John K — Exclusive Pics
“I couldn’t think of a better song to lead with,” said John K when chatting EXCLUSIVELY with HollywoodLife. The main in front of the eponymous John K project stopped by the HollywoodLife studios to chat about his new collaboration with Kelsea Ballerini, a remix of his hit song, “If We Never Met.” First breaking out in 2017 — when his song “OT” was featured by legendary DJ Elvis Duran — John K found himself back in the spotlight with his new track. Within the span of a year, he signed with Epic Records, released a new EP, and had a hit song. Yet, he remained utterly humble about his rising success.
“This is the focus track because as a new artist, this is a message I could see myself completely getting behind being,” he said. “When I signed, I rolled into the label with like eight people. I was like, this is who I am. My team makes me real.” John K kept it real while talking with HollywoodLife about his collaboration, why he loves pop music, and what’s next for this superstar-in-the-making.
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“The John K project started in 2015. We really started to gain our identity, our minds around it in ’16. And then we released Runnin‘ in 2016, right?” he tells HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY. “So, I think we were like, you know what? This music is good. It’s better than okay. It’s better than most things that we hear. Let’s just start putting stuff out.”
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“We literally built this thing from the ground up and just started releasing music independently,” John K tells HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY, “and every now and then we’d meet somebody that we really vibed with energy-wise, personality-wise. We invited them into the team and we grew it brick by brick, step-by-step.”
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We continued to push and I mean that’s the ‘If We Never Met story, really,” John K tells HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY. “It’s just the pieces all coming together. The songs getting better, the song writing getting better.”
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“There’s heavy attention to lyrics in this project,” John K tells HollywoodLife. “There is a special focus and attention on melody and lyrics really working together. Just making it feel good and really connect. And it’s hard. I mean it takes another level of attention to detail.
