The Dream’s got something to say…… Judging by The Dream’s work ethic since his emergence back in 07, we can safely assume this man hasn’t stopped working since. From penning hits for Celine Dion to Beyonce Knowles, it’s safe to say The Dream is becoming a seasoned vet, to say the least.

The singer/songwriter/producer stopped by DJ Skee’s west coast radio show recently to discuss a plethora of issues. Sophomore LP: Check. Writing hit records: Check! Auto-Tune: Check! Mariah Carey: Check! Oh and collaborating with Kanye West on his fourth album: CHECK! Here’s what he had to say about Mariah, the Auto-Tune and writing Beyonce’s, “Sinlge Ladies”….

The Dream on the Auto-Tune…. 

“I get it, you know? It’s just one of those things, like ok I get it. It’s a sound. What it is, it’s a sound that you would probably hear in a keyboard and everybody does this keyboard sound for a couple years and then it kind of fades itself out. It’s just a sound now that’s put on top of the vocal because it really doesn’t distort what you’re talking about. Either you have a lyric, a great song or you don’t. What’s special with Kanye is that he had a great lyric; I understood where he was coming from beyond the Auto-Tune part of it. It’s like, ‘Ok, this is great, I get it, and you told a story’. That kind of helped me, melodically; understand where he was coming from.”

The Dream on working with Mariah Carey for MC3….. 

“I’ve been working on this Mariah thing for the last four days. Her working title for the next album and what I like to call it, it’s “MC3”. I love her. Mariah’s everything. She’s down, she’s cool, she gets it; she’s all the way in there. I told her, it’s not like how it used to be where you can wait to come out with album, so I told her let’s do it and she’s up for it. I’m trying to do the whole thing. I think it’s just about writing an album that includes the focus of all the hits that she’s had. I mean, you have “Endless Love”, “My All”, “We Belong Together”, “Touch My Body”; you have those types of records, so it’s basically like creating greatest hits without using those actual hits.”

The Dream on writing “Single Ladies”…… 

“It’s actually a lot of research involved because I really take it seriously. There’s really nobody else to sing “Single Ladies” but Beyonce. It wasn’t a record that I was holding for anyone. I got to Roc The Mic Studios with nothing and that’s the record we walked away with 25 minutes later, “Put A Ring On It”. That was for her. I do that with every artist. There’s no song I’m passing around to everybody. I get in, we don’t know which record we’re going to do and we do that record which is specially designed for them.”

Hmmmm, interesting. What are your thoughts on Mr. Dream?? Is he what Mariah’s missing from her creative life????

Sincerely

Low “The Dream is alllllllllllllright in my book” Key  

TAGS: Beyonce, Mariah Carey, The Dream

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