Ryan Tedder on Tate McRae's "Housewife"

0:00 All right, let's get to Ryan Tedder. This guy, busy.

0:02 Brother from another mother. They cannot keep us apart.

0:05 Tate, McRae, new music, Housewife. Dude, what a great track. Can you give us some background? How did you get, weren't you just working on that last night?

0:16 We started this song back in like, I think February or January. It was like the second or third session for her next project we started. I had Julia Michaels in the room, one of the all-time greats, my writer, Grant Poutine, and me and Tate. And we were messing around with an instrumental and I don't know if it was Julia or Tate, but somebody just blurted out, um, you know, I just, uh, I just want to make a lot of money, be a good housewife as a, and I heard it and started cracking up. I was like, that is such a t-shirt like that. I'm kind of one of the things I say, like with good songs, I'll always say if the, if the tag or the lyric or the course is right, I'll say that's a t-shirt hook. And that means, like, you could take that sentence,

0:55 put it on a T-shirt, and people would probably wear it. So when I heard that, I started laughing. And one of the rules of songwriting is if a lyric makes you laugh because of how absurd it is, it's probably the right lyric. It's sticky. And that's kind of how it started.

1:07 So Tedder says to me, Ryan Tedder here says to me, he said one day he was telling me a story about, was it Mission Impossible? Right? Mission Impossible 6, 8.

1:13 9, 10. No, no, no. It was Top Gun. Top Gun.

1:15 Top Gun. Maverick. So he gets a call from Tom Cruise. hey brother need a song you got anything how long did it take you to come up with the song after that phone call Uh.

1:25 He showed me the beach volleyball, football scene from top gun too, from Maverick. And I had an, I, I had an idea kind of right there. I mean, Miles Taylor's abs, you know, the whole, the whole moment. And I had an idea kind of right then. And the next day it was exactly four hours. The next day I sent him, I ain't worried. And I was like, Hey, this song starts with a whistle. I hope you like whistling.

1:44 This is the track we're talking about here that he did. That's so crazy.

1:48 He did that in hours.

1:49 All right, bro. I'll talk to you soon. Stay in touch. Thanks again for calling.

1:52 You guys have a good day. Have a good day. Bye-bye.

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