:27.6	Sam Hollander is someone whose name you probably don't know,
0:34.4	but you do know his work.
0:37.3	He's a songwriter, record producer, musician,
0:42.3	who has written or co-written some of the most famous songs of our time,
0:51.4	22 top 40 hits. As recently as 2019, he was the Billboard Rock
0:57.8	songwriter, number one songwriter for nine straight weeks, which was a record. He's written
1:07.3	songs that have been streamed over four billion times.
1:13.1	So you may not know his name, but you know his work.
1:16.5	And his work is just that.
1:18.6	It's work.
1:19.1	And it's fascinating to hear him describe his process.
1:24.1	I think you will come to the conclusion that I've always come to about Sam, which is that
1:29.5	his infectious happiness, his ebullent joy, like he is good attitude personified.
1:41.2	He walks into a room and lifts spirits. That's just what he does. And it's part of his job. You know, he brings out the best in his collaborators, and they work together to make something really special. He's a good dude. Such a good dude, in fact, that he was willing to join me via Zoom for this
2:02.0	wheels-off conversation from his family's vacation in Cape Cod.
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