Diplo Tells Apple Music About the Country Music Audience<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nI think people that work in the country industry think too much that their audiences are purists. There are some country purists, they’re really, they’re there. They keep some things in check and they kind of guide a certain style of country to be beautiful and great but at the end of the day, I grew up in South Florida and I was listening to country just as much as hip hop and just as much as pop music and I never really, as I got older, I got even more varied\u2026 [and] as I got older, living here in Nashville, I lived in Hendersonville, the music was hand in hand. We listen to Three 6 Mafia and you listen to Alan Jackson\u2026 I do think purists underestimate the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Diplo Tells Apple Music About Creating Space for Everyone in Country Music<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThere’s room for everybody, especially in country. I think a younger audience definitely sees that there’s a lot more stories to be told in country music. It’s not just songs about whiskey and beer and things. There’s other stories to tell and there’s other messages. And it’s cool to lean into even more classic styles of country that are becoming big now like what someone like Charley Crockett does or whatever and it’s like funky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Diplo Tells Apple Music About Making Country Music to Dance To<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nFor this [record], I definitely was thinking of Stagecoach. I was like, \u201cWhat works live? What can I do that’s uptempo, has energy?\u201d And I tapped into that urban cowboy vibe. Why can’t you dance to country music? And I’m not talking about line dancing, which I still want to learn those\u2026 I want to make a record like Watermelon Crawl or Boot Scootin’ Boogie or something one day. But that’s tailored to a honky tonk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Diplo Tells Apple Music About His Writing and Producing Process<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nI’m always making things. I’m not a great guitar player by any means, but I can play some chords and drop chords. Usually every country player is a writer and is a virtuous sort a guitar but I’m kind of there tracking. I’m like, \u201cOh yeah, stop there!\u201d And I just record a little piece of the guitar and I’m like, \u201cOkay.\u201d And I have my headphones on and I kind of play it, do some things to it and they’re like, “Whoa, what’d you do?\u201d\u2026 And then I flipped the record quick and they’re confused by writing and producing at the same time\u2026 So it’s a learning curve ’cause people usually just want to have a guitar and that’s it. And they play. But I’m always tracking and recording and trying to, that’s how I write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Diplo Tells Apple Music About Nashville Being Supportive of his Project<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThere hasn’t been a lot of naysayers\u2026 especially in Nashville, it might be the most supportive place I’ve been to\u2026 I was like, “Okay, I’m done with this [record] now. I got maybe one more song I’m going to finish.” And then it’s a lot of work to do these records\u2026 but now\u2026 we have all these people calling up, “I got this record for your project. I want to do this.” And I’m like\u2026 “Where were you at a month ago when I was rapping the record?” So, nobody wants to be the first person to jump off the bridge, you know? Or whatever. The water’s not even that deep. I’m just going to always jump off. I’m going off first and showing you guys it’s safe and I’m like happy there are guys who do it, like Morgan [Wallen] or Paul [Cauthen] or whoever that are able to trust me and do it because at the end of the day, what do you got to lose?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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