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Troye Sivan shares how a flirtatious exchange led the way as inspiration for “One of Your Girls.” Keep watching to see how he got Ross Lynch to be in the video and more! Troye Sivan:Hey, it’s Troye Sivan, and this is how it went down for my song “One of Your Girls.” So weirdly, one […]
JOP from Fuerza Regida shares how he and the band created the catchy, Jersey club vibe for “Secreto Victoria.” Let us know what you think of their new song in the comments! JOP:Hey, what’s up? This is JOP and this is how it went down with my song “Secreto Victoria.” We were in Ciudad de […]
Cash Cobain shares how “Fisherrr (Remix)” came to life with a heavy emphasis on emulating a New York vibe with Ice Spice & Boy Swag. Keep watching for how it all went down! Cash Cobain: Yo. What’s up? This is Cash Cobain, and here’s how it went down, “Fisherrr (Remix)” with Ice Spice and Bay […]
Bobby Shmurda & Loud Luxury sit down and share how “Cool Like That” was created, the ’90s rap vibe they were going for and more!
Joe De Pace:
What’s up, everybody? We’re Loud Luxury.
Bobby Shmurda:
This is Bobby Shmurda.
Andrew Fedyk:
And this is how it went down with our new song “Cool Like That.”
Joe De Pace:
We had some demos lying around, and one of them in particular really stuck when we were in the studio, because we were getting Bobby to freestyle on a bunch of stuff just to see and like, vibe it out. I could just feel one of the demos. And I was like, “This is the one, we gotta work on this one.” I was like, “Bobby, hop on this one.” And then he just, like, immediately, like, it came to him, like, on the spot.
Bobby Shmurda:
I’m not gonna lie to you, everything that was playing, I was jumping around to like, everything they said, this the one I said, “Let’s go.” But everything they was playing I was just jumping around, like d*mn they got so much f***ing fire in here.
So we got his recordings, and we literally just took four bars of it and just looped it over and over again and turned it into a song. And then we just told him, “I think your voice was strained by the end of it, we’re just, like, shout it louder and louder,” like we were kind of trying to do, like, a Mo Mamba thing to it, where we’re just trying to let out a scream.
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Nelly Furtado shares how she thought up and executed her fiery, hot girl track “Maneater.” Nelly Furtado: Hi, I’m Nelly Furtado, and this is how it went down with my song “Maneater.” It was a story that started in Miami, Florida, hot summer night, mid-July. I think it was our first night in the studio […]
Khalid’s latest album, Sincere, has a hot track called “Heatstroke.” See how he was inspired to write the fiery track, from songwriting to the music video! Khalid:Hey, what’s up? It’s Khalid here, and this is how it went down with my song “Heatstroke.” “Heatstroke,” to me, is a risk for me to take. I love […]
In today’s episode of ‘How It Went Down,’ Rita Ora shares how she collaborated with RAYE on “Ask & You Shall Receive,” her movie inspiration for the music video and more! Rita Ora: What’s up, I’m Rita Ora, and this is How It Went Down for “Ask & You Shall Receive.” I got the demo […]
In today’s episode of ‘How It Went Down,’ Craig David reveals what inspired him to create “7 Days,” the core theme of the song, how he was able to collaborate with Mark Hill to create something magical and more! David Craig: Hi, I’m Craig David and this is How It Went Down with my song […]
In today’s episode of “How It Went Down,” Rapsody shares why she decided to name her new song “3 AM,” how she filmed the live performance music video with Erykah Badu and more! RapsodyI’m Rapsody and this is how it went down with my new single “3 AM.” RapsodyGetting to the final lyrical version of […]
Jess Glynne shares the story of how she wrote and recorded the song “Hold My Hand” with Jack from Clean Bandit on Billboard‘s How It Went Down. She shares the spontaneity of the song’s lyrics coming together, how it’s remained relevant four years after its release and more!
Jess Glynne:Hey, I’m Jess Glynne, and this is How It Went Down from my song “Hold My Hand.”“Hold My Hand,” I wrote in probably the end of 2014. I’ll never forget that day, actually. I was with my friend Din Din, and we were in the car driving to Kilburn in London, to go to the studio to meet Jack from Clean Bandit who I had “Rather Be” with.
I don’t know, like how it came about, but “darlin’ hold my hand” came up in the car. We were talking about what we wanted to say, I think, in the song or what we were kind of going into the session with. I think we were just having a real, like, friendship moment in the car. And by the time we got to the studio, we kind of had, like, an idea of what we wanted to say. And that was like, when you’re feeling kind of like the outcast in a room, there’s one person that you know, has always got you.
It was kind of crazy. The song came together so quickly, we kind of gave him that idea and what have you, and he just sat at the piano in the corner of the room. We were sat on this little sofa and he just started playing. Dun dun dun, dun dun dun and everything just went like that. As they say, the rest genuinely was history. It was just like the song just fell out of our kind of mouth, I guess. The lyrics were there, the message was there. And it was like a moment where we left that session knowing that we just done something really special.
And it still took a while to actually finish the record, like, after we’ve kind of started it because we went back in again to add to the chorus because it’s like we heard the heard the song, like, maybe a week or two in, and it was like something was missing. And then we kind of invited someone else in with fresh ears because sometimes it really jars you when you listen to a song loads of time.Watch the full video above!