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Playing With Fire
When I went to the USA last year to write this album, "Playing With Fire" was the first song that I wrote. It was also the first song I wrote together with Jim Beanz, who has written and produced songs to, among others, Nelly Furtado, Justin Timberlake and Timbaland. And it’s fun that the first song we wrote became the first single in the end. I think that you may be expecting a traditional chorus when you listen to the song, because the verse and the bridge seem to lead to that kind of a chorus. But that’s what I think is so great about that song, that we wrote a whole different type of chorus.
Before I Pass Out (feat. Lil Jon)
When we wrote "Before I Pass Out", we started writing the song in a completely different way than I had written before. We did the song melody first of all, and then we found the chords and created the beat. I felt that I wanted a feature that could lift the song even more, and for me it was obvious that Lil John was going to be in the song. Because if there is someone that can make you dance and let loose - it’s him. Like in his featuring in Usher’s "Yeah", LMFAO’s "Shots". So I sent him the song, and he liked it and put on a really nice rap.
Surrender
When I was in the US I worked with many different songwriters across the country. One of them was Sacha Skarbek, who I worked with in LA. He has worked with Adele and Lana Del Rey, among others. Actually we wrote "Surrender" on the same piano that Adele used while writing "Someone Like You". Sacha said there was something magical about that piano, and he was right. It turned out to be a great song. I finished the lyrics in Stockholm, together with Adam Baptiste, whom wrote one of my first songs - The Anthem. The lyrics of "Surrender" are about a story that started out during my childhood up until now. But it wasn’t clear that the song was going to be in the album, although we luckily had time to meet up at Sacha’s studio and record the vocals and finish the song before christmas.
What It's Like
"What It's Like" is one of the songs on the album that I've written together with Jim Beanz. The song is about how it can be like when you're in love with the wrong person. You know about it, but what you're feeling is too strong to resist. The thing that I like with Jim Beanz's productions is that he doesn't need to use so many layers of sound and strings in the songs, he still makes it sound big. And just like me, he was very picky when it came to vocals, which I thought felt good. The musical parts were essential, so we focused a lot on finding nice musical parts.
F Your Love
Jim Beanz and I weren’t meant to write "F Your Love" in the beginning, cause we had just finished writing the last song. It was around 10 PM in Philadelphia, and I was so damn tired because I was jetlagged. The day after I was going to New York, and later fly to LA, so it was mine and Ji***ast studio session. But I decided that we were gonna write one last songs together. I wanted to get out as much as possible of the time we had left, so I stayed awake. At 5 o’clock in the morning we had finished and recorded the whole song. I'm glad that we wrote that song, it's definitely one of my favorites on the album. When we wrote the lyrics we joked about that it was the answer to Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together".
2013年01月31日 04点01分
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level 14
Check You Out
"Check You Out" is a song with very telling and funny lyrics. I wrote the lyrics together with J Angel, who has written many hip hop lyrics before. One song he has written is "Blame It On the Alcohol". And David Gamson who is the writer of Kelly Clarkson's song "Stronger" has produced the track. The song is about that you go and talk to a very good looking girl, trying to flirt with her. But you fail big time and says the wrong things. We tried to find the worst pick-up lines and I liked "I hope that you know CPR, cause girl you take my breath away". I thought it was pretty funny. It’s probably one of the most pop songs on the album.
Give Me Tonight
"Give Me Tonight" was made when I and the Danish producing team DeeKay were playing around in the studio and played old classic club songs. One of them was Capella - "Move On Baby", that we at last decided to sample. I felt that it had potential to be very good together with my own lyrics and melody. The result became a mixture of ’94 and 2013. Then we just had to get in touch with all of the songwriters and producers so that we could clear the rights. There were a bunch of people who had been in the making of the song, so it took more time than we thought to get in touch with them. We didn’t know if we we’re gonna succeed in time, but thanks to my publishing company everything turned out well and the songwriters liked the song too.
Same Old Song
We were going to start with a new song in the studio, and Jim Beanz, whom I wrote "Same Old Song" with, started looking for nice sounds and strings on one of the synths. He changed sound pretty fast, but I liked one of the sounds he was playing, and asked him to go back to that. That sound is what is heard on the string, and goes through almost the whole song. When we had the string, it didn't take long for us to come up with good melodies to the song. "Same Old Song" is also one of my favorites on the album. I was pretty down when I wrote the lyrics, and had a flashback to the time that the song is about, which is heard quite clearly.
That Love
When I was in LA I got the chance to work with The Jackie Boyz, who are two brothers and two really great songwriters. They've written to Madonna, among others. We had much fun while writing together, which often leads to good music, and That Love became good as well. After I had recorded the first verse and got out of the song booth, I noticed that Steven, one of the brothers, was impressed. He showed me his Twitter on the phone, where he had written: Wowzer, Darin is my favorite singer! The truth, hands down! It was really great to hear, especially from him, who has recorded with great singers, like Chris Brown and Justin Bieber.
Nobody Knows
Nobody Knows is actually the first single from the album, but firstly it was meant to be on an EP, that I decided not to release. The other songs were good, but they didn’t fit me as well in style and singing. I would never be able to release music that doesn’t feel 100% me. So I trashed the EP and started from scratch. I’ve never released a song that have had a longer life than Nobody Knows, that’s been in the top 10 on iTunes during 3 different times during 2012. But on the other hand it was good that it lived so long because the finishing of the album took long. The funny thing is that I didn't like the song when we had written and recorded it. It was a song that grew, and after that we had changed it a few times it felt like an obvious first single.
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Savi Peragine at 9:09 PM
感谢外粉的翻译~~
2013年01月31日 04点01分
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level 13
一点都不私人啊~~~他不是说这专辑包含了私人情感么?
2013年01月31日 05点01分
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level 9
丽姐辛苦了!好棒的背景知识补充!爱上F your love了!哈哈
2013年01月31日 12点01分
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level 14
Check You Out
"Check You Out"的歌词很有情节很有趣,我跟J Angel一起写的歌词,他之前给很多个填过词。他写过"Blame It On the Alcohol"的词,David Gamson(制作了Kelly Clarkson的"Stronger")是这首歌的制作人。这歌是关于你走过去跟一个很漂亮的女生搭讪,试着跟他调情。但是你大失误的说了不该说的话。我们试图找出最烂的搭讪词,我个人推荐这句 "I hope that you know CPR, cause girl you take my breath away"。我觉得这句话太搞笑了。这是这张专里面最pop风格的歌
Give Me Tonight
要写"Give Me Tonight"的时候,我跟丹麦的团队DeeKay在录音室里瞎闹,放了一些经典的夜店舞曲,其中一首是Capella的"Move On Baby",我们借鉴了这首歌。我感觉这个模板加上我自己的旋律和歌词,这歌出来会很不错。于是这歌就是94年和13年夜店舞曲的混合体。我们询问了很多创作人和制作人,来决定
正确的
方向。这首歌很多人都参与了制作,所以花在和他们保持联系上的时间比我们想象的要久。我们也不知道能不能按时完成这首歌,感谢公司的努力,我们按时完成了这首歌,创作人也很喜欢最终的成品。
Same Old Song
我们在录音室准备开始写新的歌了,然后Jim Beanz,跟我一起写了"Same Old Song"的,开始在合成器上尝试各种声音和旋律。他快速切换着各种声音,我听到一个很喜欢的,让他重新弹一下。这就是我们听到的贯穿整首歌的和旋。当我们有了和旋之后,我们快速的完成了旋律部分的创作。"Same Old Song"也是我这张专辑里最喜欢的歌之一。写这个词的时候,我听沮丧的,闪回了歌里写的那些事,这些你都能在歌里听出来。
That Love
我在洛杉矶的时候,有幸跟The Jackie Boyz合作,他们兄弟两个都是很棒的创作人。他们给麦当娜写过歌。我们一起创作的时候一直都很开心,有好心情就有好歌的诞生,比如这首"That Love"。当我录完第一段歌,走出录音室,我发现兄弟之一的Steven被震撼到了。他给我看他的手机,屏幕上显示着他在推特上发了这么一段话:太神奇了,Darin是我最喜欢的歌手!是真的,膜拜下!听到这评价我太高兴了,特别是来自于他,他还帮Chris Brown、Justin Bieber录音呢
Nobody Knows
"Nobody Knows"才是这张专的首单,但是最初它是为EP发行做准备的,但是我最后决定不发那个EP了。EP里的其他歌还不错啦,但是它们不适合我的风格跟唱法。我没法发行一张不是百分之百自我的专辑。所以我放弃了这张EP,重新开始做专辑。"Nobody Knows"大概是我发行的这么多歌里面生命力最强的一首,它在2012年里在不同的时期三度登顶水果店单曲榜。但另一方面我很感激它像打不死的小强一样,能在榜单上坚持这么久,因为新专辑的制作要花时间。有趣的是,我们刚开始写这歌录这歌的时候,我不是很喜欢它。这歌在不断的修改中成长,最终成为了首单。
2013年01月31日 12点01分
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啊....好可惜啊,我明明感觉nobody knows那种风格很适合你的啊....明明最爱你的就是那首了
2013年03月01日 17点03分
level 14
有些专业术语不晓得翻的对不对
所以举例说明吧
【I wait I turn
Things are heating up
But I keep looking at her
I see your curves
We don’t need no water
We can just let it burn】
verse 主歌
【Is it me or is it getting hot in here
You keep touching on me
But I don’t care
This ain’t where you want me
I want you yeah
You’ll see tonight
We’ll leave tonight
You’ll fall tonight
Yeah I can feel it heating up】
bridge 过渡
【You keep playing with fire
You keep playing with fire
You keep playing with fire
You keep playing with fire
You keep playing with fire
You keep playing with fire
You keep playing with fire
You keep playing with fire】
chorus 副歌
melody 旋律
string 和弦
vocal 声音、声线、嗓音
如果翻的不对的话 请及时指正 我对这方面也不是太了解
2013年01月31日 12点01分
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过度不是叫Pre么。。。Bridge是指第二段高潮后的那个连接最后一段高潮的很特别的那一段么
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。。。我是这么理解的
2013年01月31日 14点01分
回复 玉水☆雪莲★ :哦 对的 我举例那个叫pre-chorus
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不是bridge
2013年01月31日 15点01分
level 13
"Surrender"的歌词是关于一个我小时候到现在的故事。我不是很确定要把这首歌收录在这张专辑里。该不会他暗恋一个女孩这么多年了吧?那女孩瞎了吗怎么不跟他呢?还是写的是身边朋友的故事?
2013年02月07日 03点02分
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level 7
F your love 中的"F" 到底是什么意思?
2013年02月25日 04点02分
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对Taylor Swift的"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"这歌的回应,应该是"For"的意思吧
2013年03月09日 00点03分
回复 serenityye :写错了~应该是生理运动~F***~
2013年04月09日 16点04分
level 1
为什么我高中同学还有几个喜欢darin的,到了大学就好像没哪个听过他的歌!!!
2013年03月13日 10点03分
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