Trying to follow it with anomaly part two, it never works. “I’ve been lucky to have a few in my career that are just anomalies. “You can’t use ‘Old Town Road’ as a roadmap for another song,” he says. Tedder, who produced “Bring U Down,” felt similarly. “Wes knew he couldn’t put a project together with the same song. “It was about bringing in producers who would do more than what would everyone would expect - just start a loop and throw in an 808,” says James Supreme, an A&R at Universal Music Publishing Group who helped place Lil Nas X in sessions with the producers Take a Daytrip (“Panini,” “Rodeo”) and Bizness Boi (“Kick It”). The key for 7, Lil Nas X’s just-released debut EP, was to ignore the hit - and to give this artist the same opportunities for in-studio trial-and-error that would be afforded to any promising 20-year-old who didn’t have the biggest song on the planet. This song is “ one of the most dominant Hot 100 Number One’s of the last 25 years ,” according to Billboard, making Drake’s single-week streaming record look puny and keeping Taylor Swift from the number one spot. Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” is less than seven months old, but it’s already a calling-card - a generation of kids will always know the words - and a cash-cow: Estimates suggest that the single has generated more than $5 million. It’s only downhill from here, man - we better do something!'” “I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is the best day you could ever have. It was Ron Perry, saying, ‘Congrats, you are officially Number One.’ He stopped, looked at his phone, looked back at me, and went, ‘Dude, I just hit Number One!’ and gave me the biggest hug. “As he was walking through the threshold of my studio, his phone dinged. “He was holding a bunch of horse balloons that his label had given him to celebrate ‘Old Town Road,'” Tedder recalls. Still, he’s never had an experience quite like the first time he hit the studio with Lil Nas X. Ryan Tedder has written songs for some of the most popular artists in the world: Beyoncé, Adele, Taylor Swift.
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