Justin Tranter

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I am pop songwriter Justin Tranter.

I have been lucky enough to co-write songs like Chappell Roan's Good Luck, Babe!, Justin Bieber's Sorry, Imagine Dragons' Believer, Cake by the Ocean, and the day I decided to collaborate, my entire life changed.

So me and my friend Morgan decided to collaborate and start a podcast about the art of collaboration.

And I, and I grew up in Miami, and I didn't even know what the word gay meant, and then all of a sudden I'm in, I'm in, at Berklee, and I see this little butterfly flying around.

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Justin Tranter.

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Distributing galleys used to be the exclusive domain of the publisher's PR department, but here the author herself is reduced to doing, like, grassroots influencer outreach.

She actually shares a specific story about Justin Tranter, the incredibly famous pop songwriter.

Oh yeah, the DM story.

Yes.

I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it.

Hello, I am pop songwriter Justin Tranter.

I have been lucky enough to co-write songs like Chapel Roan's Good Luck Babe, Justin Bieber's Sorry, Cake by the Ocean, Imagine Dragons Believer, and I am obsessed with the art of collaboration.

When I started collaborating and co-writing and opening my mind to the fact that I might not be a singular genius and I might need help, my entire life changed.

He's trying.

A little bit like, you remind me a little bit of Justin Tranter, who they did the pod.

And they seem to have been doing sort of a switch away from, Justin is like a prolific songwriter.

Everything

I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it.

Hello, I am Justin Tranter, pop songwriter.

I have been lucky enough to co-write songs like Chapel Rowan's Good Luck Babe, Justin Bieber's Sorry, Imagine Dragons' Believer, Cake by the Ocean, Halsey, Bad at Love, and I'll shut the fuck up.

I am obsessed with the art of collaboration.

Oh,

okay.

And this song is a great example of like, People are like, how did you, Justin Tranter, end up with a song with Juice WRLD?

I get asked that a lot.

I am

Justin Tranter,

pop

songwriter.

Again and again and again and again I am still searching.

I am Justin Tranter.

Woo!

Pop songwriter.

I asked her why she was sad, and she was going through a really rough time, and she had just broken up with her boyfriend.

I said, "Let, you know, let's write, let's write a song." We go in, we write a song with Justin Tranter and Stargate, and it just falls out of her.

It's magic, okay? It falls out of her.

Issues happens so quickly.

Like, like now we have two things we need to get cleared.

And actually my co-writer, Justin Tranter, um, knows.

Friend of the pod.

Love Justin.