Andrew Watt recently got candid and opened up about working with Elton John.
For those unaware, the 35-year-old American record producer and Elton worked on his major collaborative album with Brandi Carlile, Who Believes in Angels?, which came out on April 4, 2025.
While conversing with PEOPLE magazine, Watt stated that the 78-year-old British singer-songwriter and pianist resembles “Mozart or Beethoven,” especially when he works.
He said of Elton, “[He’s] a little more like Beethoven, I would say, and when he’s writing, he’s extremely volatile.”
The Mulberry Tree hitmaker went on to note that all music artists work in their own way, which is entirely different, but he had to perform in a specific way while collaborating with the Grammy-winning artist.
Watt recalled, “My job is to read the room, and if you’re in Elton’s eye line as he’s writing, you’re in the f****** lion’s den. So I would try and be around him to make sure I was close enough to when he would call for me or needs something, or I could hear what he was doing, what he was coming up with.”
Despite being attentive, the Rebel Nation crooner “would try and be out of his direct eye line” because Elton writes songs “in a way really no one else writes.”
“He takes [a lyric], puts it up on the piano, reads it, sees a movie scene in his head, and then scores the movie. And then as he’s scoring the movie, he starts singing the words, fitting them into the chords and coming up with melodies based on the words and the phonetics of the words,” Andrew Watt shared.
