4/2/2023 0 Comments Alter ego band chicagoI think my default method is to try and adopt somebody else’s outlook on life so that I don’t get found out. Which is strange, because it’s not what I intended. It’s kinda funny.Ĭalvin Harris: I try not to write funny songs, or things that are ironic, but I think they kind of are. I’ve not done or thought any of those things on the album. TOC: Is there an autobiographical quality to the album?Ĭalvin Harris: It’s all made-up stuff. She does that! I saw a video of her at Wembley Arena- she was up in the sky upside down singing on a trapeze. TOC: Maybe what you do stands out because you weren’t intending for it to be the final product?Ĭalvin Harris: There’s no showboating there’s no sort of Mariah Carey vocal gymnastics or anything like that.Ĭalvin Harris: That’s incredible, like Pink. I guess it’s quite obvious why they would see me as a singer. I was singing on the songs because I couldn’t find anyone else to sing on them. Within months, I was starting a band and being a frontman, trying to learn those skills.Ĭalvin Harris: Far from it. They set about getting me a record deal and they did that with Sony and now they think I’m a artist. So I added this guy, who works for EMI publishing-which was ideal-and he liked it, so that’s how it all started. When I got signed, I was a producer making backing tracks. It was only once I got signed to a record deal that things became a bit confused. TOC: Were you taking that approach as a songwriter?Ĭalvin Harris: I was thinking of myself then as a producer. I was into people that were in the music industry and making them my private showbiz friends, to get me on to people’s records and stuff. It was pretty much on MySpace-trying to meet a guy that wrote a song that I liked by the Sugababes. How were you discovered?Ĭalvin Harris: After many years of sending demo CDs and stuff, I gave up sending demo CDs. TOC: You seem to have come out of nowhere. Hopefully I’ll right the wrongs with the second album. I haven’t had a chance to speak to anyone at great length. The album is not very focused it’s all over the place and people like something that’s concise.… Also, I haven’t been here much. Time Out Chicago: There’s a sense of humor on your record-do you think the album will translate in the U.S.?Ĭalvin Harris: There’s two reasons I don’t think it translates. Could this really be the Calvin Harris? Read on. We figured that when we found Harris-who recently recorded with Kylie Minogue-surely we would be buried in an avalanche of babes, bottles and controlled substances.Instead, we ended up in a swag room in a hotel penthouse chatting with a polite young guy who likes the Sugababes. The Scottish singer’s I Created Disco was our favorite crossover record of 2007-full of pop hooks, party-boy attitude and banging beats on tunes like “Acceptable in the ’80s” and “Colours”-in which the singer advises ladies against a monochrome palette. One of our missions at this year’s Winter Music Conference was to meet Calvin Harris in between the live sets he and his band played in Miami. In 2012, Harris pulled in $42 million dollars as a DJ. Back in 2008, I sat down with Calvin Harris in Miami before taking in a modestly attended live band set.
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