Cash Cash on Their Hit "Take Me Home" & Remixing Katy Perry

Cash Cash on Their Hit "Take Me Home" & Remixing Katy Perry
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YH catches up with Alexander Makhlouf and Sam Frisch of Cash Cash at SXSW to find out all about how their hit single "Take Me Home" came about and how their philosophy on choosing songs to remix clashes with their band name! Plus, they tease a remix with a superstar singer and reveal their lightning-in-a-bottle moment!
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Lightning in a bottle. Have you had a lightning in a bottle moment in your lives?
Take me home felt like that. I feel like take me home was one of those things, yeah. It came together really quickly in the studio and everything just went like smoothly like in like two, three days we had the full final song.
broken to pieces, but I need this. Yeah, I need this. You performed it here or you're going to perform it?
Not yet tonight.
Okay, so I'll have to ask you tomorrow. Yes. Um but how has it been so far? I know you're just in Mexico.
Good. We've been here before too, so it's always been a good time.
Well, how was let's talk Mexico, cuz I feel like it was crazier than I expected. Rewind.
Yeah, Mexico was crazy. Yeah. A lot of boobies. Yeah, spring breakers going crazy. We're going crazy.
Oh, really? See how many Americans there? Oh, yeah. So not just the locals.
No, it was a little bit of both and they were just going crazy. Foreign boobies, American boobies. They were It was All kinds of boobies.
They're shy boys, Cash Cash.
We're dirty Jersey all the way. So won't you take me home? Won't you take me home?
Okay, so give us one good Mexico story or a good tour story from anywhere, something wild.
That we can actually use. Sometimes when I go up and stand on like you know the edge, if I like try to rile them up, I get grabbed in the guapo, like.
You do? Yeah. Um Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
No, that's what I don't want it to happen. It's like After after dark maybe, but. But I'm trying to rile up a crowd, I'm like, everybody get your Hey.
Oh my God. Tell me any Vibe Top 40 who you'd remix right now?
Oh, we're actually we're gonna remix the new Katy Perry single.
You are? Which which one?
I don't think we're legal to have to say what's her next single yet. So I I don't wanna get in trouble. Don't want to get in any trouble. It's on our album, so. Yeah, it's on our album.
Are you gonna give him that mic or are you just gonna like when he talks or you just gonna
He likes he likes to sing in this space. Yeah, that's right. We only remix stuff that we wanna remix. Like we get a lot of stuff sent to us from labels and they're like, remix this for like this amount of money and we're like, not worth it.
So you're not about the money.
Not worth it. No. It's gotta be something that we like.
Cash Cash is not about the cash.
Yeah, we are. Right in circles, here we go, with the highest tides and the lowest lows.
How does the collaborative process work between you two?
Well, there is a third, and he's over there. He's my brother. I know. I know. Well, they said there was only like one mic, they wanted to leave the mic, I don't know. But uh basically we're like the Oasis brothers. So we get and we're from Jersey.
And which one are you of the two?
Yeah, but I'm like I'm Liam.
Are you going to be the mediator between the two brothers here? Yeah. You're the mediator. You're the Dr. Phil.
We're Cash Cash and you're watching Young Hollywood.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Alexander Makhlouf
Member of Cash Cash, interviewed in the video
- Sam Frisch
Member of Cash Cash, interviewed in the video
- Katy Perry
Artist whose single Cash Cash is remixing
- Jean Paul Makhlouf
Brother and third member of Cash Cash
- Liam
Comparison made to Liam Gallagher of Oasis
- Dr. Phil
Comparison made to a mediator
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