Meet the Secret R&B Weapon Behind NewJeans’ Catchiest Hits

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  • It was one of the last songs we wrote. And me and Fine, we just had a good playfulness in just shooting ideas. So we were just singing with our phones [recording voice memos] and we were just throwing around ideas. And then we just, I don’t know… how do you make stuff up? You hear the beat and then you just go with it and whatever comes naturally to you, you just sing it. (View Highlight)
  • That was also one of the tracks where we were just throwing stuff around, playing. I think that’s the theme—it’s play with these songs. We were playing so much. It’s not like we [were instructed] like, ‘The lyrics need to be about this or this.’ It’s just do whatever. So it’s just getting a blank canvas and you just throw some color on there. (View Highlight)

title: “Meet the Secret R&B Weapon Behind NewJeans’ Catchiest Hits” author: “Raymond Ang” url: ”https://www.gq.com/story/newjeans-get-up-songwriter-erika-de-casier-interview?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email” date: 2023-12-19 source: reader tags: media/articles

Meet the Secret R&B Weapon Behind NewJeans’ Catchiest Hits

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  • It was one of the last songs we wrote. And me and Fine, we just had a good playfulness in just shooting ideas. So we were just singing with our phones [recording voice memos] and we were just throwing around ideas. And then we just, I don’t know… how do you make stuff up? You hear the beat and then you just go with it and whatever comes naturally to you, you just sing it. (View Highlight)
  • That was also one of the tracks where we were just throwing stuff around, playing. I think that’s the theme—it’s play with these songs. We were playing so much. It’s not like we [were instructed] like, ‘The lyrics need to be about this or this.’ It’s just do whatever. So it’s just getting a blank canvas and you just throw some color on there. (View Highlight)