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00:00writing and performing and just sort of existing with it i think it's way more

00:06interesting to step out of your comfort zone and not have to sing about things that are like

00:12deeply connected within your like personal life and soul

00:15i'm ed sheeran and i'm here with my songwriting partner blake slatkin to talk about our songwriting

00:29process to deadline about a song drive that we did for the f1 movie

00:33i had seen a screening of the movie and uh joe had us over jerry and joe had us over to his office

00:59and we saw it on like the full screen and we kind of got the adrenaline that you get when you see

01:03that movie it's like it's you feel insane the entire time you feel like you're part of the movie

01:07and the whole thing was like okay we just want to make a song that gives us that same feeling as the

01:14movie we had been wanting to work with john for a while i've been friends with john for for years

01:18ed had been friends with john for years so that was really natural and it was a pretty easy call of

01:23like okay let's make a rock song and let's call one i'm one of the greatest living guitarists we

01:28all got in the room and it was kind of just like pull up a distorted guitar hear what happens

01:32and that was kind of the first thing that john played and then the first thing that ed sang

01:37was all the initial melodies for it it kind of just it really just came out i think initially

01:42we knew we knew the scene that we were writing the song for uh which was the final scene that

01:48takes you into the end credits uh we'd seen the doom buggy i mean we'd seen the movie but we knew

01:53what scene it was and i think very much we wanted it to be high optane high energy both vocally and

02:00musically and guitar riff based it needed to be a song that reflected the movie it's so cool to make

02:07music for film because it's it's a full different uh area of inspiration and you're you're making music

02:13not for you but to serve the movie i think we were all so excited about it and we're all such fans of

02:19the movie and we're all pretty aligned on what scene we wanted to make it for so when you go into

02:23the studio with that much excitement yeah it you you hope it happens like it happened and it happened

02:30just so easily when you get to do something as cool as making the music for the f1 movie it affords you

02:38some cool calls you get to kind of just like dream up like you know we we started making the song we

02:44already had john and ed and it's like okay who's the greatest rock and roll drummer of all time and

02:50dave is a hundred percent in that conversation who's the greatest bass player of all time pino is a hundred

02:55percent in that conversation and it was kind of just like you know it's it's like as as like kids and

03:02just as fans of of music we're just like okay well we kind of have an opportunity to build a dream

03:07band right now why wouldn't we why wouldn't you text dave girl and be like hey anyway you want to

03:12do this and it was an immediate yes and and same with pino and the day we recorded it we did everything

03:18live and it was just dave john and pino in a room just three of some of the best musicians in the

03:24entire world just doing what they do best it was really important that we did it live you know we did

03:28like six or seven takes i think of it and then it was it was just done it was it was it was very very

03:36cool to watch i will never forget that i i gave ed uh a framed picture of the session sheet that just

03:43says you know guitar john mayer bass uh pino paladino drums dave grohl vocalist ed sheer like

03:49it's just it's insane to us as fans of music to even see that and to have been in that room it was

03:55it was very i'll never forget blake uh you know lives in los angeles and john lives in los angeles and

04:01as does dave grohl and you know paladino and rami and yeah i just sort of was across the process but

04:08i think we were lucky enough to be sort of brought in as the first musical artists to be working on

04:13it so we got cherry pick the one that we wanted to do um and yeah that was the that was the scene

04:19that we all sort of agreed on would be the most fun to make a song for it's different because i think

04:24it just you know we were we were in the middle of working on ed's album when we did this and it's a

04:30really cool way to not come in and be like what am i going through right now what's making me feel

04:36vulnerable what's making me feel nervous what's making me feel good um it's it's a very cool way

04:42to kind of step out of yourself and and look at something you know we were such big fans of movies

04:48in general and we're such a big fan of f1 that it's just a very cool exercise uh to to make music

04:56kind of under someone else's story uh and and for that reason it makes it so i wouldn't say easier

05:03but but different in a very refreshing way well i think it sort of had to reflect sunny's journey

05:09throughout the film but also be like celebratory of the end of the movie and it just feel like

05:15you know a kind of we did it song the title was always drive it was always going to be drive like

05:20you can't make a song for an f1 film and not mention like pedal to the metal kind of you know

05:27aspects of it so the verses are very much um the narration of the story i think and what he's

05:35thinking in his head and the chorus is just a kind of uplifting uh euphoric rock moment

05:42try

05:43just

05:45it's just exciting it's exciting it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's let's

06:12it's it's an underdog story of uh someone who is essentially like a down and out and had the

06:19opportunity to be great when he was younger and didn't achieve that and essentially had started

06:25his plan b and he'd just gone that ain't happening for me and then being given the shot

06:30and achieving and it's uh you know it's something it's very like similar to to the music industry

06:37we have like big dips and big falls we you know we have some years where it works and some years

06:43where it doesn't we have songs that work songs that don't albums that work albums that don't and

06:49um you know it's uh it's a very adrenaline like music as a whole is quite adrenaline filled so

06:55it's a it's a similar thing i'm not saying that i'm like sunny and i've had 30 years of doing the

07:02indy car i just think it was an exciting story everyone loves an underdog story everyone loves

07:08the sports drama you know he had a rival in it that you're also kind of rooting for as well and it was

07:14a great movie it was really really well done i think we had just never seen the sport represented

07:21like this and i'm i'm an f1 fan and i love drive to survive on netflix and i think the way that joe

07:27and everyone worked on this movie captured the sport it had never been done on film before and

07:34as a fan of it you know seeing it seeing it be brought to so many different people in so many

07:40different ways and like kind of thinking of this being the first exposure of f1 as a sport to so

07:45many people that felt like a really cool thing to be a part of writing and performing and just sort

07:51of existing with it i think it's way more interesting to step out of your comfort zone and

07:57not have to sing about things that are like deeply connected within your like personal life and soul

08:02and heart and stuff like that it's just it's a fucking cool movie you know i got to experience a

08:08similar thing on uh the the hobbit i did the song for the desolation of smaug and it's the same thing

08:13you know like i can't relate to being a dwarf living in a fucking mine uh with a dragon stealing all of my

08:21family goals but it was really fun to pretend that i could and uh yeah it's fun um it's fun it's fun

08:29writing songs for for movies you can't do it all the time otherwise it's like not special but this

08:33is like a it's an intensely special movie um and it's done in such a way that like captures the

08:39intensity of a formula one race which shows you from the perspective of the driver which we don't

08:45really ever get to do or see um so yeah it was uh it was yeah super fun to do i also think it gives ed

08:52a really fun way of like like people don't realize that ed can sing like this and people ed has always

08:58been someone where you're like wait he can do that too and i when i first heard ed doing these

09:03melodies i was like oh my god like when you look back at it makes so much sense like the guy plays

09:07two stadiums every weekend everywhere he goes in the entire world he's like a full rock star but

09:13you know most people wouldn't necessarily think of ed as like someone who can rock like this and it

09:19it wouldn't have really made sense on his album doing something like this but ed is such a fan of

09:24rock and a fan of this type of music and it's such a cool opportunity to you know flex a different area

09:31of your creativity and your artistry i think when you're creating a song for a movie that whilst we

09:38were making the song and the movie was being edited and made everyone was like there's a lot of

09:43pressure on this movie's shoulders it cost a hell of a lot of money to do it's a big big big gamble for

09:48uh the movie studio for the actors for the producers for blah blah blah and i feel like pressure is a good

09:54thing i do think pressure is a good thing and it makes everyone bring their their a-game and we knew

09:59going into this we couldn't like phone in the song we had to make the right song for the right part of

10:04the movie and it had to fit and be as good as the movie was blake spent a long long long time

10:10producing that song a long long long time mixing that song we spent countless hours sort of going

10:16back and forth on lyrics and is this the right thing to say is this the right thing at the end of

10:20the day i think it captures what the movie is about the movie was obviously hugely successful which

10:25helps and i'm really really proud of what we did i'm known as being an acoustic balladeer so i think

10:32my fans are a bit like what the fuck is this um but you know i i i like doing that i like i like

10:38having moments in my career doing doing different things it's boring to just to be a lineal artist

10:43you've got to try other things so that yeah the reactions like say i'm an italian restaurant and my

10:48fans are used to having meatballs and uh spaghetti every year that they love this is us putting in a

10:56fucking taco in there you know like it's it's it's the people are just like this isn't what i'm used to

11:02but okay it will i don't know do you know i mean that's a goddamn good taco it's not going to slam

11:09with people in my audience that like fucking love perfect this is a song for the movie you know this

11:14if people like the formula on a movie they'll like this song that was the thing that we were going for

11:19i wasn't going i need to write a song that's going to be track four on my album i'm like well i need to

11:23write a song that's the end credits for the f1 movie it's just a different part of your brain to use

11:28and i think that's the best way to think about it is you don't want to you don't want to kind of go

11:32half-assed in any direction because you're trying to fit so many things into one box it's like we

11:37were given this unbelievable opportunity of getting to make a song the end title of of one of the most

11:44successful movies of the year we're not gonna when we're making that we're not gonna think well okay how

11:48does this fit into this thing and how does this fit into this thing it's just like we're we've been

11:52given a job and we want to service the movie as well as we possibly can and i think if we had if

11:58we had thought about too many other things and and just overthought it it wouldn't have been as good

12:02it's really just about making the best song for the film and to me when i watch the movie and when the

12:08song comes on at the end it does give me that feeling of like fuck yeah like that's like the that's

12:13like a perfect musical ending it feels feels so cool and it feels like the movie and that's all all we

12:20wanted to do commit to the bit commit to the bit thanks so much for having us man that's it blake i love

12:26you love you more

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