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When her dog Tarzan ran into the studio, Cabello’s producer Mike Sabath yelled with excitement. Listen for his reaction on “Don’t Go Yet.”
Eilish revealed over IG Live that on Happier Than Ever, you can hear her dog Shark barking. “He actually barked in the middle of a take and we kept it and repeated it,” she said.
Rodrigo wrote her post-breakup ballad “Driver’s License” while crying in her living room, she told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe.
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In the 2019 Jonas Brothers documentary Happiness Continues, Jonas revealed that he wrote “Hesitate” as “vows before I wrote my vows” to wife Sophie Turner. So romantic!
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The Panic! at the Disco singer told radio host Zach Sang that he powered through a 104-degree fever to work on Taylor Swift’s song “Me!” in the studio.
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For “Juice,” Lizzo recruited some of her best friends to record the song’s chorus, songwriter Theron Thomas said in a New York Times “Diary of a Song” video.
On her album Treat Myself, Trainor needed someone yelling in the background so she got her mom, brother and husband Daryl Sabara to participate, she explained on The Tonight Show.
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Halsey set the record straight to Glamour about the inspiration behind their song “Without Me,” explaining that it was a way to deal with their breakup with G-Eazy.
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At a secret iHeartRadio concert for fans, Lorde revealed that she was brought to tears listening to Rihanna’s “Higher” and thus was moved to write “Liability.”
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Styles’ first solo song “Sign of the Times” actually had an elaborate backstory about a mother dying in childbirth, the former One Directioner told Rolling Stone.
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In “Wildest Dreams,” Swift’s own heartbeat is the beat used to set the song’s tempo. Check out the liner notes for 1989 if you don’t believe us!
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"I wrote the song in about 10 minutes with [producer] RedOne. And it was my first time being in a Hollywood studio,” Gaga told Heat magazine in 2009 about “Just Dance.”
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