Once I could see what the story was, it seemed like it almost wrote itself and I just caught the song. The guitar was a new instrument to me. I grew up drumming as a kid, with my dad and drumming in bands in New York. Limitations can help songwriting. Especially when it comes to pop music, I think simplicity is gold.
Desireless is actually quite a laidback album and the tempo on most of the songs is pretty low. By the end of making my first album, I had figured out who I really was, musically. The feel of the guitarist rhythm we changed up a bit, but the vision that I had laid down in the demo, the whole acoustic guitar-driven concept, the melody and lyrics were all mainly there from the beginning. I think I might have finished the last verse later. The main thing Adam Kviman the producer gave us is that it was his idea to do the drop-down verse at the end which I think is genius, and then we bring the drums in for the last chorus.
That really gave the song a lot. I guess the concept was to make sure he came back. But that whole thing was something I grew up with and then used to do myself. Then the chorus is really about that feeling of not wanting the night to end. I wish I could fight the break of dawn. But when it comes to getting a massive worldwide hit there are so many other factors — timing is really important and I think we had the right song at the right time.
Radio at that time was quite eclectic in many ways, pop music was so mixed. I had signed to an independent label in Sweden, so we started in Sweden and it was a hit back there, then we went to the UK and signed to Polydor. There was already confidence in the song, which meant they went all the way when it came to pushing all the buttons and throwing a lot of money in there. The song was released in and its biggest breakthrough was to reach no.
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The song peaked at No. Eagle-Eye was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of a painter and a jazz musician the trumpeter Don Cherry. I obviously had dreams of hitting the big time, but I wasn't trying for that at all," he says.
Cherry had wanted a career where he could do good work without the pressures of an industry that would push him into a corner he didn't want to be in. He'd been there already: As a teen, he was accepted to New York City's School of Performing Arts and decided to try to become an actor. He quickly tired of it. Being of color in the States at that time, I started to feel like I needed to do something that could change minds.
So Cherry moved back to Stockholm and started to write music. In less than a year, Cherry went from writing songs in his room to being honked at on the streets of New York, recognized in McDonalds, and playing stadium tours. He lives in Stockholm, isn't recognized at the grocery store, and spends his free time writing songs and "just hanging out.
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