Leland Quotes

United States, Singer
1991

Brett Leland McLaughlin, known professionally as Leland, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and lecturer. Based in Los Angeles, California, he has worked closely with a range of popular artists, including Selena Gomez, Troye Sivan, Daya, Andy Grammer, Kelsea Ballerini and Allie X. In December 2017, McLaughlin signed with Vertigo Berlin/Universal Music Germany for his artist project Leland and is currently published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing.

Also known as Songwriter, Record Producer, Vocal Producer

The story in the show is he puts out this song that he does in his bedroom and then songwriters swoop in and take control, and the label comes in and takes control. It is a funny element of the background people trying to capitalize, so when it comes to references so we wanted to go to extremes.

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I’ve experienced this as a songwriter working with, and helping develop, new artists. This is truly a page out of a new artist book that has a song that blows up and then is just trying to play catch-up. That really is the story of Chase in this first season. He’s not even thinking about who he is as an artist, he’s being told and given these songs.

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In songwriting a term that we use a lot is, ‘Does this sing well?’ So for me, my job as a curator and composer was to come in and be like, ‘Ok, this sings fine, this sits well on the ear, but it could sing better if we make a few changes.'

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