Avicii: True Stories Page #4

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[echoes]

[Avicii]

For her to come to Ultra Music Festival

just kind of shows how far dance music

has come.

- Hi.

- Hi, Im Tim. Nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you, too.

- An honour.

It's a big honour, obviously,

to share the same stage as Madonna.

[cameras clicking]

She's the queen of pop.

- Are you ready? [chuckles]

- I am ready.

This is the first time I'm headlining,

so I'm nervous.

- Your first headline?

- Good?

- Yeah, the first one.

- Cool.

Are you ready for Avicii?

[cheering]

And then, after that,

I-I could afford a tour manager.

We're doing a lobby call

at 2:
00 a.m. in the lobby.

- 2:
30 in the lobby and then...?

- 2:
00 a.m. in the lobby.

[both laugh]

I didn't have to fly coach everywhere

by myself.

The only thing that makes sense is

just making the flying and the travelling

as comfortable as possible.

I was young, I was single, I was partying.

Every show was a big party, you know.

It was really a big party.

It was amazing. I didn't even realise

before that you could actually do Monday,

Tuesday, Thursday, Friday,

Saturday and Sunday, you know?

But then, once that opened up,

like, you could tour a whole year,

and that's kind of what we did.

[upbeat electronic music]

Avicii!

Yes! Yeah.

[announcer] Make some noise for Avicii!

[cheering]

[exclaims]

[crowd chanting] Avicii! Avicii! Avicii!

Avicii! Avicii! Avicii...

[Jesse]

At the time, Tisto was staying with me.

So I walked into my bedroom,

there's, like, cigarette butts

on my counters and beer cans.

I'm, like, shaking off little spit,

like, chew tobacco, the snus bags.

And there was this guy in bed

with these two girls

and I was like:

"You know, who the f*** are these guys?"

I'm like:

"Show 'em the door, get 'em out."

Another month goes by,

I-I walk up with Tisto to the D.J. booth

and I see this guy playing and he looks

over at me and, like, stops DJing

and starts apologising to me,

that was the guy in my bed.

And then since then, we, um,

we just became, you know, best friends.

In my eyes, best friends.

And with somebody like Tim,

he was very innocent and nave

and really genuine.

[Nile] I love Tim.

He is the most natural, melodic

music writer that I've ever met.

Electronic music has gotten to the point

where you don't have to sample it anymore.

You can just make it new.

Do you know what I mean?

- [both] Yeah.

- [Nile] Okay.

Such a different experience

to be a part of the whole process.

I've worked with Tim.

We walk into the studio, we have nothing.

We walk in, it's like:

"Yo, man, what do we do?"

[Nile] You can go like... [playing guitar]

And I play a little idea, and he'll go:

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