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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Savan Kotecha Just Scored Major Cool Dad Points When His Kids Discovered He Wrote Justin Bieber’s “Beauty and a Beat” · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Justin Bieber's twenty twelve song becoming the number one song
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  Speaker 2: in the world fourteen years after its release after he
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  Speaker 2: made it part of his Coachella performance. Certainly prophets Justin himself,
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  Speaker 2: but it had an unexpected benefit for somebody else major
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  Speaker 2: cool dad points.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Savon Kotecha was one of the main songwriters on
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  Speaker 3: Beauty and a Beat, alongside his mentor, of course, Max Martin.
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  Speaker 3: And Savon went on to become very successful writing for
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  Speaker 3: Wende Ariana Grande Lizzo.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he actually did well enough that after he had kids,
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  Speaker 4: he decided he wanted to focus on their lives, so
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  Speaker 4: he kind of stepped away from seriously writing for several
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  Speaker 4: years now.
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  Speaker 2: And they're young enough so they didn't get exposed to
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  Speaker 2: dad's career at its peak. He reminds Billboard. They weren't
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  Speaker 2: even alive when Beauty and a Beat came out, But
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  Speaker 2: after Coachella his kids discovered it themselves over in Sweden,
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  Speaker 2: got obsessed and thought it was a new song.
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  Speaker 1: And Savin got to be like, no, that's your dad song.
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  Speaker 2: That's got to feel pretty amazing for dad and the kids.
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  Speaker 2: Beauty and a beat is on streaming that's direct from
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  Speaker 2: Maja alleywod