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Lauryn Hill quietly released 'Lose Myself' as part of the 'Surf's Up' motion picture soundtrack - shocking, I know. It's not only one of the best summer tracks you'll add to your catalogue: it's also one of the most honest and heartfelt songs she's has ever written.
Dan Levy
Best
Myself
You
Picture
Lose
Add
Summer
Released
Lauryn Hill
Only
Songs
Catalogue
Part
Written
Know
Most
Hill
Also
She
Tracks
Surf
Motion
Motion Picture
Soundtrack
Up
Shocking
Heartfelt
Quietly
Your
Ever
Honest
'Simply the Best' has always been one of my favourite songs and a song that I've always thought was far deeper than what you imagine it to be at first listen. I found the lyrics to be really, oddly beautiful, considering you rarely stop and think about them.
Dan Levy
Beautiful
Best
You
Song
Thought
First
Think
Lyrics
Considering
Favourite
Rarely
About
Songs
Simply
Always
Been
Oddly
Than
Listen
Stop
Them
Far
Really
Found
Deeper
Imagine
I really don't want my daughters to know me for being that guy who sings songs.
Dan Reynolds
Me
Guy
Daughters
Songs
Know
Sings
Being
Want
Really
Who
It's such an interesting experience seeing how different people react to music and the generosity of some and the craziness of others - people who go see bands in different countries, know all the words to the songs, and get tattoos. It's so unexpected.
Dan Smith
Music
Experience
People
Words
Others
See
Seeing
Some
Songs
Generosity
Countries
Know
React
How
Go
Bands
Get
Unexpected
Tattoos
Different
Different Countries
Interesting
Craziness
Different People
Who
Often, with our music, there's quite a lot going on, so people hear melodies that sound up and catchy, and production, and maybe don't really listen to what the songs are about, so it's nice to sing a song like 'The Currents' and really mean it.
Dan Smith
Music
People
Song
Nice
Our
Melodies
Our Music
About
Songs
Catchy
Like
Sing
Sound
Hear
Lot
Up
Going
Listen
Quite
Often
Maybe
Quite A Lot
Currents
Mean
Really
Production
A lot of our songs are based in reality but imagined or using fictional characters as a way to write about something. I think inspiration comes from anything and everything, and it's filtered through our brains, and it comes out sounding like our band.
Dan Smith
Reality
Band
Think
Filtered
Our
Everything
Way
Out
Characters
About
Something
Inspiration
Through
Write
Songs
Like
Lot
Brains
Anything
Anything And Everything
Fictional
Using
Based
Imagined
There's always room to make stuff that is completely morose and downbeat, but we'd probably spiral into a state of complete despair if our music reflected the lyrics all the time. I think that's almost the fun game with some songs, is this complete tearing of two feelings at once.
Dan Smith
Music
Time
Game
Feelings
Think
Despair
State
Complete
Our
Lyrics
Once
Our Music
Some
Spiral
Songs
Almost
Stuff
Make
Always
Reflected
Room
Fun
Tearing
Two
I was obsessed with harmonies and how to put songs together in lush soundscapes. But I don't know what it was all about, really.
Dan Smith
Together
Harmonies
About
Songs
Put
Obsessed
Know
How
Really
Lush
When we started out in the U.K., there were songs that we made, we put them on the Internet, and we immediately started touring the U.K. We borrowed our friend's mum's car, and drove ourselves around for, like, a year playing gigs in pubs and tiny little venues. In that respect, we're pretty grass roots as a band. We've done all that together.
Dan Smith
Respect
Together
Car
Internet
Made
Year
Band
Grass
Our
Immediately
Ourselves
Out
Gigs
Pretty
Borrowed
Songs
Touring
Put
Drove
Like
Venues
Around
Were
Friend
Done
Tiny
Little
Them
Roots
Grass Roots
Mum
Pubs
Started
Playing
I'm not interested in writing overtly autobiographical songs. I would rather explore interesting stories. I like the idea of the songs being evocative and distinctive, so I have in my mind the atmosphere that a film could evoke. I like to think of them existing in their own little world.
Dan Smith
Writing
World
Mind
Own
Think
Distinctive
Evocative
Evoke
Would
Atmosphere
Rather
Could
Songs
Idea
Like
Existing
Autobiographical
Being
Stories
Not Interested
Interested
Interesting
Little
Them
Interesting Stories
Explore
Film
Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was on constant shuffle throughout my childhood. I remember my dad playing some stellar Max Roach albums as well.
Daniel Breaker
Life
Key
Remember
Constant
Some
Throughout
Stellar
Songs
Roach
Well
Stevie
Wonder
Max
Childhood
Dad
Shuffle
Playing
Albums
Our species uses music and dance to express various feelings: love, joy, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, and friendship. And each one is distinct and widely recognized within cultures. Love songs cause us to move slowly and fluidly, for example, while songs of joy inspire us to dance in a full-body aerobic way.
Daniel Levitin
Love
Friendship
Music
Knowledge
Joy
Inspire
Cause
Dance
Example
Feelings
Love Songs
Our
Way
Distinct
Recognized
Slowly
Various
Songs
For Example
Comfort
Within
Aerobic
Cultures
Move
While
Us
Ceremony
Uses
Each
Express
Each One
Species
Widely
Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.
Daniel Smith
Alone
Family
Together
Song
Guitar
Out
Would
Take
Songs
Share
Wrote
Instrumentation
Lord
Till
Up
Acoustic
Acoustic Guitar
Then
Figure
Now
On 'American Idol,' I felt like one of my challenges was picking songs because I've definitely been exposed to a lot of music. So when I went to pick songs, it was difficult for me to choose, but I'd always go to country because country music is so memorable.
Danny Gokey
Music
Me
Challenges
Country
Difficult
Definitely
Memorable
Pick
Songs
Picking
Country Music
Like
Because
Felt
Always
Idol
Go
Been
Lot
American
American Idol
Choose
Exposed
I'm always going to have the puppets, probably not for the rest of my life, but I'm not going to stop doing ventriloquism anytime soon. I'm just going to add singing, recording songs, and maybe playing in a TV show.
Darci Lynne Farmer
Life
Rest
My Life
Recording
Singing
Add
TV
Puppets
TV Show
Songs
Soon
Ventriloquism
Always
Doing
Going
Maybe
Just
Stop
Anytime
Show
Playing
At the end of the day, I'm a fan of great stories and great songs.
Darius Rucker
Day
Great
End Of The Day
Songs
Great Songs
Great Stories
End
Fan
Stories
If I did a show and didn't do Hootie songs, I would be ripping people off.
Darius Rucker
People
Would
Would-Be
Ripping
Songs
Off
Did
Show
With rock, you can write about anything. There are rock songs I still don't know what they're singing about, but you want to get up and dance.
Darius Rucker
You
Dance
Singing
About
Write
Songs
Know
Rock
Still
Up
Get
Want
Anything
When people come and see me, I want them to experience joy. I don't do any sad songs in my show. It's to lift the spirit.
Darlene Love
Sad
Me
Experience
People
Joy
See
Spirit
Lift
Songs
Sad Songs
Come
Any
Want
Them
Show
A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like on record. If I had total control, I would do a lot of the old songs - not only my songs but Sam Cooke songs, Luther Vandross, melody songs. That's what I would really do if I had an opportunity to do a record.
Darlene Love
You
Opportunity
Old
Control
Old Songs
Melody
Would
Total
Record
Only
Had
Songs
Like
Sound
Lot
Versus
Times
Person
Sam
Sam Cooke
Really
Cooke
Hard
Capture
Luther
If you listen to most songs, most people will not sing the words of the lead singer. They will sing the hook. The hook is what makes the record sell.
Darlene Love
You
People
Words
Will
Hook
Record
Lead
Songs
Lead Singer
Most
Sing
Singer
Makes
Sell
Listen
A lot of times, I don't feel responsible for the songs myself. But that's my job or my place in life: to keep my search and catch the ideas before they pass me by.
Daron Malakian
Life
Myself
Me
Job
Before
Responsible
Songs
Catch
Feel
Ideas
Pass
Lot
Times
Place
Search
Keep
You put too many songs on your record, and it ends up like a family with too many kids: some of them get neglected.
Daron Malakian
Family
You
Too
Neglected
Kids
Record
Some
Songs
Put
Like
Up
Get
Ends
Them
Your
Many
I've always been a spontaneous singer. And all the stuff that you hear on the end of the songs, what they call the ad libs - that just comes out of my head. That's not thought out at all. I have the verses and the choruses, and then after that it's total improvisation.
Daryl Hall
You
Thought
Out
Total
Songs
Head
Stuff
Spontaneous
Singer
Call
Always
Hear
Been
Verses
End
Improvisation
Just
After
Then
Ad
I have been making hip-hop since I was a kid growing up in New York in the '80s and '90s. It's always been a hobby of mine - I've been making beats and writing songs for as long or longer than I've been acting.
Dash Mihok
Writing
Long
Mine
Kid
Songs
Beats
Longer
Since
New
Always
Making
Hip-Hop
Been
Up
Than
York
Hobby
New York
Acting
Growing
Growing Up
I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.
Dave Davies
Me
People
Telling
Write
Songs
Like
Make
Trying
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