Ruel And Macy Gray Brought Just What I Needed To 'TRL' This Morning

This Tuesday may have felt like just another Monday, up until Ruel and Macy Gray joined host Sway Calloway in TRL's Times Square studio to lighten up the morning.


Up first, Macy Gray revealed how her song "Sugar Daddy" came to be, writing with each other with star-in-her-own-right Meghan Trainor. Though Macy knew all about Meghan and her reputation for successful songwriting, the two had never met previously up until their writing session for the track. Macy also told Sway how her tenth studio album, Ruby, exists with the need to address today's current political climate head-on.





Next, Ruel did double duty on TRL this morning, sitting down with Sway before a magnificent efficiency to get the day began. Endorsed by the legendary Elton John, the 15-year-old talked about what that sort of encouragement means before listing off his other preference artists and dream collaborators, including Frank Ocean and Childish Gambino.


Taking over the TRL studio, Ruel stopped each person in their tracks with his spot-on vocals while performing his current single, "Younger." Soon after hearing the perfection from such a stripped-down efficiency, it's no surprise that Ruel's got people like Elton beyond him. Watch Ruel kill it with "Younger" below. TRL airs on weekdays at 8:00am ET.