Put up Malone is opening up about his working relationships with Taylor Swift and Beyoncé.
In his The New York Occasions profile revealed on Thursday, Aug. 8, the musician, 29, briefly mirrored on the expertise of working with Swift and Beyoncé for his or her respective 2024 albums — The Tortured Poets Division and Cowboy Carter — after witnessing the cautious safety measures taken to deal with the 2 superstars’ huge ranges of fame.
In accordance with Malone, whereas filming the music video for his or her chart-topping single “Fortnight,” Swift wanted to cover below “an umbrella and drapes” over a golf cart that she rode on set “so drones and a helicopter couldn’t get footage” of her.
Beyoncé, in the meantime, apparently went to even larger lengths to maintain her collab with Malone below wraps earlier than her nation album was introduced in February. He recalled getting despatched their “LEVII’S JEANS” monitor by way of certainly one of her representatives to his private compound in Utah to make sure there have been no leaks.
“I can’t even think about being at their degree — it should suck,” Malone informed The New York Occasions. “That’s a lot strain.”
Regardless of the acute measures, Malone mentioned he is “simply honored to be in these individuals’s neighborhood,” regardless of how top-secret their work is. For his Beyoncé collaboration, the pair did not hit the studio collectively, they usually nonetheless have not met. However the “Circles” singer revealed they primarily corresponded by way of textual content to maintain their track a secret. “It was terrifying,” he shared.
Malone has spoken extremely of each Swift and Beyoncé since their collaborations launched earlier this 12 months. After the latter’s album dropped on March 29, the 10-time Grammy nominee took to his Instagram Story to precise his gratitude towards her, writing, “thanks [Beyoncé]. congrats this album is gorgeous.”
When Swift dropped TTPD the next month, Malone shared his thanks on Instagram once more with a Polaroid picture of the 2 captioned, “It’s as soon as in a lifetime that somebody like @taylorswift comes into this world. I’m floored by your coronary heart and your thoughts, and I’m past honored to have been requested that can assist you along with your journey 🥹 I really like you a lot. Thanks Tay 💕.”
Elsewhere in his dialog with The New York Occasions, Malone mirrored on how a lot his personal star has risen since his 2015 debut and the genre-bending path that is led to his soon-to-be-released nation music album, F-1 Trillion.
After years of teasing his newest style pivot, the singer’s new LP — which options duets with Dolly Parton, Chris Stapleton, Lainey Wilson, Jelly Roll and extra — arrives on Friday, Aug. 16.
Malone’s guitarist, Derek Wells, spoke to the publication and affirmed that the musician’s nation music foray is, certainly, real: “He’s not enjoying dress-up right here.”
“On this second that the style is having, numerous us are used to so-and-so is making a rustic venture proper now, and we’ve seen the nice, the dangerous and the ugly with regards to these,” Wells added. “I’ve watched [Malone] very a lot ask permission to be on this style. He’s doing every part proper.”
