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Victoria Monet Says This Is the Most Important Thing You Need to Write a Great Song · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Victoria Money on DATI has a knack for songwriting. Ask
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  Speaker 2: her friends Ariana Grande, Chris Brown, and Ti, who've all
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  Speaker 2: called on her to pen smashes for them. It's something
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  Speaker 2: Victoria's done steadily for over a decade now, writing her
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  Speaker 2: own material as well. But she doesn't think her best
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  Speaker 2: stuff necessarily comes from how often arow regularly she writes.
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  Speaker 2: More so, it's what she's feeling, she tells Rolling Stone.
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  Speaker 2: Your best songwriting comes when you have something you've experienced.
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  Speaker 2: I used to look at it in a machine type
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  Speaker 2: of way. Just write every day, no matter if you
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  Speaker 2: have anything to write about, just do it. But I
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  Speaker 2: found that my better songs came when I had a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of time away from it. I came back
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  Speaker 2: because I was excited all over again. Victoria Money's words
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  Speaker 2: There or single on My Mama is out now.
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  Speaker 1: That's Direct from Hollywood