The Chainsmokers get candid on ‘Call Her Daddy’ guest interview: ‘There’s a lot of things we regret doing’Chainsmokers Rukes

The Chainsmokers get candid on ‘Call Her Daddy’ guest interview: ‘There’s a lot of things we regret doing’

From rendezvous with fans in the earlier days of their career to toxic relationships to therapy and the growth that has followed, The Chainsmokers laid it all on the table during a guest appearance on Alexandra Cooper’s Spotify-exclusive podcast Call Her Daddy. It’s one of just a handful of interviews with Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall in recent years; in 2022, they spoke with a limited number of outlets, including Billboard, GRAMMY.com, and Apple Music 1 (with Zane Lowe), about their fourth studio album, So Far So Good, and their coinciding evolution, both personally and professionally. The LP, released in May 2022, went on to find a place on Dancing Astronaut‘s list of the Top Dance Albums of 2022.

The no-holds-barred conversation with Taggart and Pall about The Chainsmokers, then and now, comes with a level of candidness and maturity concordant with that of earlier interviews tracing the reasoning for their hiatus and their transition back into the spotlight following its conclusion. “There’s a lot of things we regret doing, but I think that’s just a natural progression for everyone,” Taggart tells Cooper. “I think there’s a lot of mistakes that we avoided too.” Their ability to sidestep some faux pas can be attributed, in part they say, to when they won their success: after college and a period of working comparably drab and mundane jobs that taught them the “value of a dollar,” adds Pall, who recounts his experiences as a receptionist stealing quarters from his roommate to afford Boston Market.

Although the internet will likely latch on to their admission of having threesomes with fans years prior (to perhaps no one’s surprise), the content of the Call Her Daddy guest slot is largely focused on this new chapter of The Chainsmokers, how self-reflection led them to it, and who they are today. “We feel like we’re just getting started and have so much that we want to do and say,” Taggart muses. Listen below.

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