Snapshot · Call Her Daddy
Chloe and Timbaland created the mixtape Resurrection entirely remotely over two months by sending beats back and forth without ever meeting in person.
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The Resurrection collaboration is a masterclass in how the modern music industry works — and how posting your process can change your career. [1] — Chloe Bailey "Chloe posted a rough beat on Instagram for fun. Timbaland commented 'this is hard,' then DMed her. Two months of trading beats remotely lat…" 1:01:40 Timbaland commented 'this is hard' on one of Chloe's Instagram production videos, then slid into her DMs asking if she was doing anything with the beat. She wasn't — it was just Instagram content. But he proposed a beat video, then a full project. They worked entirely remotely over two months, never in the same room, trading stems and ideas. The project came together so naturally that they made roughly ten more songs than made the final cut. The detail that ties it all together: the mixing engineer turned out to be the same person who had mixed Chloe's very first solo album — and all of Timbaland's catalog. Everything, sonically, came back to the same source.
Chloe posted a rough beat on Instagram for fun. Timbaland commented 'this is hard,' then DMed her. Two months of trading beats remotely later, they had a full project. The mixer turned out to be the same man who mixed both Timbaland's catalog and Chloe's first album.
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