Avicii: True Stories Page #3

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["Levels" playing on stereo]

[Avicii laughing]

It had the right energy,

the right uplifting melody,

um, that... that we were looking for.

All of a sudden, it just made sense

for that vocal to be there.

[Avicii] That's kind of when things

really started kind of taking off.

Seeing that people come to your show

to hear your songs,

like, when they knew the songs.

And I remember the first time

I ever heard that

was when I played Governors Island

in New York.

[announcer] Give it up for Avicii!

[cheering]

And I remember that they were singing

along to every single one of my songs.

["Drowning - Avicii Remix" playing,

crowd singing]

I was just blown away

'cause this, like, never happened before.

And "Levels" just started spreading.

["Levels" playing]

[chanting to song]

[crowd cheering and whistling]

[chanting] Avicii! Avicii!

[laughs]

[laughing]

Eventually, you know, uh,

it was discussion with Ash,

who has... has been my main challenge

when it comes to discussing the deals

for "Levels" and Avicii.

I'll send you the big, you know,

the big rough outline of

whatever it is I'm looking for

and what I have on the table,

and then we can take it from there.

[Per] There is no person like Ash.

His obsessiveness of taking Tim

to the next level,

or to three, four, five levels up.

Uh, I think he will continue to be

very successful

because he is obsessed

of having success.

I'm not sending...

I'm not sending the vocal to anyone.

[exhales heavily]

[man laughing]

"Just tell him we will match EMI's offer."

[man exclaims]

Every day I'm hustling!

- F*** you!

- [man laughs]

And but the... the impact of the song,

as just an instrumental song,

was so huge at the club scenes,

at YouTube.

So we just felt this is gonna be huge.

- Hey, it's Ash.

- [man] Hello.

Advance has been put in at 500,000 euros.

Um...

Okay, thank you very much, everyone.

And, uh, speak on e-mail.

- Listen, thank you.

- Thank you, bye.

- Bye-bye.

- Thank you. Goodbye.

["Hustlin'" by Rick Ross playing]

I'm the f***in' boss.

He is a... He is a warm family man,

hardworking,

and, um, I mean, uh,

I call him a friend, yeah.

[Avicii]

Like, everything has gone in steps.

With "Levels", everything just kind of,

[imitates rocket] really took off.

We got these opportunities that

we'd never been presented with before.

Like, headlining Ultra was one of

the first dreams that really come true.

[helicopter whirring]

[dramatic string music]

Avicii is the headliner on the main stage.

He's coming up right now,

and, as you can see, there's a lot of hype

around him. There he is!

[people exclaiming]

[man] Tim, Tim!

[siren blaring]

There is a major surprise appearance...

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