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Savan Kotecha

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1011 total appearances

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Behind The Wall
Savan Kotecha: The Songwriting Genius Behind the Hits That Defined a Generation

I think Ilya has like five. 40 or 60 something versions of the pre-course in his computer that I was doing. It was like crazy. And, um, and I showed, we showed Alex what we were doing. I told him like, I did this, I tried this, just this theory. And he goes, what if you try something like that? Something like that. And he walked out of the room. I was like, you motherfucker.

Behind The Wall
Savan Kotecha: The Songwriting Genius Behind the Hits That Defined a Generation

And again, it goes back to the thing of the song is the most important thing, right? You know, whatever we have to do to make that the best thing we do, you know, pull people in, like get help, play it for people, get feedback, like from people you trust, obviously, you know? And, and yeah, and that's,

Behind The Wall
Savan Kotecha: The Songwriting Genius Behind the Hits That Defined a Generation

And again, it goes back to the thing of the song is the most important thing, right? You know, whatever we have to do to make that the best thing we do, you know, pull people in, like get help, play it for people, get feedback, like from people you trust, obviously, you know? And, and yeah, and that's,

Behind The Wall
Savan Kotecha: The Songwriting Genius Behind the Hits That Defined a Generation

And again, it goes back to the thing of the song is the most important thing, right? You know, whatever we have to do to make that the best thing we do, you know, pull people in, like get help, play it for people, get feedback, like from people you trust, obviously, you know? And, and yeah, and that's,

Behind The Wall
Savan Kotecha: The Songwriting Genius Behind the Hits That Defined a Generation

So Richard Joronson took the assignments and he started doing this rough track. And he had a bit of the verse melody. And then we just listened to it and loved it. And then me and Max just started singing melodies on it and jamming on it. Um, and we sort of played it for Ari and she liked what we were doing. And then we, um, and yeah, and I mean, that's, that's what it was.

Behind The Wall
Savan Kotecha: The Songwriting Genius Behind the Hits That Defined a Generation

So Richard Joronson took the assignments and he started doing this rough track. And he had a bit of the verse melody. And then we just listened to it and loved it. And then me and Max just started singing melodies on it and jamming on it. Um, and we sort of played it for Ari and she liked what we were doing. And then we, um, and yeah, and I mean, that's, that's what it was.

Behind The Wall
Savan Kotecha: The Songwriting Genius Behind the Hits That Defined a Generation

So Richard Joronson took the assignments and he started doing this rough track. And he had a bit of the verse melody. And then we just listened to it and loved it. And then me and Max just started singing melodies on it and jamming on it. Um, and we sort of played it for Ari and she liked what we were doing. And then we, um, and yeah, and I mean, that's, that's what it was.

Behind The Wall
Savan Kotecha: The Songwriting Genius Behind the Hits That Defined a Generation

And then we were just, we all were there like jamming a little bit. And, um, after, after a while we just, you know, Max settled in and put it together, like structured it more, um, And it was such an exciting time. Again, we were just on this roll together and Ari was such a muse for great creativity. I really credit her for all of those songs in the sense that she was such a great muse for that.

Behind The Wall
Savan Kotecha: The Songwriting Genius Behind the Hits That Defined a Generation

And then we were just, we all were there like jamming a little bit. And, um, after, after a while we just, you know, Max settled in and put it together, like structured it more, um, And it was such an exciting time. Again, we were just on this roll together and Ari was such a muse for great creativity. I really credit her for all of those songs in the sense that she was such a great muse for that.

Behind The Wall
Savan Kotecha: The Songwriting Genius Behind the Hits That Defined a Generation

And then we were just, we all were there like jamming a little bit. And, um, after, after a while we just, you know, Max settled in and put it together, like structured it more, um, And it was such an exciting time. Again, we were just on this roll together and Ari was such a muse for great creativity. I really credit her for all of those songs in the sense that she was such a great muse for that.

Behind The Wall
Savan Kotecha: The Songwriting Genius Behind the Hits That Defined a Generation

When you have those gifts that she has and we knew we had those gifts at our disposal, Anything felt possible. And the label was, you know, amazing in such great support. And it was just all gears were running and you felt like, oh, it is possible to have a new Lady Marmalade. You know what I mean? Like it is possible to get that labels.

Behind The Wall
Savan Kotecha: The Songwriting Genius Behind the Hits That Defined a Generation

When you have those gifts that she has and we knew we had those gifts at our disposal, Anything felt possible. And the label was, you know, amazing in such great support. And it was just all gears were running and you felt like, oh, it is possible to have a new Lady Marmalade. You know what I mean? Like it is possible to get that labels.

Behind The Wall
Savan Kotecha: The Songwriting Genius Behind the Hits That Defined a Generation

When you have those gifts that she has and we knew we had those gifts at our disposal, Anything felt possible. And the label was, you know, amazing in such great support. And it was just all gears were running and you felt like, oh, it is possible to have a new Lady Marmalade. You know what I mean? Like it is possible to get that labels.

Behind The Wall
Savan Kotecha: The Songwriting Genius Behind the Hits That Defined a Generation

Yeah, we'll get Jessie J on it and we'll get Nicki Minaj on it. And, you know, from where I was coming from, when I was taking scraps, you know, for years and years trying to break, to have that sort of arsenal and confidence from the people around, it was like amazing. Like anything was possible. And the song did what it did. And it's like become this sort of, it's like synced everywhere.

Behind The Wall
Savan Kotecha: The Songwriting Genius Behind the Hits That Defined a Generation

Yeah, we'll get Jessie J on it and we'll get Nicki Minaj on it. And, you know, from where I was coming from, when I was taking scraps, you know, for years and years trying to break, to have that sort of arsenal and confidence from the people around, it was like amazing. Like anything was possible. And the song did what it did. And it's like become this sort of, it's like synced everywhere.

Behind The Wall
Savan Kotecha: The Songwriting Genius Behind the Hits That Defined a Generation

Yeah, we'll get Jessie J on it and we'll get Nicki Minaj on it. And, you know, from where I was coming from, when I was taking scraps, you know, for years and years trying to break, to have that sort of arsenal and confidence from the people around, it was like amazing. Like anything was possible. And the song did what it did. And it's like become this sort of, it's like synced everywhere.

Behind The Wall
Savan Kotecha: The Songwriting Genius Behind the Hits That Defined a Generation

And it's become like this.

Behind The Wall
Savan Kotecha: The Songwriting Genius Behind the Hits That Defined a Generation

And it's become like this.

Behind The Wall
Savan Kotecha: The Songwriting Genius Behind the Hits That Defined a Generation

And it's become like this.

Behind The Wall
Savan Kotecha: The Songwriting Genius Behind the Hits That Defined a Generation

and it yeah just an amazing it was an amazing time i guess that's the you know and it all stemmed from us jamming we were just he played us the track had a bit of it and we started jamming i've got voice notes of all of us in the room sort of jamming singing melodies you can hear ari in the background like that's fun um singing some of it and then you know the bang bang into the room i remember i have the voice note where i started singing that i had no idea what bang bang into the room meant but i just it felt good you know