Mike Posner on Making Music & Why It ‘Feels Good’ to Cry

Mike Posner doesn’t want to get too deep into the inspiration behind his latest single “Song About You”, a track that “revealed itself after a really beautiful relationship had ended”, but he did tell Billboard’s Pop Shop Podcast that he isn’t surprised that the song is being played across rock radio and pop radio alike.
Something that did surprise Posner, however, was how easily his latest song came to him after a long day in the studio with Dan Wilson and Ricky Reed. An impromptu guitar riff from Wilson — who has worked with Adele and Taylor Swift and was the frontman of Semisonic,  ended up becoming the opening of “Song About You”.
“I sing these songs pretty much every day because I practice them,” Posner says. “Sometimes I’ll start crying when I play; that’s probably like 5 percent of the time I’m practicing. It just hits you. I don’t think it’s a bad thing. It just means you connect with the song, connects you with something, you feel something. … I don’t think it would be a bad thing if I cried onstage. I think, honestly, the way I look at it, it would be a good thing. It would be real. Not in a sort of showing-off sort of way. It feels good to me to cry sometimes. Sometimes I wish I could cry more.”

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