When the music producer Blake Slatkin found out he had his first No. 1 hit, he told his mom. “And she was, like, ‘That’s awesome.’ And then she was, like, ‘You have a bunch of dishes to do from last night.’ ”
The other day, in West Hollywood, the twenty-five-year-old music producer Blake Slatkin stuck his hand into a doll house on his mantelpiece. “This is an exact miniature replica of my old recording studio,” he said, gesturing at a row of lamb-chop-size guitars and a shrunken photo grid of musicians he’d worked with. The former studio was at his mother’s house in Westwood, where he’d lived until January. Now he was on his own. “I’m very slowly learning how to be an adult,” he said.
Being a hitmaker is taxing. “Every time I get in the studio now, I feel like the label’s just, like, ‘O.K., give us another one of these.’ It’s, like, ‘Dance, monkey, dance.’ ” He sat down at a monitor to show how he’d devised a section in a song by PinkPantheress. He held a note on a keyboard, then duplicated it electronically on the screen. “You can take the reverb out and in,” he said. “It’s all these little subconscious things that make you be, like, Oh, something’s a little bit more exciting now.”
Sometimes it’s off the cuff. “That song ‘Stay’ that I made, the Bieber song, we were all just chilling at my studio at my mom’s. LAROI was in the area and he was, like, ‘I’m coming over.’ We were with Charlie Puth, and the first thing he played on the keyboard was that riff. We never changed it, even a little bit.” He went on, “And basically, in just one take, the whole song was done in thirty minutes. And then we were, like, O.K., cool, let’s go get hibachi.
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