The one thing I've always demanded of the records I've made is that they be danceable.
I love creating music that makes people dance, smile and have a good time.
I just listen to my Katy Perry. It's just her mood toward her music. She's always happy and perky. So, I mean, I like to be happy. Might as well listen to happy music.
I'm not trying to compete with any other revival soul acts. It's just Leon Bridges, a kid from Fort Worth trying to be himself and give people hope. It's great music to dance to and just love.
I like big, soaring melodies and fun, splashy lyrics. Maybe like what Blondie would do in 2013.
As much as a lot of my music is very R&B, there's a bounce to it that obviously makes it easier to perform live. It's upbeat and uptempo.
I love pop music. It's just fun, and it feels good, and it's easy.
My album is very uplifting and positive and fun. That was my mission - to get people up on their feet and escape the seriousness of life.
We need more pop songs and more empowering songs.
Hanson plays music that is very much a part of everything.
I like challenging people. I love pop music that can just throw you off.
I want to make people feel certain ways when they listen to my music. Whether it's partying or going through relationship problems or grinding or getting dressed and feeling fly. I want to be who I am and have emotion in my music that affects people.
People just want to have a bit of fun, something uplifting, funny, that's got a melody to it. That's what we try to do.
I'm always surprised that I'm still around funk and that people are still into it.
Arcade Fire always churns out music that makes me want to move.
My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.
'Let's Get It On' is a classic Motown single, endlessly repeatable and always enjoyable.
Everything I do got that bounce to it, that addictive, repetitive sound.
I like clever songs. I like songs that make people think and I try to have substance in all my records, even with 'Sweet Dreams' how it was a club record and it was up tempo, but it was melodic and it was, like, lyrical.
Funk is part of who I am.
I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.
'Mr. Brownstone' is always a fun song to play because it's got that beat, and you see people bouncing.
I like Badshah's songs, as they are very cool, catchy, and very young. I think that's very important... It's connecting with the youth.
I'd been listening to some old '70s disco, soul stuff, and I thought, 'Let's go into the studio and do something different. Let's do something that's super unashamedly pop and fun and danceable.' 'Trouble' is what we did. It's something that wrote itself.
