Maren Morris and Zedd share secrets of making “The Middle” and talk about reuniting for their new collab “Make You Say.”
As seamless and instantaneous as its success was, “The Middle” had a particularly stressful, drawn-out backstory. It came to life as a track written by the production team Monsters & Strangerz and Australian singer-songwriter Sarah Aarons; Zedd eventually came aboard as producer and co-writer, along with Grey . As many as a dozen singers, including Demi Lovato, Charli XCX and Camila Cabello, cut vocals for the track; for various reasons, none of those versions was released.
Zedd heard what he’d been looking for and he and Morris assembled in Nashville to record her final vocal in late 2017. Morris was fighting a cold that day, and she thinks what she calls her “balls-out rasp” added to its appeal. By comparison, the making of “Make You Say” was a relatively seamless process, even though it took nearly as long as “The Middle.” The track, originally an instrumental, started coming together in 2018, when Zedd was working with DJs/producer Johan and Bernie Yang, a.k.a. Beauz. “We had a couple of people top-line it,” Zedd says, referring to adding a lead vocal. “But it sounded disconnected between the track and the vocal. When I work on records, it can take years.
Still, some similarities between the song exist. The two reunited in the same Nashville studio, even using the same microphone that Morris employed for “The Middle”; like that song, “Make You Say” was wrapped up in a day. Wanting to be “extremely sensitive and respectful of something someone else had started,” Morris only tweaked a few words here and there to convey a woman’s point of view, but she largely adhered to Puth’s lyric.
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