Will.i.am has revealed Black Eyed Peas hit ‘I Gotta Feeling’ is impressed by U2.
will.i.am revealed I Gotta Feeling’s connection to U2
The 2009 earworm began life as a beat DJ David Guetta despatched will, who was engaged on Bono and co’s album ‘Line On The Horizon’ on the time. and was penned as a response to the Irish rockers’ 2000 traditional ‘Lovely Day’.
Talking to Nile Rodgers for Apple Music 1’s ‘Deep Hidden Which means’, he recalled: “David Guetta had this tune referred to as ‘Love is Gone’ … So he sends me the remix to ‘Love is Gone’ and that’s the beat to ‘I Gotta Feeling’. I approached it like, ‘Okay, if I might strategy the refrain what would Earth, Wind and Hearth do? What would U2 do? What would Speaking Heads do all on the identical time? The refrain is like an Earth, Wind and Hearth kind of vibe, it is very Maurice White. Then the ‘Woo-hoo’ may be very Bono, U2. As a matter of reality, I wrote the refrain for U2 as a result of on the time I used to be engaged on [U2’s 2009 album] ‘No Line On The Horizon’ at Olympic Studios within the UK. On the time ‘Lovely Day’ was like, ‘Oh man, if they’ve one other tune like ‘Lovely Day’ that’d be superior.’ And so I did “I gotta feeling that tonight’s going to be a great night time” as a response to that, wrote it from the attitude of Maurice White after which the Speaking Heads’ ‘Psycho Killer’. And in order that ‘Psycho Killer qu’est-ce que c’est?’ Let me borrow that. Let me use that math.”
The ‘The place is the Love?’ hitmaker additionally recalled Usher’s workforce getting in contact to pen him an “worldwide hit” – which ended up being 2010’s membership banger ‘OMG’.
He relayed: “I get a name from Usher’s A and R, Mark Pitts, and he is like, ‘Yo, Will, I want a success. I want a success for Usher.’ I am like, ‘What kind of hit? I imply, that is so imprecise.’ He is like, ‘Worldwide hit.’ I am like, ‘What kind of worldwide, although? Like London, Paris or in every single place?’ He was like, ‘Yo, simply give me that worldwide, what you are calling worldwide.’ I’ll take the ‘Increase Increase Pow’ drums, however do four-to-the-floor. Then studying from [band] Violent Femmes the place you are singing the bassline, that is going to be my verse.”
Tune in to listen to the interview in full this Saturday tenth August at 2pm BST at apple.co/_DHMRadio.
