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DESTIN CONRAD made his Genius debut deep diving into his song “KISSING IN PUBLIC.” The intimate single is off his album 'LOVE ON DIGITAL.' On today’s episode of Verified, the singer-songwriter shares why it was one of his favorite songs to make, how he rarely kisses in public himself, his love for musical bridges, and more.

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00:00I feel like the main key point to this song is PDA and it being special and sacred and
00:07not something that you do often, but it's like, we be kissing in public.
00:11We be outside with it.
00:12It's different you in a crib kissing somebody.
00:15We are outside kissing in public, people see us like, I fuck with you.
00:17So kissing in public, I wrote in Tulum with my good friend K1, shout out to K1 and my
00:31friend Matt Keen.
00:32I was upstairs, I was like doing something, probably working on something else and I went
00:36downstairs.
00:37They had the beat for kissing in public pulled up and K1 was just like humming some stuff.
00:42I think she had that first like, and I was like, ooh.
00:47We sat down and we fleshed it out.
00:49I feel like we were just going line by line and we just started writing it.
00:52It was so easy.
00:53I love working with K1.
00:54She's one of my favorite people to write with.
00:56That's probably one of my favorite songs to make on my album.
00:58Shout out to them.
00:59Shout out Matt Keen, K1.
01:06I wish I could be kissing in public right now, but I'm in London, LA.
01:11So it's just really like fantasizing PDA, really.
01:17I be letting stuff slide.
01:41When I don't let it slide, I'm not letting it slide.
01:43Not letting it slide at all.
01:44But when I let it slide, I let it slide.
01:45I'm a Cancer.
01:46I'm a little passive.
01:48Depends on how fly that is.
01:59People probably hear that and be like, damn, things don't change.
02:02But it's like, no.
02:03Things don't change.
02:04It feels familiar.
02:05It's like we picked up where we left off.
02:06It is fun when you can experience somebody and it be like a new feeling, but it's also
02:11so nice when you don't see somebody that you're into and you share an experience with them
02:16and then you leave them and then you come back and it's like, whoa, we picked up literally
02:19right where we left off.
02:20So I feel like that line was just like, things don't change when I'm with you.
02:22Still the same me.
02:23Still the same you.
02:32I like to think I'm controlling shit, but I can be very submissive.
02:36No pun intended.
02:37I be wearing the pants sometime.
02:39A lot of the time.
02:40At the same time, I don't.
02:42Like.
03:01I'm not going to lie.
03:02You will not see me kissing a lot of people in public.
03:04If you have, it was a very rare occasion.
03:05I'm not going to talk about it.
03:06When I do, it means I really like you.
03:09I'm not just out here.
03:10I can't be just out here kissing people.
03:12But if I am kissing in public, it means something.
03:14I feel like that's what I wanted to convey.
03:16It's like, damn, we kissing the public.
03:18It gotta be something.
03:19It gotta be something serious.
03:20But I like watching people kiss.
03:21I be like, oh.
03:22Like when I'm driving past and I see somebody kissing the sidewalk, I be like, oh.
03:25Damn, that's cute.
03:39Oh boy.
03:40Kissing in public.
03:44You know what we on.
03:45You know what was just outside kissing the public.
03:47Like, you about to call me late.
03:49Like, let's go out.
03:50Actually, I want to go to the club.
03:52Let's get PDA because this is rare and I want to do it again.
03:56Like, I feel like that's what that part of the song means.
03:58It's like, you're really about to act like we not out here.
04:01Like, it's like when somebody kind of like, try you a little bit.
04:03Kissing in public.
04:07Kissing in fucking.
04:12Kissing in public.
04:17Go!
04:18I love bridges.
04:20I love a bridge.
04:21I want to be a bridge.
04:22Shout out to bridges.
04:23I want to see more bridges in R&B specifically.
04:26I don't have a lot of bridges.
04:27So like, this song I was just really proud of.
04:29I'm like, wow, a bridge.
04:30Like, I get to have a bridge.
04:31Call me Bridget.
04:32I am a bridge.
04:33I'm the bridge that leads you to where you need to go.
04:36Shout out to K1.
04:37Her and Matt Keen really are like a big reason why this song is as long as it is.
04:42People hate me for it.
04:43A lot of my songs are two minutes.
04:45I have ADHD.
04:46Very crippling ADHD.
04:47And I cannot work on things for too long.
04:49So when I start to like, work on a song for too long, my brain just, I'm like, I'm done.
04:53But yeah, shout out to them.
04:54They're honestly the reason why this song has a bridge.
04:56And I love bridges.
05:00Kissing in fucking.
05:01Ha ha.
05:02That's what it is.
05:03It's in the lyrics.
05:04We grown.
05:05That's all I'm gonna say.
05:06Okay.
05:07So let's go ahead.
05:08So let's go ahead.
05:09Okay.
05:10So let's go ahead.
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