Interview: Swedish Artist/Producer Andreas Stone Talks About His New Single "Street King"
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“I’ve always wanted to make a song that embraces heavy hip-hop beats, reminiscing about the 90s, combined with aggressively sung vocals in the style of Michael Jackson mixed with K-Pop influences. ”
What are some things/people/places that inspire your creativity as an artist and producer?
I often get inspired by movies that I love or beautiful places that I visit. It could also be something I read or a new song I’ve heard. I do love fantasy/history/sci-fi and poetry so there’s a broad variety of things that could inspire me. But also just an amazing sunset.
Congratulations on the release of your new single "Street King"; tell us about your creative process for its development.
Thank you so much and thank you for wanting to interview me. “Street King” might be one of the most fun songs I’ve ever written and developed. I’ve always wanted to make a song that embraces heavy hip-hop beats, reminiscing about the 90s, combined with aggressively sung vocals in the style of Michael Jackson mixed with K-Pop influences.
Back in the days, you couldn’t really swap between genres as easily as today and you also had to follow stylistic rules a little more. That’s just my opinion, but nonetheless, I just decided to do whatever I wanted to do, cause that’s usually the best way to go in the end anyways, haha… I also wanted the lyrics for this song to be more playful.
I was actually super inspired by the movie ”Real Steel”. It has a scene where a young boy is dancing with a robotic boxer, which was super cool. So that’s why I wanted to make a lyric about boxing/fighting.
If you could pick any artist to appear on a remix to "Street King", who would you have featured?
I wish I could answer Michael Jackson, but since he’s not with us anymore I’d say, Michael Bolton. Wow, so hard, there’s so many I’d wish to work with.
From when you started working on music to this point now, what would you say has been your biggest musical accomplishment?
This is a really tricky question to answer. Because, some accomplishments might be big because they have high sales or chart well on a chart. Others might be big on radio or feature a big artist. But then on the other hand, the first song I got released or the release of a very personal song could feel just as big and accomplished to me.
But I could definitely mention one accomplishment I’m very proud of. I wrote a song with a very close friend of mine called Ricky Hanley when his father sadly passed away. The song was called ”Never Got To Say Goodbye”. This song was recorded by a big Korean boy band called EXO and released as a Christmas song called ”Miracles In December”, which became a super big hit. Later on, I released the demo version of this song too. I’m equally proud of both releases but in different ways.
If you had to describe your music to a stranger in three words, which ones would you select?
Heartfelt, Honest, Melancholic
Do you have a favorite musical genre to create music for? If so, why?
I actually love all genres. I’ve always loved the quote: “There are no bad genres only bad songs”.
I love everything from ballads and classical music, hard rock, A&R, country, R&B, 80s, EDM to K-pop and J-Pop and every genre I’ve forgotten too, haha.