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Skylar Grey talks about working with Eminem

Postby JAGODA » Dec 19th, '12, 12:45

Skylar Grey‘s talents are inspiring. Eminem happens to think so too. In fact, the Detroit emcee was so moved by one of her songs that he added his own set of vocals to the project.

“When I arrived at the studio in Detroit, he had cut his verse for ‘C’mon Let Me Ride’ and he’d thrown in a surprise, which was a Queen interpolation on the song,” she tells TheDrop.fm. “I wasn’t expecting that to be there, that was all him — him singing Queen.”

Having worked so closely with Em previously on songs such as ‘Love the Way You Lie’ and Dr. Dre’s ‘I Need a Doctor,’ the Interscope signee had no problems reuniting with the veteran rapper. Alongside producer Alex da Kid, Marshall Mathers will executive produce Grey’s upcoming LP, ‘Don’t Look Down.’

“Even though he’s a rapper and I’m a singer, I really trust what [Eminem] hears,” she enthuses. “He’s got really good ears and I needed someone like that. Somebody that I could bounce stuff off of and ask questions and get good advice from. He’s really well-rounded and talented.”

The two meshed so well on ‘C’mon Let Me Ride’ that they took it to the trailer park for the filming of the video. “We had a random mixture of a lot of different people,” she says of the set. “It was really playful the whole time.”

Grey says that although most fans may harp on the musical differences between herself and Eminem, the value of what they’ve created is indisputable. “Music is music,” she states. “Whether it’s rap or rock music, as long as it’s quality music I think that it can be respected and appreciated by people from other genres. That’s one of the cool things we had from the start was combining an alternative-sounding hook on a rap song like we did on ‘Love the Way You Lie.’”

‘Don’t Look Down’ is bound to encourage a variety of emotions as Grey admits to not having one particular vibe in mind during its production. “I don’t ever plan what type of song I want to make; I just follow intuition.”

‘C’mon Let Me Ride’ incited goofiness in the studio — a rarity since many of her songs tend to be soberly introspective. “We [Alex da Kid and Mike Del Rio] had a lot of fun recording it,” she recalls. “It made me smile a lot. Most songs make me cry.”

With her sophomore opus coming to fruition, she’s prepared to take listeners for a ride. “I think when people listen to the album, they’ll be taken on a journey,” Grey admits. “By listening to it, they’ll get a pretty good understanding of who I am.”

‘Don’t Look Down’ arrives in 2013.

Source: http://thedrop.fm/skylar-grey-dont-look-down-album/

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Re: Skylar Grey talks about working with Eminem

Postby Jason M. » Dec 19th, '12, 12:50

It's pretty much safe to say she's on his album too. I think that's good...
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Re: Skylar Grey talks about working with Eminem

Postby Sam. » Dec 19th, '12, 12:59

^ No, please.
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Postby Jason M. » Dec 19th, '12, 13:33

^Why not?
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Re: Skylar Grey talks about working with Eminem

Postby Sam. » Dec 19th, '12, 13:39

She's boring and sounds so "I've heard this voice before" type. He should work with Lady Gaga, Hayley, and Alicia Keys.
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Re: Skylar Grey talks about working with Eminem

Postby babyjane » Dec 19th, '12, 13:41

I know Em's a creature of habit but the Alex/Skykar combo is a habit that needs to be broken. Skylar on the hook has become repetitive and boring.
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Re: Skylar Grey talks about working with Eminem

Postby Sam. » Dec 19th, '12, 13:45

Finally someone agrees.
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Re: Skylar Grey talks about working with Eminem

Postby JAGODA » Dec 19th, '12, 13:52

babyjane wrote:I know Em's a creature of habit but the Alex/Skykar combo is a habit that needs to be broken. Skylar on the hook has become repetitive and boring.

I agree.

Em should start making his own hooks again, I think his hooks are the best.
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Re: Skylar Grey talks about working with Eminem

Postby Sam. » Dec 19th, '12, 13:57

JAGODA wrote:
babyjane wrote:I know Em's a creature of habit but the Alex/Skykar combo is a habit that needs to be broken. Skylar on the hook has become repetitive and boring.

I agree.

Em should start making his own hooks again, I think his hooks are the best.

Word.

He could have easily employed some one to do the hook on "So Bad", but he didn't. And look, it turned out so beautiful.
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Re: Skylar Grey talks about working with Eminem

Postby babyjane » Dec 19th, '12, 14:04

I've always said he does his own hooks the best. Just listen to the majority of the songs on SSLP, MMLP and TES.
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Re: Skylar Grey talks about working with Eminem

Postby eminembound » Dec 19th, '12, 15:04

Sam. wrote:She's boring and sounds so "I've heard this voice before" type. He should work with Lady Gaga, Hayley, and Alicia Keys.


babyjane wrote: Skylar on the hook has become repetitive and boring.


she bores the fuck outta me. I don't want her to be on him next solo album.
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Re: Skylar Grey talks about working with Eminem

Postby Trimss » Dec 19th, '12, 17:21

Sam. wrote:She's boring and sounds so "I've heard this voice before" type. He should work with Lady Gaga, Hayley, and Alicia Keys.


Die please. Skylar is better than the three singers you mentionned.
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Re: Skylar Grey talks about working with Eminem

Postby Jason M. » Dec 19th, '12, 18:18

Trimss wrote:
Sam. wrote:She's boring and sounds so "I've heard this voice before" type. He should work with Lady Gaga, Hayley, and Alicia Keys.


Die please. Skylar is better than the three singers you mentionned.


Thank God, someone with a brain.

Says Skylar is boring and then says that he should work with Lady Gaga...
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Re: Skylar Grey talks about working with Eminem

Postby Sam. » Dec 19th, '12, 18:59

Trimss wrote:
Sam. wrote:She's boring and sounds so "I've heard this voice before" type. He should work with Lady Gaga, Hayley, and Alicia Keys.


Die please. Skylar is better than the three singers you mentionned.

Just because I differ with your great and honorable opinion, I should die? Great. Every one should bow to the great taste of Trimss here and fuck their own opinions and preferences. Here's mine:- :worship: I did n't except this from you, Trimmy.

It's not you, people in general just hook on someone that he works with more than a couple of times and, that, he shouldn't work with anyone else- that's sad.

And, I didn't know that calling someone boring makes them a worse artist than the other. Hmmm :coffee:

She might be better or whatever the crappy adjectives you would like to add to her name and talent. I don't care about her and matter of fact I don't care about the other bitches that I mentioned. I just want him to maybe, you know, work with him SOMEDAY.

I'm waiting for the day that he does a song with Gaga and y'll be like "Hey, I never doubted her. She's so nice....*herp* *derp*". Make up your mind, guys, it's just a matter of doing a hook or probably a song together. If you like it, listen to it; otherwise don't. It's upto you to and not anybody else.
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Re: Skylar Grey talks about working with Eminem

Postby Trimss » Dec 19th, '12, 19:09

Sam. wrote:Just because I differ with your great and honorable opinion, I should die? Great. Every one should bow to the great taste of Trimss here and fuck their own opinions and preferences. Here's mine:- I did n't except this from you, Trimmy.


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Sam. wrote:It's not you, people in general just hook on someone that he works with more than a couple of times and, that, he shouldn't work with anyone else- that's sad.

And, I didn't know that calling someone boring makes them a worse artist than the other. Hmmm


Skylar Grey is a lot better at making hooks on hip hop tracks than any of the artists you mentioned. That's pretty much a fact.
She wrote LTWYL, Castle Walls, and her hooks on Coming Home, Our House (even though ruined by the beat), Rescue Me and Words I Never said are great. She gives tracks that epic feeling.

And her solo work is great too. The buried sessions is something I keep replaying over and over again ever since I heard about her.

Sam. wrote:I just want him to maybe, you know, work with him SOMEDAY.


Makes sense.

Sam. wrote:
I'm waiting for the day that he does a song with Gaga and y'll be like "Hey, I never doubted her. She's so nice....*herp* *derp*". Make up your mind, guys, it's just a matter of doing a hook or probably a song together. If you like it, listen to it; otherwise don't. It's upto you to and not anybody else.


Hopefully I'll be dead before that happens. Lady Gaga shouldn't be anywhere near rap tracks.
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