Good decision.ĬHVRCHES write songs in a pretty unusual way, it turns out. “It was a combination of sweetness and desperation,” he says here, “which I really think does encapsulate Carly’s vibe.”īest detail: Jepsen was very reluctant to belt out the song’s huge “ Hey” moment, but Reichtshaid convinced her to keep it.
In order to balance the positivity of the music with the negativity of the lyrics, she then sought out Ariel Reichtshaid, who added huge drum fills, bell sounds, and also tweaked the progression of the bassline to bring lightness and darkness to the song in equal measure. Later, Dan Nigro and Nate Campany brought her a major-key track, which fit with the original vocal melody she’d written. The closing track on Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘Emotion’ started life as a minor-key demo made with Tavish Crowe, with lyrics about refusing to change for someone else. When recording she waited for the perfect microphone to record every detail in her voice to make her sound like a “really high-definition human.” She also let electronic producer Arca have an equal hand in making the song, adding soft production to keep it light.īest detail: Björk did two sets of arrangements for thirty strings players – so sixty strings lines in total – to give the sound of the strings a “panoramic, smooth, cream-like perfection”.ĥ.
Icelandic music legend Björk wrote ‘Stonemilker’, from the album ‘Vulnicura’, after walking along a beach and realising she needed clarity and simplicity in a relationship that wasn’t working. Given the delicate subject matter, producing a version that Barnett was happy with was no easy matter: eventually she used brushes for the drums, kept the guitar and vocals minimal and even cut out her idea for a big swelling vocal group at the end.īest detail: Turns out the song is actually about a house in a completely different town, because Barnett had seen a few houses and got mixed up – but she’d already written the song by then, and Depreston was a name her friends already used for Preston, so she kept the name. Melbourne songwriter Barnett was looking around a house in Preston when she came up with the idea for this song, which is kind of about snooping in someone else’s home and kind of about the crushing weight of mortality. Kelela employed several producers to mix various versions of the song – Miami bass sounds, reverse samples and explosions were requested – before merging various elements of each producer’s work into the same track.īest detail: The finishing touch to the track, from Ariel Rechtshaid, was the clave – a percussion instrument consisting of two wooden sticks. The LA-based alt-R&B singer-songwriter wrote these lyrics about a friend’s experience of going back into a club to find a girl she’d been hanging out with all night, only to never see her again. Listen in at around 3.53 and kick yourself for missing it before.
There’s also information about how they worked with Flaming Lips producer Dave Fridmann to hone the track for the album – including adding an instrument called a Thingamagoop, and speeding it up to the same speed as Abba’s ‘Dancing Queen’.īest detail: Incredibly, ‘Time To Pretend’ contains a tiny piano homage to ‘Dancing Queen’, hidden in the mix. The pair made the sounds for this track on a laptop at college, writing the lyrics according to what they label an “ironic mission statement” that ended up making them mega-popular. In which Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser cringe at their regrettable decision to wear druid capes on national television – an inside joke that got out of hand. The 15-minute shows provide a fascinating and insightful glimpse into the workings of a huge range of musicians – here are 10 highlights of the series, which has been going since January 2014. In each edition he interviews a musician about a particular song they wrote, cutting out his side of the conversation to allow the artists themselves to unwrap the story of their chosen song and show the finer details that lie within. Song Exploder is a podcast hosted by the American musician and composer Hrishikesh Hirway.
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