With you being so focused on History of Man this past year, does that mean we will be hearing Illangelo on Kiss Land?
You won’t be hearing me on
Kiss Land, no.
What was the decision behind that?
It’s something I’d rather not talk about.
That’s fine, it’s just that you had such a deep collaborative body of work with The Weeknd. You probably thought that question was coming, didn’t you?
Yeah, it’s just a very difficult one for me to talk about. I suppose...Yeah, it’s a hard one for me to talk about.
From the outside looking in, he’s working with different producers on this project so I figure you guys are going in two different directions. Could you say at least that’s true?
No.
That’s not the case?
No, not the case. It’s not the case because there were several situations, like when Abel had the songs that he did with Jeremy Rose, those are all songs that still passed by me that I still worked on. When we got the song from Clams Casino, that was still a song that I took and worked on as well. So other producers in the mix, absolutely not. In fact, I actually really encourage that, so no, that’s not
the reason why.
Do you feel this is something that’s never going to be discussed, or you just don’t feel it’s the right time?
I don’t think it’s something that will be discussed.
