![]() ![]() And if that’s all Gaga’s doing-recontextualizing previously existing gay-inflected pop tropes-so what? Lady Gaga's Applause Remix EP is out on October 1.As for the issue of originality or “copying,” I’ll again direct your attention to those movie-mimicking drag queens: Some of the best art I’ve ever experienced involved nothing new but the context. We were writing some stuff together for a couple of days, but nothing’s really come of it yet. I've been producing for some hip hop artists and singers, and I’ve worked with Evian Christ too. I’ve been working on a handful of other projects outside of the band for the past four or five months. It's my favourite Gaga song.Ĭorin Roddick: Probably just try and reconstruct it in our own twisted pop formula!ĭD: What else are you up to at the moment?Ĭorin Roddick: We're working on a new record, which is going slow, but it’s going good. Which Lady Gaga song would you cover?Ĭorin Roddick: Probably “Telephone”. I don’t see why you would have anyone remixing you that you don’t personally approve.ĭD: You covered that Soulja Boy song “Grammy” earlier this year. I would think that someone of her stature controls every detail of her artistic output. She included us on a playlist before, I think it was a Spotify playlist. But if I’m gonna do a remix it might as well be for Lady Gaga.ĭD: Do you know if it was a personal request from Gaga?Ĭorin Roddick: I think so. We’ve been asked to do a lot of remixes over the past couple of years, but I haven’t done one in a very long time because they often just end up as a blog piece that gets quickly forgotten about. And they ended up dropping the song early so I got to hear it and I was like ‘okay let’s do it’. So I was like, 'assuming I like the song– let’s do it'. I always hit walls.ĭD: How long has this been in the works? Since before the single and video premiered?Ĭorin Roddick: No, I wasn’t allowed to hear the song until it was out.ĭD: Okay, so they were being super secretive.Ĭorin Roddick: Yeah, unless I went to LA I wasn’t able to hear the song. I got stuck at a few points there was maybe a period of almost a week where nothing really happened on it 'cause I was just getting frustrated, but that happens to me pretty much every time I’m trying to finish a song. I didn’t think it would take that long but I kinda kept going over it again. From there I start kind of building basslines and chords around it, so I think some of the chord progressions and stuff I ended up using were totally different from the original song.Ĭorin Roddick: I chipped away at it for about two weeks. With a remix I don’t think any of the original instrumental should be used, so I just listened to vocals on repeat and took it back down to a blank canvas – just acapella, to imagine what could be around it. I wanted to see if I could just craft something around that in a way that it would make sense to me.ĭD: So was the first step deconstruction? There's so much in the original production.Ĭorin Roddick: The first thing I did was delete everything but the vocals. ![]() I listen to a lot of pop music in my spare time, and I just thought the chorus was just huge and had a powerful delivery and melody in it. ![]() It’s such a challenge, not only to take a song that’s been so immaculately produced and try and put our spin on it, but also to even tread in that territory. DD: Was remixing Lady Gaga an intimidating prospect?Ĭorin Roddick (Purity Ring): Yeah totally. ![]()
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