December 16, 2024 • 19 mins
Celebrating another #1 on the dance charts, Matt from Meduza joined us again on America's Dance 30 to chat all about "Another World"! He shared how the song was born w Hayla, and how long ago they started working on it!!
He also talked about working in the studio w 30 Seconds To Mars!
We also got to know Matt & Meduza better w #FinkysFirsts!
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He also talked about working in the studio w 30 Seconds To Mars!
We also got to know Matt & Meduza better w #FinkysFirsts!
Find out about:
- if music was the first thing he wanted to get into
- the first time meeting Simon & Luca
- if Meduza was the first name they considered for their artist project
- the first show they did as 'Meduza'
- the first dance song that made him fall in love w EDM
- the first place he would choose to live if he could live anywhere in another world
Follow: @AmericasDance30 on all socials!
Count down the biggest dance songs in the country every week with Brian Fink on America’s Dance 30; listen on stations around the world!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Matt.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I know you're in the middle of your Meduza Winner
tour right now and the insanity of the holidays, so
thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome back to America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Thank you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Man. It's always a pleasure, even in the middle of
the tour, like it's always a.
Speaker 5 (00:17):
Pleasure to talk with you.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Dance counting down the biggest dance songs in the country.
This is America's.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Dance thirty and I got you a belated birthday gift,
a number one on the US dance charts.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
It's always it's always good, it's always appreciated, so thank you,
thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
It's a this is a fifth time, right.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I've lost count at this point, but I didn't have
a chance to wrap it, so I I'm sorry, but
congratulations on another number one for you guys.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
And let me say that there's always one thing better
than being the fifth times and number one on America.
Dance fairly is streaming about being six times America number
one on.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
American something to work towards in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Joking apart of it, I mean, I'm really happy.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
You know, we do this and we make music for
because it's our passion. It's not only our job, it's
our passion, it's our life. So like saying that the
people is loving our music and then they enjoying singing
or just like listening to that or wherever they are,
(01:49):
it's a big pleasure. And it gave us the right
motivation to do better and better every time.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
And I've seen the videos of everybody singing along with
the at your shows, which is so incredible. I can't
wait to talk about how Another World was born with Hala,
But first let's get to know Matt and Medusa a
little better with Finky's first, right. So I always love
(02:20):
finding out the origin story of artists. Now, when you
were growing up, was music the first thing you wanted
to get into or was there something else you wanted
to be?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Uh no, it was football soccer for you.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Guys, And so what happened? Why didn't you get into it?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I was not good enough?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Easy good enough?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Reason is exactly. It's just like, you know, you have
to do a choice.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
So when you see that you're not good enough for that,
it just leave space for who's good than that.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
So when did you actually get into music?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I mean, I've always been into the music. On the
third side, I grew up with my dad that he
was a DJ in the late seventies, So I grew
up in the middle of like million of vinyls and
CDs in a house where I used to live with them.
(03:18):
So I had this music inside since the beginning.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
But then I discovered that.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Probably I was like fourteen fifteen and there was one
of my friends that he was a DJ and he
used to do just like private parties with friends and
stuff like that, and he had this Techniques one and
two hundred though, and then the CDJ.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Hundred, and.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
I was like admiring that setup and saying, I want
to do that, and then this has to be my thing,
and I asked him to teach me. And from that moment,
from the first moment that I pressed play on the
on the techniques, I said, this is it.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
It's gone. That's my that's my path.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
That is so incredible. Now do you remember the first
time meeting Simon and Luca?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Oh? Yeah, So basically I met first Simon because I
was a resident DJ, a local DJ in a club
closer to Como and Simon with another project. He came
with as a guest on that night, so I opened,
(04:39):
I warmed up for him, and after that I would
just like skype each other because at that time we
used to have Skype to text to each other.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
And uh, that was the first time I met Simon.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
He was basically the guest of that that show and
he was working with Luca. So when we decided to
work together, we went to have we've had a dinner
all together and Simon brought Luca for the first time,
so I had the time to meet him personally and
talk about work and things and then from them or
(05:17):
when we decided to started working on something.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Together in the studio.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
And let me say that the connection, the magic in
the studio was really clear since the beginning, So like
you know, it's that kind of situation when things are
happening no matter why, but it's just like you feel
something in the studio and then we made peace of
(05:47):
your heart and the rest of history.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
The rest is definitely history.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And thank god you guys got along together in the
studio because that would have sucked if you didn't.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Now, do you remember the first show that you guys
did as Medusa.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
I remember the first show. It was a DJ set
in Ireland. It was me and my manager, Kevin h
and we were in Sligo. It was just this DJ
set in a pub in the middle of nowhere in Ireland.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Am i English?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
To be honest, if you've ever been in an Ireland,
even like if you speak English, you really don't understand
what they're saying. So it was a crazy thing because
it's there was this pub in the middle of nowhere,
and the backstage was was the pub itself.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
So I was just like this in this backstage in.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
This pub with all the with the big bar and
with the bartender asking me if I wanted to drink
something or stuff like that. And then upstairs there was
a club with one hundred pe and we had a.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
The best show.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Honestly, if I think about that show now, it was
probably one of the best things happened to me because
the emotion I had on that show, because it was
the first one after Piece of Your Heart, it was crazy.
And we made a promise because that show was the
first one, so the last show of Medusa is going
(07:25):
to be in the same place in the same city
to celebrate, you know, the beginning at the end. So
I hope this will happen in one hundred years.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I was about to say, why are you even thinking
about that yet?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
But that's the plan. That's it's only the idea of
the plan.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Well, let's hope that never happens.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
I mean, at some point it might be better to stop.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Here in one hundred years now.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
When you guys were trying to decide on an artist
project name, was Medusa the first name that you guys
decided on or were there other names you were considering?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
So basically it happened when managers told us, guys, we
need a name for the new project, and we asked them, okay,
what's the deadline to find a new name, and they,
of course they answered yesterday. Right. So we thought about,
(08:23):
you know, a couple of things, M D and S
because are the initial letter of our names. And then
the second thing, it was like, we are all Italians,
so what was the most characteristic things for Italian outside
of our country?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
It was the fashion except for the pizza. It was
the fashion not represented.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
With sach it.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
It was the iconical not.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
So we said, okay, let's let's put this together and
try to see. You know, there was the Gorgon as
a logo for Versace and MDNESCA was Medusa, so it
was a pretty easy to combine that in that name.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Unbelievable how that came together and.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Nothing special, to be honest, but they worked.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
It definitely worked.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Now not only are you guys Grammy nominated, but your
multi platinum and in twenty twenty four you had close
to a billion streams, which is so amazing. But do
you remember the first dance song that made you fall
in love with edm Ooh?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Yeah for me personally, and I think I'm talking in
behalf of Simona and Luca, who was dat punk when
the release the album with One More Time. Simon is
a little bit older, so he probably the album before
with the funk and that kind of stuff. But definitely
(09:57):
they've been the I think the game changers for everybody in.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
The electronic music.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
So they just wrote something that it's I think it's
going to be impossible.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
To replicate now and forever.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Probably they changed the game for dance music, and this
is the main reason why all the producers and DJs
are here, just like doing things in pop and main
charts and being big on streaming platforms and radio daytime.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I think, isn't it incredible?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Not to take anything away from daft Punk, but isn't
it incredible the impact that they had on dance music
with not even releasing that much.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
I think that's it's a really good question because I
don't think the best thing from them was the music,
to be honest, Yeah, music music was great, But what
they teached us is that a good project is not
only made by music, and we can see that nowadays.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Especially with the socials.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
A good project needs to have hype on how you
treat the live show too, every performance, every kind of
communication you have with the fans and with the word
outside of the music.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
So it's not only about music. Yeah, that's a big part.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
But the way they did the Coachella show, the way
they were communicating with the people, not doing features with
artists like Madonna, and because they were big and just
like with the Mask, so having a different kind of
communication compared to the rest.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Of the acts at that.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Time, that was special. So I think that some of
all these things was duff punk. It was not just
like Okay, one more time, and that's stuff punk. That's
a game changer like that. It's how you treat your
project in every side.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
And it's incredible that you bring up Coachella. A friend
of mine got to see them at Coachella with the Pyramid,
and she said it was one of the best shows
she has ever been to.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
So I completely agreed.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Now finally in Finkey's first in honor of Another World
with Hala going number one. It's got the lyrics I'll
find you in another world. If you could choose anywhere
to live, real or fake, where would be the first
choice you would want to live in another world?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
I mean, you know, as a kid, you always, like
most of the kids, wants to be an astronaut.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
So if I can leave on.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
The Naza habble, just just like going through the space
and see what's around the Earth, and that would be
probably a live stream for me because I always wanted
to be outside there. But I know it's it's impossible,
so that it still remain a dream.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yeah, but you're you're saying it's impossible.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I mean they're actually putting tourists into space now, so
it's not that impossible.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Literally in another word, So.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Exactly, let's talk about this smash.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
How was this song born with Hala.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
So basically we've always been a fan of her voice
since before she was working with John Summit. We remember
that we got promo from some club trucks on Toolroom
Records on even the like the Dead Mouse one, and
she was amazing. She reminded us the time when we
(13:56):
were working with Becky Hill at the beginning, when there
was this female voice that was completely different than the
rest in the dance music industry, and the way she
writes was completely on other things and was just like
with good top lines, talking about positive things and not
(14:18):
just like oh yeah, I love you, I need you
that it's okay, but we already have done that. And
so we've been trying to work with her for like
a couple of years before going to the studio together,
and then finally it happened that we matched on the
same idea of a song. There was another word and
(14:39):
we decided, okay, this is gonna be a good one,
and I mean everything happened pretty quickly, to be honest.
She's amazing. She's so talented and and working with this
kind of artist is always positive thing.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
There's always something to learn from them.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, you bring up Becky Hill.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
They really do have a similar type of powerful but
not over the top voice, which is so incredible.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Yeah, I mean, you know that it's not easy to
find good features in dance music, so everybody is thinking that,
you know, okay, you need to work on dance music
and you need to do easy things. But the good
of dance music is that you can It's still music.
Like you write songs, and even like the top line
(15:30):
in a dance song can be like a love song
a sad song, and it can help you in in
some moments, and people can make it yours and just
like living the these songs how they prefer like like no
matter how they prefer, like if you want to listen
to that in the club or you're free also to
(15:53):
to live that and feel emotions just like listening to
that in the.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Car or during the days.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
So no matter if it's just dance music, but especially
nowadays music in general, it's not just a single genre,
but it's it's what you feel listening to that kind
of top line or music in the background. So luckily
it's more bigger than what it was what it used
(16:22):
to be in the past.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah, And I've always said that what makes a great
dance song is when you can strip away everything and
it's an incredible song by itself. And this is this
is another one. Now, how long ago did you guys
start working on it.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
It's been almost a year. It's been almost a year. Yeah,
you know, because like you make the song in maybe
in one two weeks or a month, but then you
have to test it out. So I've been tested out
play that in festivals and club shows, and not just that,
the structure of the songs, the mix, the master and
(16:57):
then it goes into the label and then deal.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
With the contracts and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
So it takes time to find the best deal to
make everyone happy. But yeah, the song mainly like in
a month basically, like to finish the song.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
And then of course you've got to wait for timing
for schedule of releases with both of you guys, so
that makes it tough too.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Was Yeah, she was out with at that time with
John Summit's second song, she Vers, so we had to
wait for the end of their promotion in respect of
John Summond of course, and then had to wait to
create IP on the song. It's not just like okay,
I post one video and the song is out. You
(17:46):
need to create hype and unique, you need to create
rumors on the song, and this takes time.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Well, congratulations on it going number one. It is such
an amazing song.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Now, I saw you guys in the studio working with
thirty Seconds to Mars. Was that working on them on
you or both?
Speaker 4 (18:06):
No, it was a collaboration between the I don't know
if it's gonna be thirty Seconds to Mars or Jarret later,
but both brothers were in the studio, so we've been
with Jarreon and Shannon too. It's definitely gonna be a collaboration.
Were still like working on the song. We just wrote
the main top line for now, so we gonna go
(18:30):
now back and forth and trying to adjust it and
finishing and trying to find the right idea because we
still didn't have working on the song itself.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
On the music.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
The hard thing of working with this kind of artist
is that just like day touring more than us, so
trying to find the right time to be in the
studio together again. It's gonna be a little bit complicated,
but we're gonna make it. Thank god, we got now
Zoom and all these platforms, but you know, being in
(19:02):
the studio together, there's always another kind of magic, so
we always prefer that the old style way.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I can't wait to hear it in twenty twenty eight.
Time for that, Matt.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
It is always awesome catching up with you. Congratulations on
everything going on with MEDUSA. Thank you so much for
your time on America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Thank you, thank you for having me for the fifth time,
and really can't wait for the sixth.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yes, America's Dancer. Counting down the biggest dance songs in
the country.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
America's Dance thirty
Matt.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I know you're in the middle of your Meduza Winner
tour right now and the insanity of the holidays, so
thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome back to America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Thank you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Man. It's always a pleasure, even in the middle of
the tour, like it's always a.
Speaker 5 (00:17):
Pleasure to talk with you.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Dance counting down the biggest dance songs in the country.
This is America's.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Dance thirty and I got you a belated birthday gift,
a number one on the US dance charts.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
It's always it's always good, it's always appreciated, so thank you,
thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
It's a this is a fifth time, right.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I've lost count at this point, but I didn't have
a chance to wrap it, so I I'm sorry, but
congratulations on another number one for you guys.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
And let me say that there's always one thing better
than being the fifth times and number one on America.
Dance fairly is streaming about being six times America number
one on.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
American something to work towards in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Joking apart of it, I mean, I'm really happy.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
You know, we do this and we make music for
because it's our passion. It's not only our job, it's
our passion, it's our life. So like saying that the
people is loving our music and then they enjoying singing
or just like listening to that or wherever they are,
(01:49):
it's a big pleasure. And it gave us the right
motivation to do better and better every time.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
And I've seen the videos of everybody singing along with
the at your shows, which is so incredible. I can't
wait to talk about how Another World was born with Hala,
But first let's get to know Matt and Medusa a
little better with Finky's first, right. So I always love
(02:20):
finding out the origin story of artists. Now, when you
were growing up, was music the first thing you wanted
to get into or was there something else you wanted
to be?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Uh no, it was football soccer for you.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Guys, And so what happened? Why didn't you get into it?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I was not good enough?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Easy good enough?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Reason is exactly. It's just like, you know, you have
to do a choice.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
So when you see that you're not good enough for that,
it just leave space for who's good than that.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
So when did you actually get into music?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I mean, I've always been into the music. On the
third side, I grew up with my dad that he
was a DJ in the late seventies, So I grew
up in the middle of like million of vinyls and
CDs in a house where I used to live with them.
(03:18):
So I had this music inside since the beginning.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
But then I discovered that.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Probably I was like fourteen fifteen and there was one
of my friends that he was a DJ and he
used to do just like private parties with friends and
stuff like that, and he had this Techniques one and
two hundred though, and then the CDJ.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Hundred, and.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
I was like admiring that setup and saying, I want
to do that, and then this has to be my thing,
and I asked him to teach me. And from that moment,
from the first moment that I pressed play on the
on the techniques, I said, this is it.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
It's gone. That's my that's my path.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
That is so incredible. Now do you remember the first
time meeting Simon and Luca?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Oh? Yeah, So basically I met first Simon because I
was a resident DJ, a local DJ in a club
closer to Como and Simon with another project. He came
with as a guest on that night, so I opened,
(04:39):
I warmed up for him, and after that I would
just like skype each other because at that time we
used to have Skype to text to each other.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
And uh, that was the first time I met Simon.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
He was basically the guest of that that show and
he was working with Luca. So when we decided to
work together, we went to have we've had a dinner
all together and Simon brought Luca for the first time,
so I had the time to meet him personally and
talk about work and things and then from them or
(05:17):
when we decided to started working on something.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Together in the studio.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
And let me say that the connection, the magic in
the studio was really clear since the beginning, So like
you know, it's that kind of situation when things are
happening no matter why, but it's just like you feel
something in the studio and then we made peace of
(05:47):
your heart and the rest of history.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
The rest is definitely history.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And thank god you guys got along together in the
studio because that would have sucked if you didn't.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Now, do you remember the first show that you guys
did as Medusa.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
I remember the first show. It was a DJ set
in Ireland. It was me and my manager, Kevin h
and we were in Sligo. It was just this DJ
set in a pub in the middle of nowhere in Ireland.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Am i English?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
To be honest, if you've ever been in an Ireland,
even like if you speak English, you really don't understand
what they're saying. So it was a crazy thing because
it's there was this pub in the middle of nowhere,
and the backstage was was the pub itself.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
So I was just like this in this backstage in.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
This pub with all the with the big bar and
with the bartender asking me if I wanted to drink
something or stuff like that. And then upstairs there was
a club with one hundred pe and we had a.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
The best show.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Honestly, if I think about that show now, it was
probably one of the best things happened to me because
the emotion I had on that show, because it was
the first one after Piece of Your Heart, it was crazy.
And we made a promise because that show was the
first one, so the last show of Medusa is going
(07:25):
to be in the same place in the same city
to celebrate, you know, the beginning at the end. So
I hope this will happen in one hundred years.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I was about to say, why are you even thinking
about that yet?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
But that's the plan. That's it's only the idea of
the plan.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Well, let's hope that never happens.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
I mean, at some point it might be better to stop.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Here in one hundred years now.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
When you guys were trying to decide on an artist
project name, was Medusa the first name that you guys
decided on or were there other names you were considering?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
So basically it happened when managers told us, guys, we
need a name for the new project, and we asked them, okay,
what's the deadline to find a new name, and they,
of course they answered yesterday. Right. So we thought about,
(08:23):
you know, a couple of things, M D and S
because are the initial letter of our names. And then
the second thing, it was like, we are all Italians,
so what was the most characteristic things for Italian outside
of our country?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
It was the fashion except for the pizza. It was
the fashion not represented.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
With sach it.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
It was the iconical not.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
So we said, okay, let's let's put this together and
try to see. You know, there was the Gorgon as
a logo for Versace and MDNESCA was Medusa, so it
was a pretty easy to combine that in that name.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Unbelievable how that came together and.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Nothing special, to be honest, but they worked.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
It definitely worked.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Now not only are you guys Grammy nominated, but your
multi platinum and in twenty twenty four you had close
to a billion streams, which is so amazing. But do
you remember the first dance song that made you fall
in love with edm Ooh?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Yeah for me personally, and I think I'm talking in
behalf of Simona and Luca, who was dat punk when
the release the album with One More Time. Simon is
a little bit older, so he probably the album before
with the funk and that kind of stuff. But definitely
(09:57):
they've been the I think the game changers for everybody in.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
The electronic music.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
So they just wrote something that it's I think it's
going to be impossible.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
To replicate now and forever.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Probably they changed the game for dance music, and this
is the main reason why all the producers and DJs
are here, just like doing things in pop and main
charts and being big on streaming platforms and radio daytime.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I think, isn't it incredible?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Not to take anything away from daft Punk, but isn't
it incredible the impact that they had on dance music
with not even releasing that much.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
I think that's it's a really good question because I
don't think the best thing from them was the music,
to be honest, Yeah, music music was great, But what
they teached us is that a good project is not
only made by music, and we can see that nowadays.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Especially with the socials.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
A good project needs to have hype on how you
treat the live show too, every performance, every kind of
communication you have with the fans and with the word
outside of the music.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
So it's not only about music. Yeah, that's a big part.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
But the way they did the Coachella show, the way
they were communicating with the people, not doing features with
artists like Madonna, and because they were big and just
like with the Mask, so having a different kind of
communication compared to the rest.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Of the acts at that.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Time, that was special. So I think that some of
all these things was duff punk. It was not just
like Okay, one more time, and that's stuff punk. That's
a game changer like that. It's how you treat your
project in every side.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
And it's incredible that you bring up Coachella. A friend
of mine got to see them at Coachella with the Pyramid,
and she said it was one of the best shows
she has ever been to.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
So I completely agreed.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Now finally in Finkey's first in honor of Another World
with Hala going number one. It's got the lyrics I'll
find you in another world. If you could choose anywhere
to live, real or fake, where would be the first
choice you would want to live in another world?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
I mean, you know, as a kid, you always, like
most of the kids, wants to be an astronaut.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
So if I can leave on.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
The Naza habble, just just like going through the space
and see what's around the Earth, and that would be
probably a live stream for me because I always wanted
to be outside there. But I know it's it's impossible,
so that it still remain a dream.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yeah, but you're you're saying it's impossible.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I mean they're actually putting tourists into space now, so
it's not that impossible.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Literally in another word, So.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Exactly, let's talk about this smash.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
How was this song born with Hala.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
So basically we've always been a fan of her voice
since before she was working with John Summit. We remember
that we got promo from some club trucks on Toolroom
Records on even the like the Dead Mouse one, and
she was amazing. She reminded us the time when we
(13:56):
were working with Becky Hill at the beginning, when there
was this female voice that was completely different than the
rest in the dance music industry, and the way she
writes was completely on other things and was just like
with good top lines, talking about positive things and not
(14:18):
just like oh yeah, I love you, I need you
that it's okay, but we already have done that. And
so we've been trying to work with her for like
a couple of years before going to the studio together,
and then finally it happened that we matched on the
same idea of a song. There was another word and
(14:39):
we decided, okay, this is gonna be a good one,
and I mean everything happened pretty quickly, to be honest.
She's amazing. She's so talented and and working with this
kind of artist is always positive thing.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
There's always something to learn from them.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, you bring up Becky Hill.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
They really do have a similar type of powerful but
not over the top voice, which is so incredible.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Yeah, I mean, you know that it's not easy to
find good features in dance music, so everybody is thinking that,
you know, okay, you need to work on dance music
and you need to do easy things. But the good
of dance music is that you can It's still music.
Like you write songs, and even like the top line
(15:30):
in a dance song can be like a love song
a sad song, and it can help you in in
some moments, and people can make it yours and just
like living the these songs how they prefer like like no
matter how they prefer, like if you want to listen
to that in the club or you're free also to
(15:53):
to live that and feel emotions just like listening to
that in the.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Car or during the days.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
So no matter if it's just dance music, but especially
nowadays music in general, it's not just a single genre,
but it's it's what you feel listening to that kind
of top line or music in the background. So luckily
it's more bigger than what it was what it used
(16:22):
to be in the past.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah, And I've always said that what makes a great
dance song is when you can strip away everything and
it's an incredible song by itself. And this is this
is another one. Now, how long ago did you guys
start working on it.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
It's been almost a year. It's been almost a year. Yeah,
you know, because like you make the song in maybe
in one two weeks or a month, but then you
have to test it out. So I've been tested out
play that in festivals and club shows, and not just that,
the structure of the songs, the mix, the master and
(16:57):
then it goes into the label and then deal.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
With the contracts and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
So it takes time to find the best deal to
make everyone happy. But yeah, the song mainly like in
a month basically, like to finish the song.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
And then of course you've got to wait for timing
for schedule of releases with both of you guys, so
that makes it tough too.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Was Yeah, she was out with at that time with
John Summit's second song, she Vers, so we had to
wait for the end of their promotion in respect of
John Summond of course, and then had to wait to
create IP on the song. It's not just like okay,
I post one video and the song is out. You
(17:46):
need to create hype and unique, you need to create
rumors on the song, and this takes time.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Well, congratulations on it going number one. It is such
an amazing song.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Now, I saw you guys in the studio working with
thirty Seconds to Mars. Was that working on them on
you or both?
Speaker 4 (18:06):
No, it was a collaboration between the I don't know
if it's gonna be thirty Seconds to Mars or Jarret later,
but both brothers were in the studio, so we've been
with Jarreon and Shannon too. It's definitely gonna be a collaboration.
Were still like working on the song. We just wrote
the main top line for now, so we gonna go
(18:30):
now back and forth and trying to adjust it and
finishing and trying to find the right idea because we
still didn't have working on the song itself.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
On the music.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
The hard thing of working with this kind of artist
is that just like day touring more than us, so
trying to find the right time to be in the
studio together again. It's gonna be a little bit complicated,
but we're gonna make it. Thank god, we got now
Zoom and all these platforms, but you know, being in
(19:02):
the studio together, there's always another kind of magic, so
we always prefer that the old style way.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I can't wait to hear it in twenty twenty eight.
Time for that, Matt.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
It is always awesome catching up with you. Congratulations on
everything going on with MEDUSA. Thank you so much for
your time on America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Thank you, thank you for having me for the fifth time,
and really can't wait for the sixth.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yes, America's Dancer. Counting down the biggest dance songs in
the country.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
America's Dance thirty
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