I'm coming from a Ginuwine and Usher background: slow and smooth songs. And that's why I really connected to Sam Cooke, because he was just very smooth. It's not like the James Brown types, which is all great stuff, but he was totally set apart from those guys.
I love '90s and '00s R&B, and those songs go on for ever.
I don't like party music. I like emotional music.
I'm a big fan of songs like Joe Cocker's 'You Are So Beautiful' and Eric Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight' - songs that go straight to the point.
I like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift. I love pop music, but I also like Sam Smith's slow songs. That would be more to dance to. I think dancers like different genres of music, compared to just a regular person.
For my shows, I don't play too many slow songs.
I have experimented with various genres of music, whether its rock, pop, slow songs, etc.
I've seen bands come out and begin their concerts with these long, slow, boring songs. Are they kidding, or what?
You know One Direction do a lot of up tempo songs, but when they did that Ed Sheeran song 'Little Things,' that was probably their biggest song off their last album, so it shows you that a ballad never goes out of fashion.
And I'm the biggest country fan there is, but I'm always a little cautious of a slower song or just a song with subject matter.
My strength has always been slow songs, so I never deviated from that, I always took care of my base and that's just doing slow songs and just pouring out my heart in songs.
I love ballads. I'm not into fast songs. I love to put my heart and all of my feelings into a song.
Asleep by the Smiths Vapour Trail by Ride Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum Dear Prudence by the Beatles Gypsy by Suzanne Vega Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues Daydream by Smashing Pumpkins Dusk by Genesis (before Phil Collins was even in the band!) MLK by U2 Blackbird by the Beatles Landslide by Fleetwood Mac Asleep by the Smiths (again!) -Charlie's mixtape
When I first started writing, I wrote really sad, emotional songs which were all slow.
Some of my favorite songs are slow songs, like Guns N' Roses' 'November Rain.'
I think it'd be great if Prince made an album of just romantic, slow ballads.
I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.
The worst thing for me when I go to a concert is a whole bunch of ballads. You get bored.
From all the years that I've been in the business, you know that ballads are what impact. Mid-tempos are great, you can sell some records on 'em, but when it comes down to it, ballads are the meat-and-potatoes on the album.
