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AP: You're one of five songwriters listed on Ke$ha's current hit single, "Die Young." How did the collaboration come about? Ruess: I just wrote the hook and I wrote it for something else, and then a couple of producers got a hold of it and worked on the rest with her. I was not involved in anything other than the (hook). Somewhere around the world there's me singing that chorus. AP: Do you want to do more of that? Ruess: I don't do it that often. Jeff and I did the Pink song ("Just Give Me a Reason") and I think we have a couple other things on the horizon, but it's not something that I, I don't know. It takes definitely a certain artist for me to want to do it. I don't write songs that often and for "Some Nights," I wrote them songs like a month before we went into the studio, and a lot of them were fueled by meeting Jeff and getting really inspired. And for me, I don't write that often, and when I do, I like to keep it for fun. AP: How's the tour going? Ruess: I write the set list every night before we go onstage. I like to change it as much as possible. I spent my month off figuring out what new songs we're going to play. We're going to be adding a cover, adding songs off of "Some Nights" that we never really played before and expanding the set list. I've been studying Coldplay and U2, and how those bands do their set lists and how they choose songs and their light shows and everything like that. I got really heavy into all of that stuff.
AP: Yeah, Coldplay's shows are full of beaming lights. Ruess: It's totally crazy and unique. And that's my favorite thing about success in general
-- you can play bigger venues and you get to have more production, and we got Coldplay's lighting director to do our light show. ... (Last year) was so booked solid that we didn't get a chance at all to like, we'd add stuff on to the tour, but we never got a chance to rehearse, or like get into a room, all of us together. We had to do everything on the fly. Now, we're getting to spend like four or five days getting it good. ___ Online:
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