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Malcolm Todd returns to Genius to break down his new single “Gun To My Head,” diving into his creative process, the sacrifices behind his music, what music means to him, and why he treats bridges like a separate song.

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00:00I think 99% of people are going to break up with someone and then get back in the mix
00:05and make it way worse than it is, and a true, mature Jedi would just let it be, let it
00:11breathe.
00:12If it's supposed to come back around, it will.
00:22It was one of the songs you make after you spend a whole day trying something that kind
00:27of works and kind of doesn't work.
00:28It's the end of the night and you just start humming something and everyone's like,
00:32we should have been doing this all day, this is amazing.
00:59That first record deal I kind of actually spent with my girlfriend and then by the time
01:04I was re-signing the second one it was like I was looking at so much more ahead of me.
01:08It was like a turning of the page where I wasn't going to be able to be the best partner.
01:14And then you break up and you have your record deal and you're kind of sitting there like
01:18feeling like a little bit of an idiot.
01:20These empty words of encouragement are really nice in this studio where I have no girlfriend.
01:42It's the tales as old as time.
01:43You know in your heart you're not supposed to be together, but if you get tapped on the
01:47shoulder and your person's right over there, that's definitely a slippery slope, but an easy
01:54one to slip into.
02:07If it's not supposed to work out, all you can do is really play house and it might feel so
02:13good in the moment, but then you kind of snap out of it and you're like, oh well you got
02:19to go here
02:19and I got to go here now and we just like reignited something that's going to make us feel really
02:25confused and we can't do anything about it and it's like damn, maybe we should have just kept it PG.
02:58I don't know, the grass is always greener on the other side and that's not the truest thing of all
03:02time. I don't know what is. You're like, let's get single, let's get crazy and then you're just on
03:06dates and you're like realizing there's no one out there for you. I'm kind of just laughing like,
03:11yeah, that's great. I'm getting hammered in my hotel room and I'm going on dates with people that
03:16aren't laughing at my jokes and if you're not going to laugh at my jokes, I'm like 40% sure
03:21they're
03:21funny. I'm immediately going to start joking like when I meet someone and within 10 seconds,
03:26we're going to find out if like you can hang or you can't hang. I say something super sarcastic
03:30and they're like, oh yeah, really? Wow. It's so cool. I'm like, oh, I got to fly out of here
03:34so fast.
03:46I don't need you any further. That's a lie. Why did I go when I had you right here? Oh,
03:59you should know. Bridges are awesome. It's like, you just have like a, it feels like a separate song
04:05for like 20 seconds. I find myself yearning for those 20 seconds and I'm replaying the song
04:12just so juiced on the fact that that part of the song that's three quarters of the way through
04:17is going to come. I've always wanted to say, let me take you to the bridge. And it's funny,
04:22we had rolled through the whole album and made pretty much the whole thing and I never said it
04:27and I never really thought of it. And then at the last second, I was listening to that song and
04:31we
04:31were going through it in the studio and we just realized that that's the let me take you to the
04:35bridge moment. Full body chills. I mean, I'm going to start getting emotional right now,
04:40so just cut the cameras. That's the beauty of it. You just are having a blast and exciting yourself
04:48and pushing yourself. That's what making music is. For me, it's just like making my favorite song
04:53and then making my new favorite song the next day. And then everyone can decide what they want to do
04:58with.
04:58You
04:58you
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