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Why Mae Muller’s Breakout Hit “Better Days” Almost Didn’t Happen · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. May Mueller is a
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  Speaker 1: name you'll be hearing a lot more of in twenty
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  Speaker 1: two with her bouncy hot single Better Days feature in
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  Speaker 1: Polo Gee, seeming to grow bigger and bigger by the minute.
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  Speaker 1: With the breakout song Almost Never Happened. May had traveled
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  Speaker 1: to Sweden to write music with the producer Naked. While
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  Speaker 1: she was there, he having a player something he'd already
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  Speaker 1: come up with on his own, called Better Days, and
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  Speaker 1: she couldn't deny how good it was, but was hesitant
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  Speaker 1: to record it. May tells Billboard, I feel like I'm
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  Speaker 1: a songwriter first and foremost so to me, taking the
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  Speaker 1: song was a really scary thing, But I thought this
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  Speaker 1: a banger. If I don't try it out, the only
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  Speaker 1: person that's gonna lose is me. I never wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be a cool, underground artist. I want to be a
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  Speaker 1: pop star. I wanted to travel the world. I want
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  Speaker 1: to be on the charts. I never shied away from that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: with that attitude of my May stepped into the vocal
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  Speaker 1: booth and Better Days became her first song to hit
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  Speaker 1: the charts, and two look Going to be Big. That's
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  Speaker 1: direct from Hollywood,