" Like I Love You", written by Timberlake, Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams. Most of the album was produced by The Neptunes, with additional collaborators including Brian McKnight, Scott Storch, Timbaland, and The Underdogs. Timberlake released his solo debut studio album, Justified, in November 2002. That's all I really care about.American singer-songwriter Justin Timberlake has written and recorded material for his five studio albums. “I have faith in the idea that there will be another hit, but I'm also totally happy if there's not, because I know that as long as I keep making music that's me, the people who love me for me will stick around. “All I can hope for is songs that feel special and songs that make people feel,” he says. He’s ambivalent about securing a follow-up smash instead, it’s about appealing to the Dreamers-the name his fan army anointed itself-and connecting beyond the spotlight of celebrity. ![]() ![]() He’s recording his debut album and plans to release new music through his own imprint happy sad, stylized as :):, which echoes his thinking that everything lies between the poles of the emotional spectrum. His mother buys him two a year: in June, for his birthday, and for Christmas, and they’re filled with everything from inner thoughts to lyrics from The Beatles, whom he studied during a course at university.įor gnash, though, he’s aware that getting a hit single is nothing compared to staging a career with longevity. Today, he’s an avid journaler, which aids the songwriting process. He took guitar lessons, but gravitated toward the written word, scribbling in journals and using money from his DJ gigs to buy a $120 microphone to help develop his inner thoughts into DIY songs. (His manager just got him a signed vinyl copy of Johnson’s Sleep Through the Static for his birthday this past June, which he placed on the piano in his parents’ living room.)Īfter transferring from Santa Monica College to University of Southern California, he discovered his inner zen, scraping up college credit from meditation classes that had a profound effect on how he copes with the aerobic pace of his current life. He started deejaying when he was 13, scouring CD store racks for edited versions of hip-hop hits to play at high school and house parties, and chased his obsession with Jack Johnson to an internship at his label Brushfire Records. Born in 1993, he spent his childhood falling asleep to his jack-of-all-trades father playing guitar or entertainment industry–wiz mother reading him books that she would adapt for TV movies. Gnash’s pedigree suggests a natural inclination to music. But fast? Yeah, I guess it did happen fast.” So fast, in fact, that the performance on Late Night was O’Brien’s fourth time ever performing live, and first in front of a sizeable audience. “It showed the power of the Internet and how when there's something that people are connecting with, it can take over and be this viral sensation. “My dad always says that luck is just preparation meeting opportunity,” he says. He takes a more philosophical approach to the song’s astronomic rise. Just after he leaves the coffee shop, he heads back to help her tend to garden work.Ĭhance may play a part of it, and strategy was altogether absent. He still lives in his parents’ house, where his mom brings him grilled cheese sandwiches during recording sessions. In person, gnash is relaxed and articulate, overtly polite and considerate, bathed in all black from his vintage *NSYNC tee and black jeans down to his Chuck Taylors. The shock of sudden success should rock the foundation of someone who grew up so close to the beach. “My personality type is one that wasn't quite prepared for this,” says gnash, real name Garrett Nash, his lips curling into a smile that reveals a California-bleached row of teeth. It almost feels like an inside job that the glistening piano ballad, recorded in a makeshift studio in his parents’ garage a few blocks away, snuck in through pop’s back door to linger just inside the outskirts of the mainstream. In just a few months, the 23-year-old has become one of this year’s most unlikely sensations in the music industry, accruing the type of digital currency that could easily rival a Katy Perry or Lady Gaga (214 million listens on Spotify, 49 million views on YouTube, 36 million clicks on Soundcloud). In a quiet back patio of a Los Angeles coffee shop, where jazz music loosely floats through the air, sits gnash, the moody singer-songwriter whose breakthrough single “i hate u, i love u” featuring Olivia O’Brien is likely being played within a half-mile radius.
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