Ryan Tedder: OneRepublic Frontman and Songwriter to Stars like Beyonce, Taylor Swift, and Adele
The Great Creators with Guy Raz
What Happened to You in 2018?
I was doing next to nothing. I wasn't booking any sessions. He called me out of the blue and said, he's like, Teder, what are you doing? The first day, he coaxed me into it. And I wrote with them and Charlie Puth what became the first single for five seconds of summer calling Easier. It became a big streaming hit for them. Huge hit. Then the second day we recorded a song that ended up on a Warner Public album. Next week we did a Crazy Sam Smith song with Sam Smith. And then Miley Cyrus, we did the majority of the album together. On the very first session, I think the magic might be
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