What is the Midi Mafia sound?
Waynne: I think our sound is melodic, and we make it in so many genres. I don’t believe in regurgitating things. If you hear J-Lo and Midi Mafia, Fantasia and Midi Mafia, and 50 Cent and Midi Mafia and put them all next to each other, they’re all different but all very melodic. Swift: I always talk to Bruce about it because we don’t use the same musicians, instruments or sound. Our sound is not having a sound, in a way. Maybe there’s something to it because people say they know it’s a Midi Mafia beat. Everything we do is musical. I don’t know how people pick it out, but there is a common thread in what we’re building — the writing, the beats, some of the drum sounds. It’s production from the old-school approach: Mixing, writing, tracking and all that gives it a sound that will continue to grow. We work with so many people, and the next hit could be pop, then rap and all over the place. People hire us to do what we do and expect the Midi Mafia stamp, but we respect what the artists do.
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