⏰ Some highlights from the conversation with @CalvinHarris and @emilnava on @GoodTimeShowCH with @aarthir - on music, NFTs, the creative process and much more!
On their creative process together
@calvinharris “I don’t need to explain myself that much because he knows what I’m looking for. Articulating it has always been an issue for me. Because he knows me so well it’s effortless for everyone”
@calvinharris “I don’t need to explain myself that much because he knows what I’m looking for. Articulating it has always been an issue for me. Because he knows me so well it’s effortless for everyone”
@emilnava “We’re friends. We talk all the time. I always can judge straight away if Calvin will like something. I’ll drive around with Calvin booming the song in the car talking about visuals. We back and forth until we find something that works”
@calvinharris on the NFT drop
- “Smaller artists can have ownership over their music and let the people decide. This can completely revolutionize the music industry”
- “Smaller artists can have ownership over their music and let the people decide. This can completely revolutionize the music industry”
@emilnava on the fish imagery in their NFT
“We both have a shared love of nature. Even if something is hi-tech we’re trying to be rooted in nature”
(loved the story of how fish have been a theme in their lives with their families/where they worked)
“We both have a shared love of nature. Even if something is hi-tech we’re trying to be rooted in nature”
(loved the story of how fish have been a theme in their lives with their families/where they worked)
@emilnava on directing a good music video
“Keeping the train on the tracks is one of the hardest things. These videos can be big machines and it can sometimes feel like you’re at war”
“Keeping the train on the tracks is one of the hardest things. These videos can be big machines and it can sometimes feel like you’re at war”
On "Feels"
“It had Katy Perry, Pharrell, Big Sean, and Calvin. It was a lot of work to get them on set at the same time. I stepped into the bathroom and said to myself ‘Don’t mess this up’. And then the camera started jamming. The stress is what you don’t see.”
“It had Katy Perry, Pharrell, Big Sean, and Calvin. It was a lot of work to get them on set at the same time. I stepped into the bathroom and said to myself ‘Don’t mess this up’. And then the camera started jamming. The stress is what you don’t see.”
@calvinharris on the songwriting process
“When I started I used to do everything myself because I was in a small town in Scotland”
“It’s like a high concept movie where you can put the whole idea on the back of a cigarette packet. It’s deconstructing it before you write it”
“When I started I used to do everything myself because I was in a small town in Scotland”
“It’s like a high concept movie where you can put the whole idea on the back of a cigarette packet. It’s deconstructing it before you write it”
@calvinharris on how he started making electronic music in the late 90s
“Dance music was big back in the 90s. I was using an Amiga 500 Plus to make music. My brother wrote a manual for OctaMED. It’s ‘Octa-’ because you had 8 tracks. For example, channel 1 had a hi-hat.”
“Dance music was big back in the 90s. I was using an Amiga 500 Plus to make music. My brother wrote a manual for OctaMED. It’s ‘Octa-’ because you had 8 tracks. For example, channel 1 had a hi-hat.”
“The graphics and the audio on the Amiga were advanced beyond anything else on the market. When Shadow of the Beast 2 came out it was like ‘Whoaaa!’”
On the music industry coming back from the pandemic
@calvinharris “It’s a good question, but an impossible one. Everyone’s been through hell and I hope when we get back we can remember what it is to be human and what it is to love one another, more than ever”
@calvinharris “It’s a good question, but an impossible one. Everyone’s been through hell and I hope when we get back we can remember what it is to be human and what it is to love one another, more than ever”
@emilnava “It’s hard to say. Nothing is going to compare to standing with your friends listening to live music. The idea seems very distant right now but I hope we can learn from this and come out better people. I’m happy to see things seem to be picking back u”
And one final note from @calvinharris on whether the pandemic changes what he wants to say with his music
“No it reinforces it. I want my music to be happier and more uplifting than ever. No darkness whatsoever”
“No it reinforces it. I want my music to be happier and more uplifting than ever. No darkness whatsoever”
That was one amazing conversation - thanks to both @CalvinHarris and @emilnava (and @DerekDolin !). @aarthir and I had a blast. Shout out to @TomJWhiteIV for the excellent summary as always.
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