Poo Bear on Working With Justin Bieber & His Second Studio Album

Happy Birthday. My name is pooh bear and I'm on Young Hollywood right now and we're discussing the book and the Bill, the new single that's out of the album's title favorite here in the video was everywhere, Check it out, Take it hope it resonates Happy Birthday. There aren't any features on this album. Unlike my last two represents birthday music. It was all my friends and you know, kel abs this album. Um, it's just me singing and I just really wanted to, I didn't really want to do any features on this project. I really just wanted to make records that I loved and I don't feel like I need to add anybody to enhance anything. Just let it stand on this, on to on this on two ft.

I love the record tomorrow a lot. Just because it's um, the poem that it came from, it was definitely directed to my Bill's daughter. And for me when I'm turning it into a song and having a hook to it, I definitely started to look at it like, wow, this represents how I feel about my daughter as well. And it's just, it's just a cool songs because everybody makes, you know, love records and so many different cliche concepts. So to actually make a record that's about our daughter, you know, and the way it's put, you know, where, you know, somebody could be, you know, singing this to their niece to their female, you know, their female cat or their female pet, you know, my Little Princess.

So it's just one of those records that, you know, the double entendres are great and the meaning behind it is super. You know, it's it's got a lot of depth and the melodies and the song is really infectious. I would say tomorrow is my favorite record off of the book and The Bill. Um One major um major tool that I use for the book and the Bill that you know, I definitely wouldn't have, did it have done anything without this tool is a specific specific microphone. S. M. Seven um microphone, very inexpensive mike. You know, 300 bucks. A lot of people like to record on, you know mike's that are like $10,000.

But for me um those might pick up your blood going through your vein and pick up your, you know, if you're hungry, they pick up your stomach growling and I'd like to record in the booth. I like to record in the studio like in the main room. So in order for me to actually do that without the microphone picking up anything, I use the SM seven. And that way it might only picks up like what's directly coming in front of it. That way I can sit in the room, the control room with the energy and And give my best and not have to go into a recording booth and start over where I'm alone. I see people, I don't know if they're talking about me or laughing at me.

So the SM seven was a major tool for me on this project because it's the only like that I like to record on and it allows me to stay in the main control room while I'm recording without have to worry about anything, any other bullets just being picked up or any other stuff being picked up on the mic. So that's the seventh. Oh man, So um and in creating, what do you mean it was done in about, went in the studio record plant and it started listening to different chords and listen to different music. And I had a concept on my phone, it was like when you nod your head yes, but you want to say no.

And it was just that literally I literally just had those words and then I remember going to the studio and I had already written 105 songs for Justin and then, you know, it was more so this feeling of can you do another record? You know, I was kind of frustrated so what do you mean? Kind of came out of a place in frustration because I'm like We have 105 songs so I have to really do another record. And I did it because I know I'm not going the way studio time, I don't like that, but during that record, I think I'm knocked out verse, pre chorus a hook, They got knocked out the whole song probably like 35 40 minutes, About 40 minutes I took, you know and so it wasn't a day to day process.

I sent it to Justin. Justin was actually in Australia when I see him the first draft of it and he loved it and added his his piece to it and send it back and then I remember scooter saying you know that record that was the main record that's gonna be Justin's first single and I'm like no way, we have 100 and five other songs, what are you talking about? He's like no man, I got the feeling in my stomach that what do you mean? It's like the first single and you know thank god you know scooter heard it and he made it the first single and it was Justin's first hot 100 number one. Yeah We went on to sell about 50 million singles on that song worldwide so ended up turning out really well.

It was not a multiple day process, it was you know, 45 45 minutes tops to write that record, Senator to Australia. Justin loved it, Added his piece to it and this pre turned around pretty fast and then that remember that song came out August 28 I think like 2015. Yeah but it was like one of the one of the quickest turnaround where I went in the studio created adjusting the attitude and then it was out like literally like 25 days later it was one of the fastest turnarounds ever. and in my music career, as far as creating a record and it coming out to radio. So it was really cool man. What do you mean? Big, big record? I didn't really hear it at first, didn't know how big it was gonna be.

Um so I just gotta always just stick to my formula and do what I know best because sometimes I might not feel like it's a hit, but as long as it has my formula and it has, you know, those elements in it, that it could possibly be a hit record if I was to listen to music, um it's an artist named Bride Be out of ST louis, that's really, really amazing. Um what I like to listen for an artist um is originality is just, you know, seeing something that's new that hasn't been done before because everything, there's nothing new under the sun.

So there's a rapper, he's a bright, he's a rapper slash singer, but you know, he's coming up with new flows and cadences and styles that I've never heard before, suicide. It's almost like a new product. It's like you want to put a new product in the marketplace, don't let it be the same. Heinz ketchup that's already out, you know, do something unique with the ketchup will do something special.

So brad be very special artists are saying, well it was a new up and coming um definitely have to say, Justin Bieber, just give us great, amazing, you know, we worked a lot and a lot of times, you know, we would work in our setting records, then he would go through him and cut him with josh Goodwin and then there'll be some times when I would actually come in and get, you know, get the chance to produce Justin um and it's always amazing, he works really, really hard in his boots himself.

Um the third artist I would have to say is usher, um actually just hands down is like one of the greatest vocalist about about time and you know, he has a lot of responsibility and I just went to his, you know, his concert in Vegas and it's over the top, there's never been a show like his show in Vegas before, really, really great and I just love his work, I love the fact that, you know, we could be an approved, excuse me, he being in the main room singing and you know hell I might think it's right, and then he will do it like eight more times just because he's a perfection, I thought I was a perfectionist, he is so much of a perfectionist, he just wants to have a great, the greatest and the best performance ever.

And so I would say that was definitely my third time favorite artist to work with, I prefer both, I like both, I like, you know, I think everything in life has to have a cool balance, nice, cool equilibrium. So I do appreciate being behind the scenes, I appreciate going places and meeting people and I appreciate people treating me, you know, normal as opposed to finding out what I've done or what I'm responsible for what I have and then being nice to me because of that.

So I would just say that for me, it's it's amazing just to have some real authentic, you know, fans um and learn who learn who really loves prove their music, you know, really, really um figure out who really loves music and get the data and to see, and I love that too. I love being able to put out songs and raise the bar. Um as much as I love being behind the scenes, I do love to put out new music so that other musicians and writers and producers can hear and they can maybe take from it and apply it in music because we have to grow, we have to, we can't keep putting out the same music every year, you know, so I just like being able, I love being able to be behind the scenes.

I love the fact that some people that, you know, I like being a star to the stars, but then I also love putting on music to people who love aren't real if I had to choose between writing songs for the rest of my life for singing for the rest of my life, I would say writing songs for the rest of my life just because you know, I don't have to be in the forefront. You know, I can write songs for other artists.

I could be tired as an artist and be like, yeah, I still got these great songs and still place them on major artists for new artists and they have a chance to make it, You know, I suppose the song just going into the music business um as far as me singing those, I don't mind singing, I'm not the guy that just walks around and I'm not the guy that just takes a shower, I'm not just singing in the shower. Um I'm not just walking around the house singing. So I would have to say songwriting if I had to choose one just because of the freedom that's involved with somebody. You know, just being able to still live a normal life somewhere.

Um so some advice I would give to a inspiring singers and songwriters is take whatever negative criticism that you get and turn it, use it as fuel, use it as gas, use it as you know, as oxygen on fire and because that nobody can tell you what you're gonna do, nobody knows what's written for you.

So if you have a dream and it's put inside of you know, the best thing to do is just to work hard at it and take that criticism as fuel and at the end of the day use your power of manifestation visualize where you want to be sonically hear the music that you want to create and put the work in you know but you gotta visualize exactly what you want to like what type of artist you want to be, what you what your style is. You have to be very specific in your manifestation, you can't be there, you can't say I just want a new house, you have to go and find the actual house that you want. And and actually that's when the manifestation starts.

The process of from you know the spirit realm into the physical realm. So using your using any criticism as fuel and practicing manifestation and being brutally honest I think is the most number one. It's like that's my number one um suggestion brutal honesty allows for true growth. If you have people lying to you telling you that you're amazing or if you feel like everything you do is amazing you're gonna stay where you are, you're never gonna grow.

So in order to grow you have to be brutally honest, even if it hurts even if somebody's telling you like yeah that sucks at least you know, so you can work on it and then that for you allows you growth and most people just celebrate way too fast and they start feeling themselves way too soon and it's all about growing. Like I never want to feel like I'm not growing and I've been doing this for 27 years. So that's the number one.

The number one part of it is when you're listening, when you're recording, when you're listening to doing your music, be brutally honest with yourself about it just because you're doing it and it already sounds like the last hit on the radio doesn't mean that it's a hit doesn't mean it is great, but you got to be brutally honest with yourself so that you're gonna say, hey, I'm going to get better. That sucks, let me do something different. Let me try to make this better. So that's it. Those, those are pretty things.