'The Middle': Watch How a Pop Hit Is Made | Diary of a Song

Using voice memos, demos, texts and interviews, we reconstruct the wild ride of how Zedd, Maren Morris and a 23-year-old songwriter turned a few chords into an enormous hit, “The Middle.”

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[SocratesCrime]

The songwriter Sarah I actually really liked her vocals too. I would love to hear her whole rendition of it as well.

[RaheemD]

This is like a group project, Sarah is the quiet one who did the bulk of the work but doesn't get much recognition and then Zedd is the popular kid that does the bare minimum but gets the most recognition lmao

[shadaflorida]

the producers for months: why can't we find someone.. exactly like sarah... but that isn't sarah...

[NihalHabeebSelfy]

Can't find Sarah's name anywhere and the vocalist don't even know her!! Wtf?! Is this how the industry works?!

[cvavisuals]

Am I the only one that keeps playing Sarah's version over and over? The rasp and tonality! At least let us get the full demo version.
I like both version tho.

[aarondavis]

Can we get a version with just Sarah. Her voice works better.

[GramGramAnimations]

I'd love to hear a version with just Sarah

[jazua]

Forreal Sarahs voice is amazing, and i think Zedds name is big enough by itself to have had Sarahs vocals in the final product, and still have the same success

[djb]

why go through all the trouble of finding someone that was as good as Sarah? Just use Sarah...

[RobAlfieInostrozaLindley]

I really like the song, and I love Zedd. But after seeing this I felt kind of weird when he said "my new song". When it was originally written by this other girl, produced by these other two guys who gave it to these other two guys who talk to Zedd about about it ...? thoughts?

[shaniarover]

Zed, Morres and a '23 year old songwriter' ? How bloody hard is it to give someone credit by their name?

[doney]

You can clearly see how Zedd barely did much. It’s due to the fact he has the connections. Sarah could literally work by herself. I love Sarah. She is so talented and has so much value.

[Quarksi]

Sarah's demo is the romanticized nostalgia version you hear in your head when you remember this song. She really did it best.

[melloe]

k I need to find out more about this Sarah person

[nogoogleplus]

I hope Sarah made the most $ from this, she deserves it the most, it came from her.

[jzaszczurynski]

Sounds like Sarah is on track to become the new Julia Michaels

[cupofbeer]

2:55 - anne marrie
2:58-tove lo
3:00- carly ray jepsen
3:14 - lauren
3:16 - charli xcx
3:18 - elle king

[jeremydeering]

I love how Zedd said he was premiering “his” new song...that someone else wrote the melody and lyrics to and another person did the vocals for...nice work Zedd...

[kylekue]

I feel like Sarah is the one that actually sang it.

[Henry-yoqf]

If you couldn't find a vocalists then why didn't you try Sarah Zed?!