
I'm doing everything I can to rebuild Empire back, Pop. Why not make it public?Īndre: I just don't want to let you down. Look, I am proud of what my family did with Empire. Publicist: Can you stop referring to yourself in the third person?Ĭookie: Well, Cookie Lyon loves it, so get used to it. Publicist: Is it a problem? Do you even know where Lucious is?Ĭookie: I don't okay, but nobody gets to tell Cookie Lyon what she can and cannot do. They just need to know that Lucious and Empire are finally behind you.Ĭookie: That's none of their damn business, baby. And I'm so grateful we got to share in it.Publicist: Your trial run has been fantastic, and the producers want you to be a permanent co-host. He's not just a genius, but a genius of feeling. "You're not just working with a great guitarist or producer, you're working with classic heritage.

"That's why working with him was beyond words, really," Steele says. It helped, of course, to have Buckingham in the room, an old-school guy who, arguably more than any living artist, is responsible for that lush, breezy sound. In an effort to carry that vibe into the studio, he opted to use more analog equipment to return to the way music used to be recorded. It felt like being a part of nature again," Steele says.


"In Hawaii, our hotel on the beach had a giant banyan tree that stretched from the lawn into the living room.

When they traveled to Hawaii to record at Honolulu's Island Sound Studios, where Kanye West recorded My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, the tropical, breezy setting cemented the return-to-nature concept. He couldn't get the image out of his head. Steele says that when he and Littlemore conceptualized a direction for this album, they were drawn to an image of vines that grew out of the ground and into cities, wrapping around buildings and cars until they overtook the urban world. Sonically, "To Her Door" reflects Fleetwood Mac's warmest records - such as "Hold Me" or "Gypsy," which overflow with richness.
