Kevin Kadish
... is the 3x Grammy nominated songwriter/producer/engineer responsible for co-writing, recording, producing, and mixing Meghan Trainor’s 2014 debut album ‘Title’, including the hits, All About That Bass, Lips Are Movin’, and Dear Future Husband.
More recently, he co-penned (with Ben Burgess) country radio’s most played song of 2019, Morgan Wallen’s Whiskey Glasses, which reached #1 in the country genre for 3 weeks and has sold 4 million copies. Kadish has also contributed to a number of popular recordings by artists such as Jason Mraz, Miley Cyrus, 5th Harmony, Stacie Orrico, Willie Nelson, Garth Brooks, and more...
As an artist, Kadish toured extensively, opening for the likes of Hall & Oates, Vertical Horizon, Dave Mathews Band, Jeff Beck, SR-71, and others... eventually signing as a solo artist to Republic Records ... no music was ever released.
Deserve was written and recorded with longtime friend and collaborator, David Baron, and it marks the first time that a song has ever been release with Kadish on lead vocals, in his career. Deserve and follow up releases Let Me Go and Weakness promoted and released by UK label Here & Now Recordings.
Ben Burgess
...the Texas Trubadour hails from East Dallas and was born on a cold November night. His pops put a guitar in his hands and his mama kept The Beatles on the record player as soon as they got him home. He was born for this yall, songrwriting and singin is in his blood and he bleeds on his records. He sang his waydown Six Street in Austin, up Sunset BLVD in them Hollywood Hills and thru Nashville TNs Music Row.
It aint been an easy road this country cruuners been down, and you can hear it in his voice. Penning songs for Morgan Wallen , Lil Wayne , Martin Garrix, Troye Sivan and Jake Owen has proven Burgess as a multi-genre voice of this generation. The future is bright for this young legend and the sky is the limit ...look its a bird its a plane no ...its Ben Burgess
She don't wanna be lonely
"The true story of an ex-girlfriend who, when drunk, would hook-up with her ex-boyfriend.", so die Bedeutung des Tracks, quasi "the meaning of the song". Yes, das macht dann natürlich Sinn und kommt dann eventuell auch öfters vor als man denkt würd ich mal salopp behaupten bzw. schreiben.
Das hin- und hergerissen sein, will man noch oder auch doch nicht oder nur heute ... ? "Friends with bonus" oder war doch nur der Alkohol schuld. Tja, viele Möglichkeiten und Umstände stehen da parat.
Geschrieben wurde der Song von Kadish, Burgess and Mitch Allan. Drei Namen, drei Größen der Musik haben sich hier vereint um an einem Stück zu schreiben und es zu inszenieren, zu produzieren. Der Einstieg, der Beginn erinnert mich vom Sound fast an "In the Air tonight", was sich aber mit dem Einsatz der Vocals drastisch ändert, energiegeladen und powerful kommen diese daher, erzählen die Geschichte fast schon dramatisch, die Dramaturgie wird vom musikalischen Arrangement natürlich gefordert bzw. unterstützt. "She don't wanna be lonely" das ist fast schon Kino, ein Film, ein eventuell bevorstehendes Drama mit drei Protagonisten die allesamt zu glänzen vermögen.
"She don't wanna be lonely" by KEVIN KADISH FEATURING BEN BURGESS put the "playing with the fire" theme in a musically 3.20min drama to sound dramatically hot as hell.
Q&A
Who inspired you to make music in general ...and especially to the song "She don't wanna be lonely"?
I can’t say that there’s one person, in general, that inspired me to make music. I can say that I write from experiences in my life and at some point I’m sure we’ve all made bad decisions about dating someone that we know we shouldn’t. That’s where Ben, Mitch, and I drew inspiration from for “she don’t want to be lonely “.
Do you remember your first ever self written song?
The first song I remember writing by myself was a song called “Mr. Dougherty”. I think I was watching a talk show and there was a girl with Tourette’s syndrome. In the middle of a conversation she just screamed “hey Mr. Dougherty”. I don’t know why that stuck with me but I ended up writing a song about someone I had never met named Mr. Dougherty. At the end of the day, the song end it became autobiographical and I was actually Mr. Dougherty.
What was the first ever Pop song you listened to?
That’s very hard to say. My parents used to play me there 45s, so I grew up on Elvis, The Champs, The Chordettes, and other 50s acts.
What is your creative process like?
I really want the listener to not have to work hard to get invested in the story, so, I try to write songs that I’ve “lived”, because if I’ve lived them I’m pretty sure someone else has been in the same situation. Musically, there are so many ways that I create songs, I can’t say that there’s a specific process. The key for me is to catch a vibe either musically lyrically or melodically that’s the foundation for a song, to me.
What do you prefer, a live gig or a studio session?
I love both for very different reasons. I was performing long before I ever recorded in the studio, but, recording in the studio can be much more creative. Performing is all about connecting with the audience. You can feel what is working and what is not… you can feel if you’re losing them or not. Recording the studio is a bit more self-indulgent and there’s a bit more guesswork to what people will like, but, it’s very free and creative in spirit.
If you could create an "All Star Band" who would be the members?
I would have my friends in the band. To me there’s nothing better than playing music with your best friends. So… David Baron on Keys, Mitch Allan on bass, Nathan Chapman on Acoustic guitar, Evan Taubenfeld on electric guitar, and Ben Burgess on vocals and drums.
You wrote and produced a lot of songs, which one do you mean stands out from the crowd? (or is the latest always the best one?)
I would say that Meghan Trainor “all about that bass“ stands out in the crowd, just because of how unavoidable it was when it had it’s moment. As creators I think above all our hope is that our creations eventually get consumed by the public. I don’t have a song or production that stood out more than that.
When do you decide that a song is ready for a release?
And I suppose when you feel comfortable listening to it in front of your peers.
What is the most useful talent you have?
I feel like that’s a tough question and it would be a better question for my co-writers or the artists that I work with. If i had to answer I will probably say my ability to know when a song is “right“ or not regardless if it’s mine or someone else’s
How do you feel the Internet (especially Social Media platforms) has impacted the music business?
That’s a great question but also a very very long and complicated potential answer. I’ll condense it by saying I think that the Internet and social media has been incredible for allowing musicians to connect with their Fanbase without a record label. In the past if you wanted your music heard you had to have an infrastructure behind you to really make a living as a recording artist. Now you can release your own music and become successful without a record label. On the other side of the coin, it can make the artist feel like a needle in a haystack . It’s hard to get your music noticed when there’s so much product out there to compete with.
What’s next for you?
Hopefully I get to continue writing recording and releasing music. I feel very blessed to be able to call this my job.
