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Date Posted: 19:49:08 02/02/02 Sat
Author: Alison
Subject: -->In here<--
In reply to: Alison 's message, "Feb 2002 Popstar magazine" on 19:47:32 02/02/02 Sat

Popstar! magazine February 2002

Wade Robson

The hottie who taught Britney to slither also makes beautiful music with Justin�and we�ve got him!

If Wade Robson is one of the first choreographers to become as famous as some of his most celebrated pupils, he�s absolutely *the* first to warrant a centerfold in a major teen magazine. He�s famous for his raw talent and his fresh style, but he�s a pinup for the same reason anyone is � he�s got a face and body that girls want to stare at over and over again.
Wade looks like a hottie, but he really doesn�t *look* like a choreographer � he�s quite tall with a solid build that looks like it would come in handy on the football field more so than on the stage. But when he dances, he has extreme control and grace.
Wade doesn�t *talk* like a choreographer, either � he spent most of our lunch at an organic restaurant in Manhattan discussing his plans for a singing career, his newly acquired songwriting skills and his uncanny ability to win famous friends and influence people.
Even though he�s lived for years in California, this Australian still has a slight, cute Aussie accent (especially when pronouncing words like conCEPtually), making him as fun to listen to as he is to look at.
Is Wade the next big thing in music?

Popstar!: What�s going on with you doing music now?
Wade: I�m really gonna start rockin� soon. I�m experimenting a little bit, playing around with different styles. Pretty much the style I�m gonna go with is gonna be a lot of rock elements, hip-hop beats, pop beats, dance music � but real dance music, get-up-off-ya-a** music � it�s gonna be a lot of fun.

Are you saving stuff for yourself now instead of giving songs to stars like Britney and Justin?
It�s hard to save stuff. Even �Celebrity� was supposed to be for me. I was workin� on that before Justin came around and said, �I like that.� It�s like, �Okay�� [Laughs] I gotta figure out how to start saving stuff, but I always just trust that I�m always gonna have new ideas and new stuff to do. Whatever�s happening needs to come out of the moment.

How did you and Justin start writing together?
After No Strings Attached, Justin and I had been talking for a while, so we just came to the house for a week and did five or six songs � we just clicked right away and knocked �em out. Four of them ended up on the album. When we were writing �Pop,� we were like, �There�s no way they�re gonna take this. There�s no way they�re gonna use this. We�re gonna have to give this to Michael [Jackson] or someone.� It was just too different. And then it ended up being the first single. And I had the second single, too, �Gone.� To have four songs on the album and the first two singles is pretty frickin� awesome.

No pressure there!
Yeah, their careers weigh on your shoulders. [Laughs]

Do you remember your earliest music?
It�s so funny how your stuff grows. When you�re first working on your stuff you think it�s so hot. [Laughs] Then you listen to it a year later and it�s like, �Oh, God! That�s BS!� Before I learned how to play piano, I always had an ear for it � I knew what sounded bad, so I would always just play the black keys �cause I knew I�d be safe so I wouldn�t go out of key! [Laughs] But I just work on tracks all day and I�m getting better and better.

How did you and Justin manage to find the *time* to collaborate?
We tries FAXes for a second, but just hated it. Then the first time we ever worked he got a week and just stayed at my house for a week. We actually wrote �Pop� riding around scooters around my neighborhood.
Even on the choreography we always clicked as friends. We got along probably the best outta all of them. When it came to the music end, it was just such a completely perfect match. Anything that I wasn�t that strong at, he felt completely vice versa, and we�d just finish each other�s sentences all day. If I was about to say something that we should do, he was already doing it. If he was about to tell me a change I should do I was already doing it.
It was pretty magical the way it happened, and we just wrote so much so fast. Probably of all the songs we wrote it was only two weeks� time spread out across four or five months, just whatever we could get. In-between shows when they were touring, they have like a day between every show so he�d fly out for the day to work on some stuff, fly back, then a few days later he�d fly back to finish it.

Do you ever have down time?
That�s the part I gotta figure out. My New Year�s resolution is to find a hobby that�s not a career.

You dance, sing, act�what are you *bad* at?
I�m not good in sports. I used to be. When I was in school and I was like 10, I was an awesome basketball player, but I stopped and I haven�t played since. I�m tall enough, I should play, but�

You�re funny, too � you were an original Meaty Cheesy Boy, right?
It was kinda funny because at the same time I was working with �N Sync and these bands, I was making fun of them. The funnest part was the Billboard Awards in �99, I think, because I choreographed Britney�s performances, but I also did The Meaty Cheesy Boys. She didn�t quite know how to take it. She was like [high, girlie voice], �I don�t know if I like this�this is not that funny��

People think of Britney as the world�s best dancer, but you *taught* her. How is she as a student?
She�s great, she�s improved so much over the past two years. The difference from then is incredible. What I try and do is I don�t treat her like a star, I treat her like one of the dancers to toughen up her skin. A lot of times I�ll just bring her into rehearsals while I�m choreographing and she just has to pick it up and just catch up with it. I just say, �Figure it out.�

Tell us about working on song with Britney for her CD.
We did this one song called �What It�s Like To Be Me.� I produced it, Justin and I co-wrote it and she was involved with the writing, too. What I wanted to do was do a song that really just kinda showed where she�s coming to in her life, how independent she is, how she knows what she wants, she knows how important her family is to her, her friends.
She�s just really finding her place and I�ve been noticing that about her lately, so we just sat down for hours and talked first, Justin, Britney and I, and we wrote down everything we talked about � fame, life, family, the stuff she hates, the press, the stuff she loves, why she still does it, why she still loves it, all of that. Pages and pages of dialogue. Justin and I went back through the paper and took sections and developed that into a song.
She�s not the average lady, she�s not what you see.

Since this is for our V-Day issue�are you available???
[Smiles broadly, eye twinkling] I�m available, I guess. The main thing is to find somebody who has something in their life that they�re really passionate about, preferably really not doing the same thing that I do. Not a choreographer, producer, stuff like that. Something I can learn about, they can respect what I do, I can respect what they do. When we�re apart we�re totally fine because we have other things to focus on. Someone who�s really strong. I can�t stand people who get stressed really quickly.
Certain things are out of your control, so just be mellow.

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