Interview with Hedley About Songwriting

The guys from Hedley tell us about their songwriting process, how they stay a cohesive unit and how they've improved as a group since starting out.

Interview with Hedley about song writing Rebecca Brayton: Their diverse pop-punk style is punctuated by clever lyrics. Hi I'm Rebecca Brayton and welcome to watchmojo.com. And today we’re speaking with Hedley. Jacob Hoggard: I don’t think there is any accurate portrayal of any specific influences of ours. It’s important for us to not setup too many borders and boundaries when we’re writing and that’s what this record is it’s a really cool picture of all the different things that we like to come up with. Dave Rosin: We recorded this record in like four different parts, we used a couple of different procedures a couple of friends at home. And then we did part of it in Jersey and part of it down in LA. So I think that really lent us getting to experiment with each of these songs as individual songs. The song remains the same but it’s just about how you kind of color in between the lines. Rebecca Brayton: You touched on this a bit about the new album why don’t you tell us what you were going for. Chris Crippin: We took shape as we were going. There wasn’t any goal. Nobody knew what it was going to look like or sound like at the outside of the writing process. Dave Rosin: That’s really the thing when you're creating a body work like that and also just writing to get stuff out try to find the best songs and also find the cohesions in your topics kind of come together after a while. So I think we’re all excited for the song called “Sweater Song” on the record. It was actually the only song on the record we've ever performed live and it was the way it actually took shape was very much based on how people reacted to it live. Rebecca Brayton: The Sweater Song is that an Weezer song at all? Jacob Hoggard: It’s a true story. I won’t let anybody copyright a word for song titles. Rebecca Brayton: How do you think you guys have grown individually and as a band over the years? Dave Rosin: The music is improved in every way. The sounds of the recording have improved. The writing has improved. The content of the songs has improved and as people we’ve improved how we treat one another, how we perform together. Just more cohesive just any relationship you have that’s important to you that you nurture for 4, 5 or 10 years. Hopefully it get it gets better and so far it’s just a steady incline of getting better. Jacob Hoggard: It takes work to co-exist. And I think the four of us have a down to a science of it. We all understand each other fairly well and we know that if we’re going to be doing something as lucky as this we should be having fun doing it and that’s a priority really because there’s no point on wasting in experience like this arguing or complaining.