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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

It felt like chaos, but it was genius in this chaos of this sort of sonic landscape. We had to cut and, you know, paste parts of it. And he's, you know, he's just so, he was so good at that stuff. He is. yeah, we just crafted this song. Like it took a long time to craft Cool for the Summer, by the way, because it's a very different structure. It was the same.

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

It felt like chaos, but it was genius in this chaos of this sort of sonic landscape. We had to cut and, you know, paste parts of it. And he's, you know, he's just so, he was so good at that stuff. He is. yeah, we just crafted this song. Like it took a long time to craft Cool for the Summer, by the way, because it's a very different structure. It was the same.

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

One of those things where the song is most important that we had like bits of it. Tell me what you want, think you love it, okay. I've got that on my computer as well. The, the actually all the voice memos of writing cool for summer and the different versions and stuff.

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

One of those things where the song is most important that we had like bits of it. Tell me what you want, think you love it, okay. I've got that on my computer as well. The, the actually all the voice memos of writing cool for summer and the different versions and stuff.

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

One of those things where the song is most important that we had like bits of it. Tell me what you want, think you love it, okay. I've got that on my computer as well. The, the actually all the voice memos of writing cool for summer and the different versions and stuff.

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

Yeah. That time I did would use garage band as my dictaphone. So I've got a lot of stuff on old garage band. Cause then you could save track by track. So that's what I did. And there's, there's a bunch of cool for the summer stuff. And, Sat with Demi for a bit, cracking it.

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

Yeah. That time I did would use garage band as my dictaphone. So I've got a lot of stuff on old garage band. Cause then you could save track by track. So that's what I did. And there's, there's a bunch of cool for the summer stuff. And, Sat with Demi for a bit, cracking it.

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

Yeah. That time I did would use garage band as my dictaphone. So I've got a lot of stuff on old garage band. Cause then you could save track by track. So that's what I did. And there's, there's a bunch of cool for the summer stuff. And, Sat with Demi for a bit, cracking it.

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

Then Alexander Crinlin, same guy who seemed to be at that time my problem solver, you know, came in, why don't you sing that riff? You know, cool for the summer, wait for the mother, you know. And it's a very different structure. It was a hard song to crack. Because, you know, as you know, you have the pre and then you have an instrumental before the chorus comes in, right?

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

Then Alexander Crinlin, same guy who seemed to be at that time my problem solver, you know, came in, why don't you sing that riff? You know, cool for the summer, wait for the mother, you know. And it's a very different structure. It was a hard song to crack. Because, you know, as you know, you have the pre and then you have an instrumental before the chorus comes in, right?

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

Then Alexander Crinlin, same guy who seemed to be at that time my problem solver, you know, came in, why don't you sing that riff? You know, cool for the summer, wait for the mother, you know. And it's a very different structure. It was a hard song to crack. Because, you know, as you know, you have the pre and then you have an instrumental before the chorus comes in, right?

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

And that was like weird to everyone, but we managed to make it work. And it was a team, that was such a team effort, that song. Amazing. And she killed it. I mean, Demi's, again, what a talent. So underrated as a talent. Vocalist, as a writer. I mean, she's, I think she's incredible.

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

And that was like weird to everyone, but we managed to make it work. And it was a team, that was such a team effort, that song. Amazing. And she killed it. I mean, Demi's, again, what a talent. So underrated as a talent. Vocalist, as a writer. I mean, she's, I think she's incredible.

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

And that was like weird to everyone, but we managed to make it work. And it was a team, that was such a team effort, that song. Amazing. And she killed it. I mean, Demi's, again, what a talent. So underrated as a talent. Vocalist, as a writer. I mean, she's, I think she's incredible.

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

So funny enough, again, credit to that song is Ali Piyami and Ilya. Yeah. They actually had that pretty, I mean, they had that pretty much there. And I just filled in blanks, wrote lyrics, you know. Both of them, me and Max went to go see a screenings or like scenes of Fifty Shades of Grey. We're told this hype movie is going to come out and they wanted songs from us.

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

So funny enough, again, credit to that song is Ali Piyami and Ilya. Yeah. They actually had that pretty, I mean, they had that pretty much there. And I just filled in blanks, wrote lyrics, you know. Both of them, me and Max went to go see a screenings or like scenes of Fifty Shades of Grey. We're told this hype movie is going to come out and they wanted songs from us.

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

So funny enough, again, credit to that song is Ali Piyami and Ilya. Yeah. They actually had that pretty, I mean, they had that pretty much there. And I just filled in blanks, wrote lyrics, you know. Both of them, me and Max went to go see a screenings or like scenes of Fifty Shades of Grey. We're told this hype movie is going to come out and they wanted songs from us.

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

And so we went and we saw those scenes and the helicopter scene where the song happens.

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

And so we went and we saw those scenes and the helicopter scene where the song happens.

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

And so we went and we saw those scenes and the helicopter scene where the song happens.