Ryan: And now, with very accurate drum position,
the multitime,
thousands upon thousands of times award winner
and one of the greatest musicians and overall
human beings in the history of the world...
your friend, my friend, Hailey's wife, Justin...
oh I said Hailey's, Hailey's wife, I said.
I've got to say...
Justin: It was so good though.
Ryan: All right, I'll do it again.
♪ You've got that yummy yum, that yummy yum, ♪
♪ that yummy yummy. ♪
♪ Yeah, you've got that yummy yum, that yummy yum, ♪
♪ that yummy yum. ♪
This is my beat up Buick right here.
Thought it would be cool to do a shoot on this thing.
About to go inside and cut the song,
"Running Over."
You ready? Josh: Yep.
Justin: ♪ Equal... ♪
Scooter: I've tried to take a real step back
and allow him his process.
And my involvement in the earlier albums is
finding songs and finding producers and finding writers.
But really from "Journals" on, his process usually starts
with him just going in and experimenting for
a solid six months before we even talk one song.
♪ I'm home. ♪
♪♪♪
♪♪
♪ Every sound like a bullet... ♪
♪♪♪
♪ Oh no. ♪
♪ Whenever you're around... ♪
- Hey.
- Yo, I'm so pumped.
Justin: Right, yeah, yeah, of course he is, party.
Hailey: Hey. Justin: Keith's here.
Ryan: I initially got connected to Justin back in 2009.
You know, the joke was always like,
Usher hired me to be his swagger coach.
♪♪♪
♪ Got a sweet car and I'm staying out with you... ♪
♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh. ♪
Justin: Yeah, no, you do this one.
[Laughs]
Ryan: We'll do the ad libs and then,
and then we'll just go from there, okay.
Josh just wants to go home.
[Laughs]
♪ New perspective from life. ♪
How's that? That's great.
That's really good.
Okay, you see what I did there?
Justin: Yeah. Ryan: Yeah, okay.
Justin: ♪ Whole new perspective on life. ♪
Ryan: Watching Justin do what he does is pretty...
it's pretty special.
I mean, in the studio, in that booth, like,
he goes into a different world.
And he, ah, he's just really good at what he does.
And it's cool to be able to, like,
watch the process of it all.
♪ Yeah, every time I come around, you get it done. ♪
♪ 50-50 love the way you split it. ♪
♪ Hundred racks, help me spend it, babe. ♪
♪ Light a match, get litty, babe. ♪
Josh: Justin has enabled my whole entire career.
About 10 years we've been working together.
♪♪
Justin: I love Josh, he helps facilitate everything,
makes everything a lot easier.
And I've known him for so long,
we just have a chemistry, and we just vibe together, so...
Yeah, me and Josh are super close.
Josh: You know we collaborate in different ways.
I get songs for him.
I cut his vocals.
I mix his vocals.
I mix his music.
Just like a music curator for Justin.
Scooter: I think Josh Gudwin is incredibly instrumental
in his process.
They've been working together, vocal engineer,
and you know, album producer for a long time now.
Justin: All right.
Josh: All right, give me one sec here.
Justin: No.
This is-- we work fast, bro.
Josh: Oh, we work very fast, it's true.
He puts you in kind of tough situations,
but at the end of the day those situations make you strong.
Justin: My favorite thing about working with Josh
is probably, um, just the fact that I love him as a person.
I'd love to just sit in a room with him and just chill.
So, like the fact that I get to like hang,
listen to tunes, like vibe.
Laugh, we have a really similar sense of humor.
Hey, Josh, Josh, I don't pay you to go to the bathroom, bro.
Just so, just so you know.
Allison: Josh is kind of the recording sherpa.
Josh is really the only one in the room cutting him
and vocal producing him and helping him pick the songs.
Josh is a very integral part of Justin making music
and has been since the beginning.
There isn't an album Justin has worked on that Josh
hasn't been a part of with him.
Justin: He knows when I'm like,
I don't have it during the day.
Like sometimes I'll come in and it will be like,
it just won't be a day for me to like get anything done.
And he'll just basically know, like, all right, JB, like,
let's just come back and get it tomorrow.
You know, and I know I don't take that as like,
what, you think I'm shitty today?
I'm just like, yeah, you're right,
I just don't have it today.
♪ Where you going? don't go far, love. ♪
♪ Blessings sent to me, that's what you are, love. ♪
♪ Ride through life for me, hop in the car, love. ♪
♪ Blessings sent to me, that's what you are. ♪
Hailey: I love being a part of the process.
I love watching him do what he's so good at.
Even if it means me laying on the coach until 3:00,
4:00 in the morning binge watching TV shows
and just being around.
I just enjoy the energy that goes into it.
We turn it into a really fun process.
You know we brought friends around and people just kind
of hang and I don't know I just feel at home wherever he is.
So if he's hold up in the studio,
that feels like home to me.
Scooter: Singing songs, sharing his music,
it's one of the things that makes him happy.
It's one of the things that he loves to do.
It feeds his soul.
So to see him back in the studio, it brings me joy,
because I see the joy he gets from making music
and sharing music.
I'm pumped, I missed hearing his voice.
♪ I'm not feeling good enough. ♪
♪ All I ever did was let you down. ♪
♪ Never understood why you stayed around. ♪
♪ Ever since I can remember... ♪
Josh: After "Believe," Justin started taking
more control of his creative ideas.
As a young artist, you know, things were chosen for him,
and now he's fully accountable for his choices on this album.
He's in a once-in-a-lifetime spot in, you know,
in his whole life right now.
Justin: This is going to be so beautiful.
I'm going to destroy this part, bro.
Hailey: He is such a perfectionist and he's so good
at what he does that there's a whole different energy when
Justin is really like in his zone and really doing his thing
that I can't really explain.
And maybe by watching this people will kind of get a
glimpse into his world.
Justin: I'm just going to get in the zone a little bit.
♪ Sometimes it feels good to cry-yi-yi-yi. ♪
♪ Cry-yi-yi-yi-yi. ♪
That was hard.
That was hard, dude.
Ryan: He works extremely hard.
He's a perfectionist.
You know he wants to recut songs all of the times, like,
because he hears things that other people don't hear.
Justin: We've got to recut "Double Negative,"
because that's an old, old vocal.
We should cut "Changes" today, right, line by line.
Yeah, it sounds terrible.
- Okay. Line for line.
Justin: Am I perfectionist?
Oh yeah.
♪ Love the way you split it. ♪
♪♪♪
♪ 50-50 love the way you split it. ♪
The reason why I sing it so many times
and people probably don't understand,
I want it perfect.
I can never remake this album.
It's just, once it comes out, it's out, you know, so...
It's got to be perfect.
I think for me things have always been so polished and
so, like, perfect and everything needed to be
so perfect and I just felt like I had to worry
about literally everything.
Like, don't touch your face that way,
don't touch your hair.
You're ruining-- you've got a stain on your shirt.
Like, that's why these little things like--
I really just don't want to even make that a huge deal.
Anyways, I could get how audio could get...
if I'm doing this the whole time.
I'm done.
That's it, right?
That's a wrap on "Yummy."
We'll see you next, ah...
next song...
ya freaks.
♪ Every time I come around, ya get it done. ♪
♪ 50-50 love the way you split it. ♪
♪ Hundred racks, help me spend it, babe. ♪
♪ Light a match, get litty, babe. ♪
♪ That jet set, watch the sunset kinda, yeah, yeah. ♪
♪ Rolling eyes back in my head, ♪
♪ make my toes curl, yeah, yeah. ♪
♪ Yeah, you've got that yummy yum, that yummy yum, ♪
♪ that yummy yummy. ♪