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Mike Posner
American
Musician
Born:
Feb 12
,
1988
Me
Music
Myself
People
Song
You
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Just be yourself and be upfront about your expectations and desires. Don't be ambiguous and play hard to get. It doesn't work. You'll end up in the friend zone.
Mike Posner
Work
You
Yourself
Be Yourself
Just Be
About
Friend
Ambiguous
End
Up
Upfront
Expectations
Get
Just
Just Be Yourself
Your
Hard
Play
Zone
Desires
I looked at myself and realized I had a lot of boundaries up about what I would talk about, what was private for me and what wasn't. I decided to just get rid of them. It was quite liberating.
Mike Posner
Myself
Me
Liberating
Would
About
Had
Boundaries
Looked
Talk
Private
Lot
Up
Get
Quite
Just
Decided
Them
Realized
Rid
I just sing over hip-hop beats, you know. That's what I've been doing. That's what I started in '09 in my dorm room.
Mike Posner
You
Beats
Over
Know
Sing
Hip-Hop
Doing
Been
Just
Dorm
Room
Started
I had an initial wave of popularity that, in time, crashed, and I slowly became less popular and less successful, and I had to figure out who I was without those things.
Mike Posner
Time
Wave
Those
Out
Slowly
Had
Became
Without
Crashed
Successful
Figure
Less
Who
Initial
Popular
Popularity
Things
I grew up a hip-hop kid doing mix-tapes.
Mike Posner
Kid
Hip-Hop
Doing
Up
Grew
I co-produced 'Boyfriend' by Justin Bieber and worked on Labrinth's album, so I've been keeping busy.
Mike Posner
Busy
Boyfriend
Been
Justin
Justin Bieber
Worked
Keeping
Album
When I recorded 'Cooler Than Me', I had been singing for like, three months at the most. I was just a producer experimenting with my voice on tracks, and now I'm, like, a really good singer in a legit way.
Mike Posner
Good
Me
Three
Singing
Way
Months
Recorded
Voice
Had
Like
Most
Singer
Tracks
Been
Than
Just
Experimenting
Producer
Really
Cooler
Now
It took me a long time to stumble upon a sound, and I figured out I wanted to kinda sing rapper's lyrics.
Mike Posner
Time
Me
Rapper
Long
Long Time
Stumble
Took
Lyrics
Out
Kinda
Sing
Sound
Wanted
Figured
People like me for my songwriting and production, not my singing.
Mike Posner
Me
People
Singing
Songwriting
Like
Production
I feel like my best music is still ahead of me, and I can't wait for everyone to hear it.
Mike Posner
Music
Best
Me
Wait
Everyone
Feel
Like
Still
Hear
I love the fact that I don't have a real job!
Mike Posner
Love
Job
Fact
Real
Real Job
I take a lot of pride in my songs.
Mike Posner
Pride
Take
Songs
Lot
Nothing means more to me than making the best music and me getting better as a writer and producer... I want you to know I work really hard. The bar is really high.
Mike Posner
Work
Music
Best
Me
You
Better
Nothing
High
More
Writer
Know
Making
Than
Getting
Getting Better
Want
Bar
Producer
Really
Means
Hard
When I went to college, I made my first mixtape, and Sean gave me three verses for it. That was a big reason anyone ever listened to my music. I definitely wouldn't be talking to you now if it wasn't for Big Sean.
Mike Posner
Music
Me
You
Made
College
Three
First
Big
Gave
Definitely
Talking
Verses
Listened
Anyone
Reason
Sean
Now
Ever
If my career was a basketball season, I'm in the pre-season still. I'm not blowing everybody out by 40 - there's so much work to be done, and there's no time to really sit and look back and be proud of what I've done yet, because it's the pre-season still.
Mike Posner
Work
Time
Sit
Everybody
Back
Out
No Time
Look
Because
Proud
Still
Blowing
Done
Much
Really
Season
Career
Basketball
I realized that a lot of people in my family had sacrificed for me to have the opportunity to go to a place like Duke. I owed it to them to finish. I graduated with a 3.6.
Mike Posner
Family
Me
People
Opportunity
Finish
Sacrificed
Had
Like
Go
Duke
Lot
Owed
Graduated
Place
Them
Realized
It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on.
Mike Posner
Art
Time
Understanding
Society
Easier
Point
Make
Going
Certain
Certain Point
I like regular girls.
Mike Posner
Girl
Like
Regular
I stay up too late pretty much every night working on music.
Mike Posner
Music
Too Late
Every
Too
Late
Stay
Pretty
Up
Much
Working
Every Night
Night
I cared too much about people liking me because I didn't like myself enough.
Mike Posner
Myself
Me
People
Too Much
Too
Enough
About
Like
Liking
Because
Much
Cared
It's just about being honest. I listen to a lot of stuff that's out there, some of which I wrote, and I'm like, 'Where is that? Where's the honesty?' So that's what I want to get to in my music now.
Mike Posner
Music
Honesty
Out
Some
About
Stuff
Like
Wrote
Lot
Get
Listen
Just
Being
Where
Want
Which
Being Honest
Now
Honest
I think I was blessed with this talent for a reason. No one told me how to write a song, but I'm just good at it, you know. There are a lot of other things in my life that I'm not so good at, but writing a song is not one of them.
Mike Posner
Life
Good
Me
You
Song
Writing
My Life
Blessed
Think
Other
Write
No-One
Talent
Know
How
Lot
Just
Them
Reason
Things
I did rap when I was a teenager - started rapping when I was nine, and started singing when I was 20. I kinda sing like a rapper would sing.
Mike Posner
Rapper
Singing
Teenager
Nine
Rap
Kinda
Would
Rapping
Like
Sing
Did
Started
A lot of people considered my career as an artist largely over. Two albums got shelved. But I've made music since I was a little kid, and for the majority of that time, I wasn't paid for it. So I will always be making it.
Mike Posner
Music
Time
People
Will
Made
Considered
Kid
Over
Since
Majority
Always
Got
Making
Lot
Artist
Little
Little Kid
Paid
Largely
Albums
Career
Two
Tons of people inspire my music, and now when I do an interview, I'm scared to say who they are.
Mike Posner
Music
People
Inspire
Interview
Say
Scared
Who
Now
Tons
I'm scared to give gratitude to the people that, if I hadn't heard their stuff, I wouldn't be able to make music.
Mike Posner
Music
Gratitude
People
Scared
Able
Give
Stuff
Make
Heard
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