Much like the rest of us, the producer Ian Kirkpatrick is having trouble concentrating. "As the weeks have been progressing, everything has been weighing on me more and more," he says from his home studio in Los Angeles of the global crisis spurred by the spread of the novel coronavirus. "It's all just terrifying." It's an especially bizarre time for Kirkpatrick whose career has recently reached an apex.
In March, he achieved his second Billboard Hot 100 top 10 single with Dua Lipa in the form of the brash earworm "Don't Start Now," which he co-wrote and produced.
Marking the biggest hit of Lipa's career when it peaked at No. 2 on the Hot 100, the track climbed up the charts after it dropped a mere week after the release of Selena Gomez's