ANDREW WATT CAN’T SAY WHAT HE’S working on. It’s mid-December in London, and the record producer behind hits by Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, and Post Malone is feeling a little tongue-tied. It’s not his news to share, you see. But it’s important—“the most excited I’ve ever been about anything,” he says about the mysterious project. What can he mention? First off, that it’s freezing outside. Really fucking cold. Every day is just a bundled-up shuffe from the hotel to the studio and back again, keeping quiet when people like me ask what he’s up to in the Big Smoke. Except Watt isn’t feeling stifled by the secrecy. Instead, he’s downright giddy. “It brings me to tears sometimes,” the 32-year-old admits. “It’s overwhelming to work with people who are part of your musical DNA.”
The star power of his Rolodex may not have lost its as well as his 2022 album, the Grammy-nominated And last fall, Iggy Pop logged his first rock-radio hit in more than 30 years (!) with “Frenzy,” which Watt cowrote, produced, and played guitar on. Eddie Vedder’s which Watt produced in its entirety, hit number one on the charts. In 2021, Watt won a Grammy for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical.
