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Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

What Goes into a Song? with Hrishikesh Hirway

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Comedy, Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Hrishikesh Hirway is a musician & host of Song Exploder who joins with Jonathan to talk about about the many elements that go into creating a song, speaking with artists like Solange, Lorde, & Weezer about their creative process & what goes into their songwriting, as well as his own creative process. Find Hrishi Hirway on Twitter & Instagram @HrishiHirway & visit Song Exploder http://songexploder.net/ Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Getting Curious.

0:03.4

I'm Jonathan Menes and every week I sit down for a 30 minute conversation with a brilliant

0:07.3

ex-wortcholun all about something that makes me curious.

0:10.2

This week I'm curious about what goes into a song, so I'm joined by song explorer podcast

0:14.1

host, Rishi Heerwe.

0:17.4

Welcome to Getting Curious.

0:18.4

This is Jonathan Van Ness and this week I'm so excited to welcome Rishi.

0:22.2

I nailed it right?

0:23.2

What's your gorgeous last name?

0:25.1

Heerwe.

0:26.1

Heerwe.

0:27.1

My full name is Rishi K Sheerwe.

0:28.1

Beautiful name.

0:29.2

They really is.

0:30.1

Like a gorgeous melody, which goes right into what we're going to be talking about today,

0:34.0

honey.

0:35.0

How do you lay down the track of a song?

0:37.8

She's really kind of a major topic when you think about it and just to qualify the topic

0:41.8

a little bit and just to tell the children a little bit about you, you host two very major

0:45.8

podcasts.

0:46.8

One is very much in the vein of what we're talking about.

0:49.1

The other is not and I'm very obsessed with that one though.

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