PittacusLore4

"Welcome to the acoustic section! This is just, someone in the front row can maybe tell me yes or no to this question, when you guys are putting a bunch of flashlights up in a group, does that mean that people need help? Say yes if it means—okay, so we’re at the end of the night, so if I see that again, I’m going to try to point it out. I just didn’t know if you were like waving at me. But thank you so much. I needed to know clarification on that. Anyway, this is the acoustic section, and this is pretty much my favorite part of the show, because it’s different every night, and I’m always trying to challenge myself to customize this for every place where we are. And one thing that I have always been a huge fan of was, in terms of Sweden’s most incredible export, which is the genius pop songwriters and producers, and so in 2012, my life changed for the better because I started working with two genius Swedes named Johan Shellback and Max Martin. And Max is actually here tonight, and he is a shy genius, so I’m not going to bring him out onstage. But I am going to do what I am calling the Max Martin medley. I’m going to start with the very first song we ever wrote together, and I remember when we wrote this song, we wrote this song for Red and he was always, always saying he wanted to hear it live, and we’ve never gotten to have that happen until right now, so…."