[teesharky]

I found this on pulse-- I couldn't find a link, sorry. It is a snippet of a radio interview LA Reid did with Ryan Seacrest about the making of Just Stand Up. It seems that they picked the singers themselves, and they all agreed to do it--- they were not bidding to be on the song as wikipedia falsely claimed.


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Snippet of LA Reid interview talking about the making of "Just stand up"

Ryan Seacrest: Give me the premise on how this ["Just Stand Up"] all came together.

L.A. Reid: This is exciting. We had a meeting with Laura Ziskin and a group of ladies who came to the office really to solicit our help, to help pull off this telethon called "Stand Up To Cancer" and as we got into it and I really started to feel the impact that it had on these particular ladies, cancer, I'm talking about cancer, and the impact that it had on them and I really wanted to get involved. They wanted a donation. I said, 'Well, the record business is in really tough times now. We can make a contribution but it will be in music. And we'll sell a song for you and all the proceeds will go to your telethon.' But the idea more than that was really to try to reach people and touch people where they have pain due to cancer and other serious illnesses and things like that. So we came up with this idea to do a song and called all these girls and all the girls said yes.

These girls really got us excited. Kenny Edmonds (Babyface) as you know (is) my partner for many, many years and we actually haven't produced a record together in a long time but we promised each other to do it and we promised it on many, many occasions and everytime we were supposed to do it, I wouldn't show up to the studio because I really was afraid that it would be dated. I thought it might sound dated. It's easy to tell people when the record sounds good but when you have to actually make the record I didn't want to be judged. Anyway, we went in the studio and we talked and came up with this idea and came out with something that we're really proud of.

Ryan: How do you get all, I'm just looking at the names: Mary J., Mariah and Sheryl and Fergie, how do you get those girls to coordinate their effort for one song?

L.A.: Well, we called each one of them one at a time and everyone said yes. Everyone said yes they would do it. Now the logistics of getting everybody, oh my God, that was the nightmare! Getting people to say yes and to understand it was the easy. But we actually ended up recording each girl one at a time in different places. Kenny was flying all over the country. He really stood in the studio with everybody except Beyonce. We sent her the tapes. She did her part, sent it back to us.

Ryan: Did anybody have to do it again?

L.A.: No. There were people that we wanted to do it again to be honest. [Laughs]

Ryan: I know it's charity but can we get another take? [Laughs]

[Carrie_Rocks_The_House]

Very cool

[madeph]

Not very Ryan of Ryan to not mention Carrie Underwood. LOL The song has really grown on me and I'm really looking forward to seeing everybody on stage. I blast up the speakers when I hear Carrie's part...yeah, even though it's only a little over a few seconds!

[jovannaokitty]

kool i love this soong so much

[jaylee50]

Originally Posted by madeph

Not very Ryan of Ryan to not mention Carrie Underwood. LOL The song has really grown on me and I'm really looking forward to seeing everybody on stage. I blast up the speakers when I hear Carrie's part...yeah, even though it's only a little over a few seconds!

I agree with you. I was disappointed Ryan didn't mention Carrie. She is a big draw.

[cary78663]

Originally Posted by madeph

Not very Ryan of Ryan to not mention Carrie Underwood. LOL The song has really grown on me and I'm really looking forward to seeing everybody on stage. I blast up the speakers when I hear Carrie's part...yeah, even though it's only a little over a few seconds!

Jusy my opinion. But the only time Ryan mentioned specific names was when he was talking about the possible problems with coordinating the artists. I would think with Ryan's involvement with AI and IGB, he knows that Carrie is very cooperative with projects like this. So she would not be the person that would first come to mind when talking about coordination issue with the single.

[kewlie78189]

so love the song!

[madeph]

Originally Posted by cary78663

Jusy my opinion. But the only time Ryan mentioned specific names was when he was talking about the possible problems with coordinating the artists. I would think with Ryan's involvement with AI and IGB, he knows that Carrie is very cooperative with projects like this. So she would not be the person that would first come to mind when talking about coordination issue with the single.

Yeah I agree with you, but I was just saying in general. He normally just sneaks her name in there somewhere. I'm glad she doesn't act like a diva, like a few of them on the track as well.

[cabsmd]

Beyonce = Diva.

haha sorry, had to.

[carriefan0825]

awww. no carrie mention. oh well. i love the song.

[carries1gurl]

haha nice =] but I LOVE this song!!