Andrew Watt recently got candid and spoke about working with Elton John.
For those who don’t know, the 35-year-old American record producer and Elton worked on his major album in collaboration with Brandi Carlile, Who believes in angels? released on April 4, 2025.
By discussing with PEOPLE magazine, Watt said the 78-year-old British singer-songwriter and pianist is like “Mozart or Beethoven,” especially when he works.
He said of Elton: “[He’s] a little more like Beethoven, I would say, and when he writes, he is extremely volatile.
THE Mulberry Hitmaker went on to note that all music artists work in their own way, which is totally different, but he had to perform in a specific way while collaborating with the Grammy-winning artist.
Watt recalls: “My job is to read the room, and if you’re in Elton’s line of sight while he’s writing, you’re in the goddamn lion’s den. So I was trying to be close to him to make sure I was close enough to when he would call me or need something, or that I could hear what he was doing, what he was inventing.”
Despite his attention, the Rebel Nation The crooner would “try to stay out of his direct line of sight” because Elton writes songs “in a way that no one else writes.”
“He takes [a lyric]puts him on the piano, reads him, sees a movie scene in his head, then composes music for the movie. And then, as he’s composing the music for the film, he starts singing the words, putting them into the chords and creating melodies based on the words and the phonetics of the words,” explained Andrew Watt.
