Emily Cannon and MAX in Santa Monica on Feb. 18, 2024.Photo:Rich Polk/NBC via Getty
Rich Polk/NBC via Getty
It was basically love at first sight forMAXand his wife,Emily.
For the 31-year-old pop star’s new albumLove in Stereo, he largely wrote about his feelings for Emily, whom he married in 2016 and shares 3-year-old daughterEdie Celine. Now, he’s telling their romance origin story.
Before the pair officially started dating, MAX (whose full name is Max Schneider) met Emily (née Cannon) through a friend, who invited her to his performance at Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre in Tinley Park, Illinois, during a 2015 tour withFall Out Boy.
Emily Cannon and MAX in New York City in February 2020.Michael Loccisano/Getty
Michael Loccisano/Getty
“I was like, ‘Oh, that hot British girl, for sure. She should definitely come to my show,'” the “Butterflies” singer tells PEOPLE over lunch in New York City. “And then she’s like, ‘I think she’d be down to make out with you.’ I was like, ‘Sweet, let’s see what happens.'”
Emily came to the show, and they kissed right before MAX hit the stage. “I was like, ‘She’s it. I don’t want to see anybody else ever,'” he recalls.
Not wanting to leave Emily in Chicago, he invited her to fly to North Carolina for another show the following weekend.
“She was stupid enough to say yes — stupid in love enough,” MAX quips, referencing his latest single"Stupid in Love"from the new album. “Ever since, we’ve never been apart, and we’re going on nine years together.”
Upon their first meeting, the “Lights Down Low” musician was recently single and ready to live the “rock star lifestyle” that leads to kissing women backstage, which he’d never done before. But that all ended after the initial kiss.
MAX.Annie Noelker
Annie Noelker
“She’s believed in me the most and changed my whole life. She saw me the deepest and made me feel the most confident,” says MAX. “Every day, I’m like, ‘If she wants to be with me, then I can’t believe that she wants to be with me.’ That’s how I feel about her, and I am still really so in love with her.”
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A few months after the release of his last albumColour Vision, the couplewelcomed Edie Celine in December 2020. At the time, he swiftly wrote a sweet song named after their daughter, which appears onLove in Stereoas its closing track.
“My wife was sleeping, she’d just given birth, and I was just holding Edie, and that was the first natural thing that happened,” explains MAX. “I was just writing this song for her, and it was the core memory that I’ll never forget.”
source: people.com
