'It really took us just sitting in front of our computers in our pajamas to write something that would go No. 1”
Growing up, Whitney Phillips wanted to be an architect. “I liked the creation of things from the ground up," she tellsBy the time she started high school, though, Phillips recalls becoming “pretty much obsessed with" -- and as a result, decided to trade in her architectural dreams to pursue music, too.
Phillips realized what she really loved about music was the creation process; turns out, songwriting wasn’t a big leap from architecture after all. “I’m big on concepts, probably leftover from my architect days," she says."That’s the foundation of your song, always. I like to know the why and the how of every song. I like to know what the roots are."
With that re-calibration, Phillips leaned into songwriting and soon enough, in 2012, wrote a piano ballad with Swedish producer Harry Sommerdahl. The following year, she was waiting tables in Malibu when she got the phone call telling her that “cut a 16 bar verse on [her] song,” she recalls. The Stafford Brothers had produced that ballad into an EDM track called"Hello" that the duo's label, Cash Money, then placed Wayne and Christina Milian on.
After that track released, Phillips landed a publishing deal with BMG and steadily racked up songwriting credits for superstars like
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