Now that The Chainsmokers are sitting at the top (a mile high, in fact, at the moment), it seems suddenly important to figure out who they really are.
As Taggart explains, “We’ve had people looking at us longer than we’ve known who we are.”
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Its reception was mixed but huge (accounting for a full third of their 1.5 billion YouTube plays), and it’s easy to chalk up any gawkiness to growing pains. The respect is a change for two dudes who broke through in 2013 with the wacky, satirical electro-house cut “#Selfie,” which Pall variously refers to as “our stupid novelty song,” “perfect for its time” and “an annoying-ass record,” and peaked at No. 16 on the Hot 100. It feels good when those people are like…” Taggart finishes the thought: “Thirsty.” If you own it, like, ‘I didn’t see the vision, but it’s clear now and it’s super sick,’ I get that. “I can’t blame somebody for saying no early on, but it depends on how you said no and how you came back to us. “They were like, ‘Yo! We should do a track together,’ and I’m like, ‘Oh, really?’ ” says Pall. “We plucked ourselves from obscurity and then started delivering smashes,” says Taggart (left), onstage with Pall in 2015 in Portland, Ore. Pall doesn’t mind sharing that Linkin Park unexpectedly called him while he was on the toilet Big Sean blew off his management to confirm a session (so did Dua Lipa) and Weezer circled back after refusing a cameo in The Chainsmokers’ 2016 Coachella set.
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Whatever it is, The Chainsmokers sold out Red Rocks four months ago, and the guys are suffering from an abundance of “good problems.” Chief among them is launching this show - the first in a roving series called Dreaming, in which they curate the lineup and play atop a new multitiered LED setup to rival the nearby natural monoliths - while also settling into two freshly bought Los Angeles homes (a move partly inspired by how much easier it is to fly back there after rocking Las Vegas). Broadly speaking, the group is a little like a sanitized Diplo and Skrillex. The songs are stylistically elastic although generally midtempo and vaguely sentimental, featuring autobiographical lyrics and non-household name female guest singers like Daya and Rozes. The pair isn’t linked to a trendy sound like trop-house. The New York native duo offers something simultaneously fresh and familiar to contemporary dance-pop -crossover. The Chainsmokers: Photos From The Billboard Cover Shoot “He wanted to finish the song, and I was like, ‘So why don’t you just sing it?’ Drew’s like, ‘No way, I’ve never sung.’ But we set up a mic in the bus, cut it, and that’s the vocal we used.” “Closer” co-writer Shaun Frank says that in November 2015, after Taggart made the beat in a 30-minute session with Freddy Kennett of Louis the Child, they did the rest on a tour bus in an hour, peppering in lines about Taggart’s experience hooking up with an ex, then “realizing he actually still hates her,” as Frank explains. “Closer” will be their third title to go double-platinum in 2016, following “Roses” and the euphoric trap-pop gem “Don’t Let Me Down.”Īnd with apparent ease.
For hugely impressive, far less icky stats than what’s on their website, take a look at “Closer” as it rounds its fourth week atop the Billboard Hot 100: five weeks leading the Digital Songs chart with a peak of 208,000 downloads (best for a group since One Direction in August 2015), according to Nielsen Music four weeks dominating Streaming Songs with a 40.5 million-click peak (only the fifth track to reach 40 million in a week) and No. These good-time bros, whose website bio includes the words “17.34 combined inches”(Pall clarifies: “Oh, that’s our penises combined… tip to tip”), are also astoundingly good at making hits.
“But you’ll never see us getting carried out of a club. “It’s always ‘work hard, play hard,’ ” says Pall after a pull of vodka. Sitting on the black leather couch next to Taggart: Alex Pall, a 31-year-old with bedhead and neck scruff, whose role is a permutation of DJ, A&R rep (he books the collaborations), art director and bon vivant. He’s sitting in a massage chair in the venue’s greenroom, sipping tequila from a red cup and chewing on beef jerky.
My mom’s going to hate reading that,” says Drew Taggart, 26, “but she already knows.” He’s the baby-faced half of the duo - the producer, songwriter and, increasingly, singer of The Chainsmokers.
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