Mike Posner 'Operation: Wake Up'

[Disco]

This is his second album after the moderate success of his debut 31 Minutes To Takeoff, and a string of singles including "Cooler Than Me", "Please Don't Go", and "Bow Chicka Wow Wow."

The first single is called "Looks Like Sex". It was serviced to radio this week and will hit iTunes on December 6.



He had a mixtape that came out on November 20 called The Layover
www.datpiff.com/Mike-Posner-The-Layover-mixtape.284023.html

[George]

His new single "The Way It Used To Be" is set to premiere soon!

[George]

He's doing a few shows here and there while in the process of recording his second studio album.

Recently he's released a cover remix of The Lumineers' "Ho Hey":



Additionally, he released a song called "Toast" back in March:

[Live Your Life]

The album is now called "Pages," and will be out in the Fall.

[Linnethia Monique]

IDGAF feat Pharrell. One of the like 6 songs they did during their sessions.

[allow that]

Who is actually checking for him? Oh shit! Pharrell's involved? I'll give some curiosity listens now.

"IDGAF" is actually quite hot. In fact, I think it's instantly catchier than "Blurred Lines" so it's a same it won't have the "first to market" benefit.

[Linnethia Monique]

A snippet of another track that they actually cut and finished. This is during the writing stages.

[Resident_Evil]

His first album was great and 'Bow Chika Wow Wow' is still my jam. Too bad the song and the album itself didn't do great. People slept on him for sure.

[Hurricane Lee]

I was gonna ask who the random chick singing was and when Mike was gonna come in. His voice is soooo high. OMG. I mean, at least he is unique but...

[George]

Video Premiere:

[George]

Mike Posner Explains Why New Album Will Be Called Pages (Recap)



Mike Posner is back in writing and recording mode. Quite literally in that order; the concept for his next album, Pages, focuses on what he's been jotting down in a notebook he's been carrying around everywhere he goes.



The first single off of Mike's Pages, "The Way It Used To Be" is an uptempo track that Mike says is "just a fun, fun song. Strong melodies… and it's about the girl that got away."

"My album is called 'Pages' because I write all my songs, and my poems and my goals in life in this notebook. So I titled the album 'Pages,'" Mike says, "because it's really just a few pages from my notebook that turned into the album."

"I write letters, sometimes," Mike explains. "When I jump off the stage I feel like there's no way for me to really repay what I've got and I feel so grateful and blessed – so I try to just say 'thank you. ' Sometimes I write a letter to the city, to the fans and I post that on Twitter."

Right now there is no schedule for the release of Pages, but Mike is looking forward to a late - fall date.

[George]

Mike Posner Talks About His Upcoming Album, and Writing Hits For Justin Bieber, Labrinth & Emeli Sande
By Jonathan Widran
Published August 23, 2013



Though there’s a touch of melancholy in his infectious new single and video “The Way It Used To Be,” Mike Posner has been having a blast on tour this summer, charming thousands of “Beliebers” opening 18 dates for Justin Bieber, followed by 12 dates with Ke$ha. The multi-talented singer, songwriter and producer, who co-wrote and co-produced Bieber’s platinum 2012 hit “Boyfriend” (#2 on the Billboard Hot 100), has good reason to be excited. Though he’s essentially done recording Pages, his upcoming follow-up album to his 2010 Top 10 debut 31 Minutes to Takeoff, not yet having a specific release date is allowing him time to write and produce more material that he may yet include.

Unlike most pop artists who support a hit debut with touring and then get right back in the studio to work on the next one, the 25-year-old Detroit native—whose debut single “Cooler Than Me” reached #6 on the Hot 100—has engaged in some exciting outside projects these past few years, writing and producing for other top artists and doing features and making cameos on numerous hit singles. In addition to “Boyfriend,” Posner has worked in the studio with Big Sean (“Don’t Tell Me You Love Me”), 2 Chainz (“In Town”), Wiz Khalifa/Snoop Dogg (“French Inhale”), Travis Porter (“That Feeling”) and Big Time Rush (“Windows Down”). He was a featured artist on “French Inhale” as well as Cher Lloyd’s “With Ur Love,” Avivii’s “Stay With You” and Sammy Adams’ “L.A. Story.”

For Posner, one of the most interesting of these between-album collaborations was “Beneath Your Beautiful,” a worldwide hit ballad by British singers Labrinth and Emeli Sande that became Labrinth’s first #1 single as a solo artist in the UK. Posner recalls, “I met Labrinth the first time I went to the UK when I was working on my debut album. Though the track we did together didn’t make it onto 31 Minutes To Takeoff, we loved working with each other. There was just something special about that guy. After my album came out, I went back to work on some new material with him and he said he was going to be a solo artist and thought it would be a great idea to write something together for his debut album, Electronic Earth. That day, we wrote ‘Beneath Your Beautiful’, which became one of the album’s later singles. Labrinth is kind of an angel. He plays everything, and he has one of my favorite voices in the world. He has that crying effect, a tone that gives me goosebumps when I’m with him. We brought in Emile and did that song in one take.”

Though Posner’s skills as a prolific writer/producer are in heavy demand, there’s a deeper, unexpected reason behind his choice to work behind the scenes with so many artists after the release of 31 Minutes to Takeoff. Despite his out of the box success, he really wasn’t sure he wanted to continue as a solo artist. “I had just finished college (Duke University) and suddenly, while I was still trying to figure out my life and what I wanted for my career, I was having hit songs,” he says. “I always assumed that once I had a record deal and a hit song, everything would be okay, that all of my problems would magically be solved.

“Little did I know that this quick success would actually exacerbate the problems,” Posner adds. “I felt like I was doing everything for the wrong reasons. I was enamored of the attention and not grateful for anything. I thought, if I could just stay home and write music and don’t need to travel and work so hard, why am I really doing it? So while I was trying to figure myself out and think about what I really wanted, I started doing songs with other people.”

Though Posner was fairly committed to his new course, he was on a plane one day when a lyric popped into his head that rebooted his faith in himself as an artist and ultimately inspired the songs that developed into his new album Pages. The words that changed everything for the singer were: “I can’t sing like Frank Sinatra/I can’t dance, I’m not that cool/I can’t act, I don’t have an Oscar/But I did pretty damn good when I found you.” The material he started working on in the wake of “Pretty Damn Good” was so personal that even when artists asked, he was adamant about saving these new songs for himself.

“My whole life switched back,” says Posner, who began making his own records when he was just 13. “I couldn’t quit, because who could I give these songs to that could sing them the way I could? Everything happens for a reason, and I realize now that I had to go through that crisis of conscience to get to where I am now. Pages is the best album I have ever made, with the best songs, ones that have truly been ringing in my ears. I feel that ‘Pretty Damn Good’ was my epiphany and the lyrical content of the song reflected what I want to stand for not just as an artist but also as a person and man. It’s incredible to me that one song could change the direction of my life, but suddenly it was as if I knew what I wanted to say on the album and knew sonically how I wanted it to sound.”

Though it’s still too early for Posner to reveal the names of his well-known writer and producer collaborators on Pages, he will say that a lot of those who he has written and produced for these past few years were happy to return the favor. The title is based on the concept that he writes all his songs, dreams, goals and personal poetry in a notebook, and the album for him includes select pages from that book.

“The cool thing about being an artist is that you evolution is a great representation of life in general,” says Posner. “I don’t think I’m supposed to stay the same artist throughout my whole career any more than I am supposed to remain emotionally stagnant as a person. The goal of life is to continue growing and to become a better person, just as the goal of an artist should be to grow and evolve and make better music all the time that reflects maturity and acceptance about the way things are. I kind of just feel like I’m a normal guy from Michigan who gets to live his dreams, and my goal now is to share my story and tell people if this normal kid can do crazy things and write and sing hit songs, maybe their dreams aren’t as far off as they might seem. When I fleshed out ‘Pretty Damn Good,’ I realized that this was the crux of everything. Not to be overly dramatic, but I feel like Pages is Mike 2.0.”

[Deleted]

Well his latest single did absolutely nothing.

[George]

His new single "Top of the World" is coming soon, off his upcoming EP "Page 1" due in October.



"Pages" is now scheduled for an early 2014 release.

September 23, 2013 at 6:22 pm
Mike Posner returns home to shoot music video in Detroit, at alma mater

By Adam Graham
Detroit News Pop Music Writer



Mike Posner celebrated homecoming this weekend when he returned to Birmingham Groves High School, his alma mater, to shoot a music video for his next single, “Top of the World.”

The Southfield-bred pop singer was on hand to film a performance scene in front of about 400 Groves students, who came to school on a Sunday to help out with the shoot. Nearly every team and club was represented, from the cheerleading and pom-pon squads to the cross country team, of which Posner was a member when he was a student.

Principal Cathy Hurley, who helped organize the shoot on less than a week’s notice, said students at the Beverly Hills school were excited about the return of Posner, who graduated from Groves in 2006. “He’s a big deal,” said Hurley, speaking for the students. “They know Mike.”

“Top of the World,” whose title may be switched to “The Top” by the time it’s released, will be featured on “Page 1,” an EP that Posner is slated to release next month. It’s a pre-cursor to his second album “Pages,” which will likely come out in early 2014.

The Groves scene is one of several set-ups for the video — Posner’s first locally filmed clip — which is being directed by Jon Jon Augustavo, who helmed the “Thrift Shop,” “Can’t Hold Us” and “Same Love” videos for Mackelmore and Ryan Lewis. On Saturday, Posner shot scenes in front of a handful of prominent Detroit landmarks, including the Joe Louis fist, the Spirit of Detroit, Joe Louis Arena (with a cameo from Detroit Red Wing Pavel Datsyuk) and Lafayette Coney Island. Big Sean, who is featured on the song, participated in the Saturday shoot, but was not on hand Sunday.

Scenes also were shot at The Palace of Auburn Hills, in front of a mural of Sean and Posner on Dexter Avenue and Waverly Street in Detroit, and in Posner’s parents’ basement, where he first started making music. The shoot was scheduled to continue Monday at several other notable Detroit spots, including Comerica Park and Posner’s elementary school Bingham Farms.

“The idea is to showcase Mike’s hometown — what his personality is, Detroit, his family, his friends,” Augustavo said. He called the experience “very positive,” and he is working to get Kid Rock to make a cameo in the video.

The Groves shoot found Posner performing the song in the school’s gymnasium in front the students, who filled the gym’s bleachers. Posner taught the students some simple choreography, and cameras rolled while he and the students performed the song several times over.

The shoot lasted around 90 minutes. The students were praised by the crew for their high energy, and Posner was in good spirits during filming.

“This is crazy,” said 25-year-old Posner during a down moment during the shoot. “I can’t believe I went here, and now I get to do this.”

After shooting wrapped, Posner participated in a loose question and answer session with the students, fielding requests to go to homecoming, along with questions about his favorite teachers at Groves and what it was like touring with Justin Bieber. He told the students that Groves’ diversity helped prepare him for college life (Posner graduated from Duke University), and he did a brief a cappella performance of his 2010 hit “Cooler Than Me,” with finger snaps provided by the students. Posner is scheduled to return to the school Tuesday to talk to students about his journey from student to pop star.

More scenes with Big Sean are scheduled to shoot in Los Angeles next month, and the video is due out in late October or early November, Augustavo said.

After shooting wrapped, Posner talked about the meaning behind “Top of the World,” which was produced by Diplo (M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes,” Usher’s “Climax”).

“It’s about being grateful for how far you’ve come, but still being hungry for more,” Posner said. “Which is a very tough tightrope to walk. Because you can be driven, but you downplay your own accomplishments. Like, ‘man, that really wasn’t anything, I haven’t done anything yet.’ Or, ‘man, I’ve done so much, I’m good.’ But if you can find that sweetspot, to where you can be like, ‘I’m proud of what I’ve done, but I’m going to keep going,’ I feel like that’s the trick in life.”

[livelikedying111]

I don't what exactly he did to himself but he looks hotter than ever. Maybe that could translate into sales? lol.

[Mack]

Back in 2010, when 'Cooler Than Me' and 'Please Don't Go' smashed, I thought he was going to end up becoming a pretty big star (well, as big as a male pop singer not named Justin can be). Too bad he fell by the wayside. I like a lot of the material on his first album, and I enjoyed 'Looks Like Sex' and 'The Way It Used to Be', too.

[musicbuff78]

I disagree about his looks. I think he was sexy in his debut days....now, he's just plain FUGLY.

[Disco]

Oct 1, 2013 0:56:40 GMT -5 musicbuff78 said:

I disagree about his looks. I think he was sexy in his debut days....now, he's just plain FUGLY.

I think he needs to hit the gym. He's about 10 pounds from looking really sexy. He's cute.

[George]

[Kishi KCM]

Mike still looks good to me. Nothing wrong with a little thickness, especially with his height.

His new song is OK, I forgot how odd his voice sounds.

[George]

"My Light" (Video Premiere):

[George]

New single for the summer:

[George]

He's no longer listed on the artist roster of RCA Records' site:

www.rcarecords.com/artists

[Resident_Evil]

This guy makes great music. I don't understand why the masses haven't embraced his music.

[Hurricane Lee]

...because he can't sing? Oh well. Maybe he can write more smashes for Bieber and still make money without resorting to selling his body.

[George]

Aug 7, 2014 12:32:05 GMT -5 Hurricane Lee said:

Maybe he can write more smashes for Bieber and still make money without resorting to selling his body.

He can do both?

[Pollen]

Aug 6, 2014 15:02:52 GMT -5 George said:

He's no longer listed on the artist roster of RCA Records' site:

www.rcarecords.com/artists

How bogus. They literally do nothing to promote the guy, then drop him because his singles fail. I don't think his last two singles ("The Way It Used To Be" & "Top of the World") even appeared on the front page of iTunes. Goes to show that labels hardly even help these days.

[SHOOTER]

He may have asked to be released.

[George]

He's currently got a Top10 hit, as he co-wrote Marroon 5's "Sugar"!

Some videos of Mike performing the song last year:

[tamed09]

Yeah the pre hook was different