Haley Reinhart and Kris Allen talk about their newest collaboration, “Thunderclouds”, their American Idol connection and possible future touring/projects together for Forbes Magazine’s Steve Baltin. Full interview: Forbes Magazine
“Kris Allen: I love the craft of songwriting a lot. And, especially with straight-up-the-middle pop songs, some of them are masked in the production elements of it. This song, there is a lot happening in that in the original song, but I could always hear this is a great melody, this is a great idea, great lyric. They’re singing their tails off. And I could just hear it. And I feel like that doesn’t always happen. But I’ve had this in my brain to do something like this for a while, since I heard it the first time. And, I even made a little version of it for myself. I was like, “This is kind of fun.” I was like, “I want to put this out, but I don’t want to do it by myself.” So that’s when I was like, “Who would sing? Who would I want to sing this with?” And then my wife is just an uber fan of Haley. And so it was so easy. I thought our voices sound good together.”
“Haley Reinhart: I love it. What I really also want to hone in with this is that Kris is so easy going, I don’t necessarily want to talk about Idol, but he won the damn thing. I get third and we both kind of pave our own way and never to use that title as a crutch. I feel like we’re the rebels of the show in our own way because we have made our own labels. We’re both platinum recording artists, and it’s I want to send the message out this is possible. We’re still winning. We’re winning a lot, and we’re doing it our way.“
Kris Allen in his Instagram story about their newest release, an acoustic re-imagining cover of the 2018 single “Thunderclouds” by the ‘supergroup’ LSD (Labyrinth, Sia & Diplo)
““I gotta get some sleep but just wanted to say, I’m so happy this song is out in the world. Haley Reinhart is a treasure and couldn’t have imagined singing this song with anyone else. Thanks to everyone that’s already listened and I’m sure we will talk tomorrow”
Haley Reinhart added in her Instagram story: “Shout out to the best engineer, Rob Kleiner for recording my vocals for this LSD cover!!! (He ironically works with Sia & Labyrinth two of my all time favorite artists from day 1, both so brilliant) I hope they dig it! #thunderclouds”
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