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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

And we all, you know, the funny thing with Can't Find My Face was that we all thought In The Night was the song. Everyone thought In The Night was the song at the time. Wow. And... And it wasn't until some weeks before release that it was swapped. I guess I got a call from Charlie Walker, who was the promo guy at Republic at the time. He said, bro, I just spoke to Abel.

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

And we all, you know, the funny thing with Can't Find My Face was that we all thought In The Night was the song. Everyone thought In The Night was the song at the time. Wow. And... And it wasn't until some weeks before release that it was swapped. I guess I got a call from Charlie Walker, who was the promo guy at Republic at the time. He said, bro, I just spoke to Abel.

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

It's going to be in the night. I said, it's going to be Can't Feel My Face. I was like, really? Because at the time, that's what we just all thought in the night was the song. But it was amazing to... Again, I'm, like, such a pop guy. So I wasn't, like, hip to, like, the weekend and the culture he was building until we started working with him.

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

It's going to be in the night. I said, it's going to be Can't Feel My Face. I was like, really? Because at the time, that's what we just all thought in the night was the song. But it was amazing to... Again, I'm, like, such a pop guy. So I wasn't, like, hip to, like, the weekend and the culture he was building until we started working with him.

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

It's going to be in the night. I said, it's going to be Can't Feel My Face. I was like, really? Because at the time, that's what we just all thought in the night was the song. But it was amazing to... Again, I'm, like, such a pop guy. So I wasn't, like, hip to, like, the weekend and the culture he was building until we started working with him.

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

We saw one of his shows at the Hollywood Bowl and we're like, oh, shit. You know, this guy... is not only a visionary, but he's brave as fuck because he could have continued doing what he was doing. And, you know, and then I earned it popped. So we started having commercial hits. He did not need us, you know? Um,

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

We saw one of his shows at the Hollywood Bowl and we're like, oh, shit. You know, this guy... is not only a visionary, but he's brave as fuck because he could have continued doing what he was doing. And, you know, and then I earned it popped. So we started having commercial hits. He did not need us, you know? Um,

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

We saw one of his shows at the Hollywood Bowl and we're like, oh, shit. You know, this guy... is not only a visionary, but he's brave as fuck because he could have continued doing what he was doing. And, you know, and then I earned it popped. So we started having commercial hits. He did not need us, you know? Um,

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

But to be brave enough to go, okay, I'm going to try this new way of doing something and working when you already had this massive success, that's a pretty brave thing for an artist to do, I think. And I think all the great ones are brave like that.

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

But to be brave enough to go, okay, I'm going to try this new way of doing something and working when you already had this massive success, that's a pretty brave thing for an artist to do, I think. And I think all the great ones are brave like that.

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

But to be brave enough to go, okay, I'm going to try this new way of doing something and working when you already had this massive success, that's a pretty brave thing for an artist to do, I think. And I think all the great ones are brave like that.

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

I think all the great ones, there's this great David Bowie quote where he says, an artist should live in the place where you, when you're walking into the beach, like, you know, if you're on the... on the sand and you walk into the water and you keep walking and you keep walking and the water rises as rises and rises.

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

I think all the great ones, there's this great David Bowie quote where he says, an artist should live in the place where you, when you're walking into the beach, like, you know, if you're on the... on the sand and you walk into the water and you keep walking and you keep walking and the water rises as rises and rises.

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

I think all the great ones, there's this great David Bowie quote where he says, an artist should live in the place where you, when you're walking into the beach, like, you know, if you're on the... on the sand and you walk into the water and you keep walking and you keep walking and the water rises as rises and rises.

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

And then it gets to the point where the water is like right above your upper lip and you kind of have to lift your head up and it's sort of this uncomfortable feeling. Have you ever felt that? That's where an artist should live. And it's like such a great way of putting it because that's what Abel does. It seems all the time.

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

And then it gets to the point where the water is like right above your upper lip and you kind of have to lift your head up and it's sort of this uncomfortable feeling. Have you ever felt that? That's where an artist should live. And it's like such a great way of putting it because that's what Abel does. It seems all the time.

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

And then it gets to the point where the water is like right above your upper lip and you kind of have to lift your head up and it's sort of this uncomfortable feeling. Have you ever felt that? That's where an artist should live. And it's like such a great way of putting it because that's what Abel does. It seems all the time.

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

Like he just pushes and he was a visionary and, and it was funny for me and the rest of the guys, cause we were never like the cool people. Like we did the pop stuff, not like the cool stuff. You know, we did the songs that the labels forced their artists to do. You know what I mean? They would work, but it would be the late, it wasn't like the stuff the artists wanted to do.

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

Like he just pushes and he was a visionary and, and it was funny for me and the rest of the guys, cause we were never like the cool people. Like we did the pop stuff, not like the cool stuff. You know, we did the songs that the labels forced their artists to do. You know what I mean? They would work, but it would be the late, it wasn't like the stuff the artists wanted to do.

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

Like he just pushes and he was a visionary and, and it was funny for me and the rest of the guys, cause we were never like the cool people. Like we did the pop stuff, not like the cool stuff. You know, we did the songs that the labels forced their artists to do. You know what I mean? They would work, but it would be the late, it wasn't like the stuff the artists wanted to do.