00:00Hello.
00:01MNEK, hi.
00:03Huge fan.
00:04I kind of match your- Wait.
00:07I'm kind of matching your- Wait.
00:09Banana?
00:09Is it lime?
00:10Mm-hm.
00:11Lime?
00:12Lemon.
00:12It's lemon.
00:13Oh my gosh.
00:14So maybe I'm colorblind, MNEK.
00:16Ever think of that?
00:17Maybe.
00:18Who knows?
00:19We got him.
00:20We got him.
00:22How does it feel to be here tonight?
00:25And be honest.
00:26It feels amazing.
00:27It's slightly overwhelming because it's like a lot of people, but it's great to be here
00:32for my work, you know?
00:34I'm nominated for Midnight Sun with Zara.
00:36And can we just say, first of all, Zara Larsson is freed from the Kia Asylum.
00:42Yes.
00:42And we are so thankful that you have shown the world how talented this pop princess really
00:49is.
00:49How does that feel?
00:51I think she's shown herself how talented she is, and I'm very happy to help assist in
00:57that I exec produced the album.
00:59I helped write every song on it, and Midnight Sun was one of the first ones.
01:03And it's definitely testament to the work she's put in, and also the work that we put
01:08in as far as the song being nominated this year.
01:10And also Flo are nominated for best progressive R&B album that exec produced.
01:15So it's been a very good year.
01:17You know how to write great songs.
01:21No.
01:22And I mean that.
01:23You had an EP, Small Talk.
01:25Yeah.
01:25Oh my God.
01:26I remember those days.
01:28Okay.
01:28I would be on iTunes searching around, and I said, who's this?
01:31Well, that's MNEK.
01:35That's amazing.
01:36And what is the secret to the perfect pop song?
01:40I think it's just one that you can't get out of your head.
01:43I really do think that, you know, there's sometimes I catch myself overthinking it and
01:48overwriting it.
01:49Sometimes the best songs just come out, and they're just like exactly as they were when
01:53you left the studio.
01:54They feel good.
01:56They don't even have to make sense.
01:57It just has to feel good.
01:59Okay.
02:00There's plenty of artists left in the Key Asylum.
02:02What's your advice to break out these days?
02:06Work with MNEK.
02:07There it is.
02:09That's your ticket out of the asylum.
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