ABC/Heidi GutmanAlessia Cara is busy working on her sophomore album, but she’s been top of mind over the summer thanks to her smash collaboration with Zedd, “Stay.” She says the EDM-flavored tune was a bit of a change in artistic direction for her, but she’s glad she did it.
“It was really different for me, it’s a lot bolder than my usual stuff,” Alessia tells ABC Radio. “But I thought if I was gonna do something [with another artist], I wanna sing on a song that I really believe in and work with on a song I believe in and work with an artist, or a deejay, that I really like.”
Alessia says she and Zedd hooked up the collabo the way everything is done these days: online.
“He actually emailed [the song] to me which is, y’know, very millennial of us to do,” she laughs. “Like, ‘Let me just send it to you online!’ But, I mean, we’ve wanted to work together for a really long time.”
“He just sent me the beginning of the song that was written, and he was like, ‘Hey, do you wanna finish this, do you wanna do it with me?'” she adds. “And just hearing it and listening to the beginning of it, I knew that it was a really great song.” The video for the song went on to win the Best Dance Video trophy at the MTV VMAs last month.
Despite the success of “Stay,” Alessia says she’s not necessarily going to incorporate EDM sounds into her next album, but she does says she’ll do “some fun stuff.” We’re not likely to hear any new music from the Canadian star until 2018, unfortunately.
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