troy: she had just gotten dropped from defjam reords at the time.rl with huge, dark sunglasses, fishnet stockings, no pants. she and i were kindred spirits. we really hit it off. emily: no one knew who she was. you could not even get "just dance" on the radio. you were playing clubs, multiple gigs a night, pounding the pavement. how did you finally break through? troy: she's probably the hardest working artist that i have ever met. you couldn't find an artist who put in more hours, studied the game, studied the craft. from songwriting skills to piano. she wasn't a dancer when we met. she was behind the piano. but she worked so hard on the choreography, all of a sudden, then she was a dancer. she wanted to compete on the highest level. emily: you started your own social network, "little monsters." i wonder how much that helped take her from here to international popstar. troy: you don't meet too many artists who really understand digital and social in that manner. it wasn't us educating her, it was just as much her educating us. i remember getting a