Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Big Time Rush’s James Maslow on Whether He Prefers Writing Solo or With His Bandmates

James Maslow spent years writing with his Big Time Rush bandmates, but now he’s penning solo music, so which does he prefer?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Seacrest, Big Time Rush is James Maslow is accustomed to
working alongside his bandmates. The Craft songs haven't been outed
since two thousand and nine, and while the guys are
still going strong, he's also been leaning into his solo
career of late, whipping up some exciting new music, which
he tells US is an incredible experience because he gets
to do whatever he wants.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
But that's not to say one is preferable to the other.
Making music in a group is also great.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
You have multiple voices and opinions and you write a
song that comes from multiple people, which just changes the
nature of that song. Whereas is my own project, I
can literally do whatever I want, So there's a freedom
that comes with that, and I think because of that,
I'm actually writing much better music James Maslow.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
There is a new single he did write on his
own as it's a personal subject his fiance is called Eyes.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
It's out now.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
That's Direct from Hollywood.