Avicii: True Stories Page #5

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"What are the notes in that chord?"

It's... It's adding an octave

along with it,

- so it's not taking away...

- Okay.

This creative process, this ebb and flow,

as we call it, is what we live for.

That's the exciting moment.

I mean, I could play you... I could play

you a bunch of the sh*t I've done so far.

Yeah, let me hear

where you're coming from.

This is one I did with Al.

This is like, I don't know, country folk.

["Wake Me Up" instrumental playing]

This has a lot of, like,

acoustic elements throughout.

Yeah, I like it a lot. It's great.

A mixture of the acoustic element,

then going into, like, kind of blending

- into the electronic vibe.

- Nice, it's cool.

[Mike] It's obvious to nobody that

Tim and I would mesh together like that.

I don't think anybody would have said,

like:
"Oh, you're gonna get,

you know, like,

this guitarist from a rock band

and then this, like,

electronic music producer/D.J. together

and then, like, this cool stuff

is gonna happen."

We're very different musically

but we have a similar philosophy in,

like, sort of putting songs together

and taking elements from different places

and seeing how they can fit together.

He probably got here at about four o'clock

in the afternoon,

and by about like seven or eight o'clock

at night, we had "Wake Me Up". [chuckles]

That was the first thing that we did,

was we wrote "Wake Me Up".

[beats playing]

[Avicii] I think every artist of any kind,

like, the ultimate goal,

is to find your own mark,

something that makes you stand out

from all the rest.

Not afraid to close my eyes

[piano playing]

Or... Yeah, those ones, yeah.

[Aloe vocalising]

Yeah.

Not afraid to close my eyes

I wanna be there

and be a part of writing the vocal.

I wanna make a song from the ground up,

basically.

It's more like you don't expect it.

- That's the one you want?

- Eyes...

[Mike] He's so specific about what

he likes and what he doesn't like.

- All this time I was finding myself...

- When you find somebody like Tim,

who absolutely knows what he wants,

things get done.

Don't jump straight to, like...

All this time, I was finding...

[Aloe] All this time, I was...

All this time

I was finding myself and I...

Yeah, something like that.

I was lost

There you go. I really like it.

Well, we can perfect this,

but I love that.

At like 4:
00 a.m.,

I got an e-mail from him saying:

"It's... It's all together, check it out."

I remember opening it up, listening, and

being like:
"F*** me, this is awesome."

["Wake Me Up" playing]

This is so good.

- This is hot, man.

- Yeah.

[Avicii]

We did so well with the musical side

and everything went so fast

from that point on.

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