According to her newly-released collaboration with Zedd, trust the process is Remi Wolf‘s guiding mantra on “Lucky,”
What is the second single from Telos, the superstar deejay/producer/artist’s soon-to-be released studio LP come 8.30, “Lucky” began taking shape five years back and has resulted in an upbeat ode to finding the silver lining in failed relationships.
In a statement about his new collaboration, Zedd said:
“Lucky couldn’t have happened without Remi.” “Five years ago she wrote the first verse and chorus, but had no intention of staying on it. Earlier this year, I invited Remi to the studio to play her the Telos Album which changed her mind and she decided to stay on the song. We got to work on the second verse and it completely brought the song to life — no one else could sing it as amazing as she does.”
During Lollapalooza, ‘Wolf joined Zedd onstage for the live debut of “Lucky” and the single has subsequently been included in several more live sets from the producer, including his recent performance in New York, marking the launch of a new DJ category on Twitch.’
With the release of “Lucky,” Remi joins a hall-of-fame list of female collaborators – including Maren Morris on “Middle,” Foxes on “Clarity,” Alessia Cara on “Stay,” and Hayley Williams on “Stay the Night” – who’ve lent their vocals talents to the DJ and producer’s discography.
In his 2022 interview with Rolling Stone about breaking the news to the artists whose vocals don’t make it to the final version, the producer (born Anton Zaslavski) said “Some people take it better than others.” “But I’m always pretty transparent about the process. Some tones fit the songs better than others. I’m friends with most of the people who were going to cut and I knew their tone wasn’t going to make sense and I said right away, ‘I love your voice but I’m pretty sure this isn’t the right tone.’”
Wolf is quite familiar with the art of making eccentric, pop music as earlier this year, she released her sophomore album, Big Ideas – a project full of soaring vocals and hyperreal lyricism. “I am truly trying to describe what I was experiencing,” she told Rolling Stone earlier this year. “We live in a world where we’re eating and kissing and touching and smelling.”
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Author: Saul Goode
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