Zedd Breaks Down His Most Iconic Songs | GQ

Superstar Zedd shares how he started making music and breaks down some of his most iconic tracks, including 'Clarity,' 'Spectrum,' 'Stay the Night,' 'Beauty and a Beat,' 'Break Free,' 'Stay,' 'The Middle,' 'Lost in Japan (Remix),' and 'True Colors.'


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Zedd Breaks Down His Most Iconic Songs | GQ

[glamorizethechaos]

he's such a humble, talented guy. he deserves all the success he has :')

[crona]

I never knew that beauty and a beat was made by him, I just freaked out!!

[DonAltoGG]

Spectrum was my jam. Brings back so many memories.

[HowardCharlesUK]

After seeing Matt's posts about Zedd never giving him credit - Zedd seems to mention him a lot in this video...

[arathgalvan]

I follow him since 2010, and he’s one of my favorite producers of all the time. He’s not only a “dj” he’s a music genius, not for the “comercial tracks” that the radio needs, it’s more than that. If anybody want to know him, hear the anthem, then hear stars come out, then hear all the tracks of clarity and finally hear Done With Love and True colors (the original version) I start to follow him when I was 15 and for that time he sings in GoldFish Recs with people like Porter Robinson, great days guys. By the way, i remixed the Middle just because I respected him so much 🙏

[maurommmmm]

Super happy he talked about Spectrum. It's not one of the most notorious tracks of him, but it's the one that really made him known and cemented him in the EDM community, right before Clarity propelled him in the mainstream scene.

A bit bummed he's not talking about I want you to know, Beautiful now and Starving (the last one has a cool story behind)
Still a great video :)

[MrDJCoulton]

Insane how many hits this guy has. All these are straight up bangers.

[nutmeg.]

We need a part 2 so he can talk about, “Beautiful Now” (aka my favorite), “I want you to know” “Get Low” and “Starving” 😍🤩 I love Zedd’s music so much!

[samararaynerjohnson]

KESHA!! Thank you Zedd for what you did for her. I will forever be grateful, she saved my life and you helped her get through the torture of not being allowed to release music. Thank you

[IshanAli]

Have you seen this guys house! Look it up

[Fireboy]

My favorite Electronica artist hands down!! Seeing him live is so surreal and amazing. What a mega-talented guy.

[andrewp.stewart]

"Clarity”
"Stay The Night" with Hayley Williams of Paramore
"Spectrum"
"Beauty And A Beat" with Bieber and Minaj
"Break Free" with Ariana Grande
"Beautiful Now" with Jon Bellion
"I Want You To Know" with Selena Gomez
"Stay" with Alessia Cara
"The Middle" with Maren Morris and Grey
The "Lost In Japan" remix with Shawn Mendes
"True Colors" with Ke$ha
"Get Low" with Liam Payne
"Happy Now”
“365” with Katy Perry
Like this comment if you like all these songs.

[justinlanglois]

"Beautiful now" is my favorite

[thea]

I'm so happy that he got Foxes to sing on Clarity. Her voice is perfect for it and it introduced her to so many more fans <3

[iordanus]

WHY DOES NO ONE TALK ABOUT "DONE WITH LOVE"

[chrisherber]

Spectrum was his best. I used to really love Zedd, and I respect his decision to go into more dance pop, but his other two fellow prodigies, Porter and Madeon are in another level when it comes to creativity.

[jayenvanz]

One of the more obscure songs, Papercut, officially sealed me as a Troye Sivan fan back in 2015

[peiransong]

After all these years, Spectrum is still my favorite track of him. There’s something so special about the chord progression change of that song and I think that’s the track that defined his signature electro house sound

[vidusheesharma]

Clarity
Beautiful now
Stay the night
Happy now ❤

[andrewp.stewart]

I honestly believe that the "Beauty And A Beat" music video would have been even cooler with Zedd in it as the DJ.