Speaker 1: So we're.
Speaker 2: Okay. It's Choice of N on the Mattie Roe OZ.
Speaker 1: Music Show, and he is co hosting the show with
Speaker 1: me tonight. I'm trying to stay cool come collected tonight,
Speaker 1: but you know what, I'm freaking out a bit. I've
Speaker 1: been a massive fan of Choice of Arms for honestly
Speaker 1: over a decade now. I used to watch all of
Speaker 1: his YouTube videos. So then the very first album, Blue
Speaker 1: Neighborhood in twenty fifteen, I was obsessed with this. It
Speaker 1: went top forty on the Billboard Charts, to then album
Speaker 1: number two Blue which gave us this banger. And just
Speaker 1: when you thought Choice of Arn can't possibly get any better,
Speaker 1: he puts out album number.
Speaker 2: Three, Pop Perfection.
Speaker 3: It's so good.
Speaker 1: It's so good in his own words, Something to give
Speaker 1: each Other is the new album from Choy Savon, which
Speaker 1: is out now and joining me next choice of Arn
Speaker 1: to take over the OZ Music Show. We'll get on
Speaker 1: all of his favorite songs from the album. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about Melbourne life where he's living now and the very
Speaker 1: first song from the album, track number one, is a hot,
Speaker 1: sweaty club anthem Rush with Choice of var next on Nova.
Speaker 1: We have waited five years in between albums from Troy Savonn,
Speaker 1: but he is back with a brand new one and
Speaker 1: he takes over the show tonight.
Speaker 2: Hey, it's choice on the Maddie ro Oz Music Show.
Speaker 1: Something to give each other is the brand new album.
Speaker 1: It's out now. Congrats on it all and thanks for
Speaker 1: jumping on tonight.
Speaker 2: Thank you for having me. It is so good to
Speaker 2: have you. I'm so good.
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 2: How's live?
Speaker 1: How's Melbourne life?
Speaker 2: I should ask?
Speaker 1: I missed that place. I grew up there and you've
Speaker 1: made that your hometown. Now what's it like down there
Speaker 1: at the moment?
Speaker 2: I mean, did you leave? I love Melbourne.
Speaker 3: I feel definitely the most like myself when I'm there.
Speaker 3: All my friends are there, my family's there.
Speaker 2: I ride my bike.
Speaker 3: I don't have a car there, so I'm just like
Speaker 3: on my bike walking around and it's yeah, it's like heaven.
Speaker 1: Does that mean you stay in the Carlton bubble? Because
Speaker 1: I know your three story houses in Carlton? So do
Speaker 1: you stick to the locals know you there?
Speaker 2: Oh? For sure?
Speaker 1: They see Troy on his little bike.
Speaker 2: Yep, laughing at me on my bike.
Speaker 1: Do you have the basket at the front?
Speaker 3: No, I had a basket on the back and then
Speaker 3: it was like embarrassing, so I took it off. Now
Speaker 3: I just carry a bag and I just like put
Speaker 3: as much stuff as I can in the bag.
Speaker 1: I can tell from listening back to all of these
Speaker 1: album tracks, Troy, that you are really in your clubbing
Speaker 1: party era. Where's choice of IM like to go out?
Speaker 3: To be honest, I actually haven't been. I haven't been
Speaker 3: like clubbing in a while. I really like a wine bar.
Speaker 3: I love a wine bar, and if I am.
Speaker 2: Going to go like out out, it's probably out on
Speaker 2: Smith Street. Yeah it yeah, of course.
Speaker 1: And you know what, if you walked in in the
Speaker 1: last couple of months, you probably would have heard Rush playing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I haven't heard it like because I haven't been
Speaker 3: since the song came out. I haven't heard it in
Speaker 3: Australia in a club setting yet.
Speaker 2: So that's definitely something that I want to do before
Speaker 2: I leave.
Speaker 1: Oh, of course you have to now that the album
Speaker 1: is out, Troy, I'm sure you've lived with these songs
Speaker 1: for so long now listening back, what's your favorite song
Speaker 1: from the album.
Speaker 3: My favorite song of the album is one of your girls.
Speaker 3: It's called I'm just really proud of it. It's like
Speaker 3: it was kind of this big conversation that I was
Speaker 3: having with myself basically, you know, it was just like
Speaker 3: it was a complicated situation that I didn't really know
Speaker 3: how to talk about, and to try and kind of
Speaker 3: get all of those layers of a story into a
Speaker 3: three minute pop song is difficult, and so when we
Speaker 3: did it was I was just really really happy and
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Listening to these lyrics, I can tell it's about crushing
Speaker 1: on a straight boy. And you know what, I really
Speaker 1: love that Max Martin producing Legend, has added a synth
Speaker 1: Lie to this chorus. Didn't even ask for a credit either,
Speaker 1: What a legend. It must have been really cool to
Speaker 1: work with Charlie. She's written some amazing songs for other artists.
Speaker 1: Have there ever been songs pitched to you, Troy that
Speaker 1: you have said no to but have ended up being
Speaker 1: like massive hits.
Speaker 3: I've definitely had songs pitched to me and then later
Speaker 3: heard them by the final artists. I'm trying to think
Speaker 3: of an example. I also don't want to put anyone
Speaker 3: on blast because sometimes people lie and say that they
Speaker 3: wrote the song. And so now if I say that
Speaker 3: it was a pitch song, then they're going to get
Speaker 3: in trouble.
Speaker 1: So or sometimes artists jump on and like tweak lyrics
Speaker 1: and tweak melodies to suit themselves.
Speaker 3: So but sometimes I've heard the demo and the demo
Speaker 3: is exactly the same as the final version.
Speaker 2: So you can tell me.
Speaker 1: I won't tell anyone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, off air, I'll let you know. But no, I mean,
Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong with that though.
Speaker 3: That's the thing, like I think, you know, I love songwriting,
Speaker 3: and I think it's probably my biggest passion of everything.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, there are some artists who
Speaker 3: don't write, and their artistry is their voice and the
Speaker 3: mormans that like they're the only person in the world
Speaker 3: who could deliver that song in that way.
Speaker 1: Rihanna is one of them, Beyonce is another. I mean,
Speaker 1: they do they do right, but they also take on
Speaker 1: songs and they deliver it so perfectly right.
Speaker 3: I've one hundred percent taken pitch songs. Angel Baby, my
Speaker 3: song was a pitch song, and then I rewrote.
Speaker 2: The verses and the pre chorus.
Speaker 3: Or maybe the yeah, the verses and the bridge or
Speaker 3: something like that. But yeah, you know, I've definitely I've
Speaker 3: definitely done it, so there's not you know.
Speaker 2: I have no qualms with that at all. I actually
Speaker 2: think it's kind of cool sometimes.
Speaker 1: Obviously this is an Australian music show. I want to
Speaker 1: know which Australian artist choice of Aarne wants to collab with.
Speaker 3: I am a big fan of this artist called Nick
Speaker 3: Ward Sick.
Speaker 1: Yes, love Nick.
Speaker 3: I love Nick so much and he is actually on
Speaker 3: the album as a writer.
Speaker 2: On my album as a writer.
Speaker 3: We went to Sweden together and we wrote on a
Speaker 3: song called Can't Go Back Baby, and yeah, I just
Speaker 3: love him.
Speaker 2: I'm like a really big fan, so I would love.
Speaker 1: That and I love that. The album is filled with
Speaker 1: heaps of big dance bangers, but this is one of
Speaker 1: the more heartfelt songs on the album. Troy Sevon Can't
Speaker 1: Go Back Baby from Something to Give each Other. The
Speaker 1: new album is out now and he's on the show
Speaker 1: tonight co hosting film.
Speaker 2: Hey It's Choice on the Maddie Roe Oz Music Show.
Speaker 1: This album is truly pop perfection for me. We've heard
Speaker 1: some incredible songs from the album already. My favorite has
Speaker 1: to be got Me started.
Speaker 2: Oh nice, okay good?
Speaker 1: How did you work that bag? Raters sample in Did
Speaker 1: you come in with the do in your head or
Speaker 1: did it kind of like happen organically or what was
Speaker 1: the goal with that?
Speaker 3: We wrote the chorus first and like the verses and
Speaker 3: everything basically except for the sample, and then there was
Speaker 3: just this sort of blank space in the song and
Speaker 3: we were talking about what to do with it, and
Speaker 3: I started to sing the sample into just like the room,
Speaker 3: kind of as a joke because I was like, there's
Speaker 3: no way that they're ever going to let us have this,
Speaker 3: and they're legends and they're Australian.
Speaker 1: And exactly I love that they.
Speaker 2: Let me have it.
Speaker 3: So I think Got Me Started is kind of surprising. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think it's it's just sort of like a new
Speaker 3: kind of feeling for me. I wanted to make like
Speaker 3: dance music, you know, and Russia's obviously like full blown dance,
Speaker 3: and then Got Me Started as just like really UK
Speaker 3: feel that I really like that I haven't done before.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's definitely the song on the album
Speaker 1: that I cannot stop smashing the repeat button before you go,
Speaker 1: we're both nineteen ninety five babies. I'm twenty eight, you're
Speaker 1: twenty eight. I feel like I'm taking my career really
Speaker 1: seriously this year, but I'm also having fun while I'm
Speaker 1: doing it.
Speaker 2: Do you feel me on that I'm in the same boat.
Speaker 3: I feel like my party euro started at twenty six
Speaker 3: twenty seven, like I didn't really party that much before
Speaker 3: and now, to be honest, twenty seven was an awkward age.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you felt, but for me, yes,
Speaker 2: I felt like that was a random one.
Speaker 1: Like I did just quite a lot. Twenty seven I
Speaker 1: was like, what is going on? What am I doing
Speaker 1: with my life? Do I even want to do this anymore? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Exactly twenty five twenty seven, All of a sudden, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean.
Speaker 2: We've skipedches.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we're kind of making up for it.
Speaker 2: Twenty eight. I feel really good about I really like
Speaker 2: twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, it's been the biggest year of your life, right.
Speaker 1: New albums Something to Give each Other is out now.
Speaker 1: Thanks for jumping on, can't wait to have you back,
Speaker 1: and congrats and good luck with everything.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me. What it is
Speaker 2: is the Manny Roe OZ Music Show.