Maneskin Reach for the Stars With Max Martin-Produced Single, ‘Supermodel’ and Album

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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIt’s safe to say that although Italian rock quartet Maneskin were pretty huge in their home country and parts of Europe when they took the Eurovision stage last year, their name recognition and popularity exploded when they won the coveted prize with their song “Zitti E Buoni.” Over the past year, the group has seen their streams, sales and tour itineraries soar, appeared on “Saturday Night Live” and at the Coachella festival — and perhaps most impressive of all, began working with Max Martin, the most successful songwriter-producer of the past 25 years (from Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys to Katy Perry to the Weeknd and Taylor Swift), on their next album.Although the group premiere a new, anti-Putin song called “Gasoline” at Coachella last month, the first fruit of the new partnership arrives tonight: the single “Supermodel,” which drops tonight.

While Martin started off as a singer in a hard rock band, this is the first time in many years he’s worked with one — and it’s hard not to notice that the song’s riff owes more than a little to Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” “Yeeepppp,” bassist Victoria De Angelis acknowledges coyly. “It started off with Max, but we worked on it, Thomas changed it a bit and added more to it.”Guitarist Thomas Raggi adds, “I took a lot of inspiration from the California vibe!”The group has been working on the new album, which is not finished, in Los Angeles for the past three months.

Along with Martin, also involved are producers Mattman & Robin, Justin Tranter and others.“We met Max at our first gig in L.A.

in November,” De Angelis says. “He had heard of us because of Eurovision and we talked and then we decided to work together.”Singer Damiano David adds,.