Chasing Gen Z Is Overrated ft. Party Pupils | EF EP 161

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What happens when you stop chasing the young crowd and start making music for the audience everyone else ignores? Host Olivia Mancuso sits down with Party Pupils — the producer behind the Yacht House sound, newly signed to UTA and selling out rooms for the first time in a career that started back in 2001.

He's candid about the stretch where it wasn't working: time off the road, tickets that wouldn't sell, and getting bitter about social media instead of learning how it works. What turned it around was narrowing the scope — knowing exactly who his audience is, building a page people come to hang out on rather than be sold to, and finally getting years of unreleased work out into the world.

They also get into how sample clearing actually happens now, why labels want a ready-made package, and how to handle the hate that arrives with real reach. It's a grounded conversation about staying independent, aging in dance music, and defining success on your own terms.

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