INTERVIEW: MAX on What's Eye-Opening About Touring & Recording New Album

It's a new era for MAX, full name Max Schneider. After the success of his gorgeous, romantic masterpiece "Lights Down Low," the 25-year-old has returned with a brand new single called "Meteor." 

The sensual atmospheric new track, which showcases his falsetto abilities, hears MAX singing about how his special lady ... she's his meteor. "This perfect star I do adore/I am forever yours/My meteor/You're my, you're my."

MAX's previous single "Lights Down Low" is a special song for him, because he used it to propose to his wife. The singer/songwriter told iHeartRadio earlier this year of the track, "I wrote this song for my beautiful wife Emily; I proposed to her with this song. The song means the world to us, and it's beautiful that it's everybody's song now. It's awesome."

This all makes the song's recent Gold status achievement all the sweeter. He wrote of the milestone on Instagram, "My first plaque ever and it's for the song that means more to me than any others. This is OURS though my people. I am the smallest piece of the puzzle. My family, my friends, my HKA, my team, my fans I am the luckiest to be so blessed with such incredible people in our community. This plaque is just a reminder of the support we are so grateful to have from you all. Thank you from the bottom of my heart."

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MAX released his last full-length album, Hell's Kitchen Angel, back in April 2016, and has been hard at work on his next project. Over the last year, he's been featured on a number of different collaborations with artists like 3LAU, Audien, Illenium, and more, but has been hitting the studio hard for a new LP, which he calls the process "beautiful and "stressful." He told iHeartRadio:

"Working on the new record is beautiful and stressful in the best way. Because it's like, you just want to give the listeners the best you can, and not every song is the best. I like to do, like, 100 songs for a record, and so only ten of those make it. The other 90, I'm like, 'Aww, this isn't good enough.' So, I beat myself up a lot about it, but I'm excited to get there. I'll know when I get there, and that's what's been cool to work with so many wonderful, different writers, and on collaborations."

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MAX is currently out on his "Meteor" tour, and he tells iHeartRadio that a lot of his songs end up being eye-opening for him on the road as he makes his way across the country, and across the world. He explains:

"So much of the writing, becomes so apparent once you go to so many different places. Like, with 'Lights Down Low,' I always say, I somehow believe that love is a human right, and whether you're transgender, you're bisexual, you're straight, you're gay, that everybody should have the right to love who they want to love. And saying that in certain places in this country, and other places in the world, is not necessarily how people feel. And those are scary moments. But those are the moments where you realize, that's where we have to bring people together with music. We can't just say they're the enemy. We gotta say how do we figure out how to communicate with people, and I think music's such a beautiful way to do that. So, for me, it's wonderful to get to tour, because I get to see those people and how they react to certain songs, and see if we can just come together in a little more of a peaceful way."

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Photos: Rachel Kaplan


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