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One of the first songs that I did was "Origin",but...
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in the same session, on that 2-day session, I wrote another song called "Underwater".
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It was inspired by many things.
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It was inspired by Elton John piano parts.
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Because Nick Littlemore was talking a lot about Elton John at that time,
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because he had been writing a record with him.
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The "Pnau v.s. Elton John" album.
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And he was just working on that
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the same time as writing some songs, so they were with Elton John.
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So I was like, you know, "You going on all the time about Elton."
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And he kind of was pissing me off, quite a lot.
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I didn't...
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I didn't really want Nick Littlemore to be talking about Elton John all the time.
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It's not...It's not...you know that...
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...creative, in terms of it.
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Just made me jealous.
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And...
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So I sat down. I was like, you know,
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"what if I play something a little bit like that." So I just started playing this riff.
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And the riff that I played was this.
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And that was the riff that I started playing, and...
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with nice little changes in the pre and then into the chorus.
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And then, I was like, you know, what if...
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you know, Nick started actually saying some words on top.
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And Nick was actually doing something like this.
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And it's typical kind of like slightly...
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...jagged-headed way. And...
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I was like, actually that's really cool, cause we're going with the rhythm.
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We're going across the rhythm.
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So I thought why not do that, so...
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And it just felt right,
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so I started writing this thing.
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And it happened again quite quickly.
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And I kept on saying to everyone,
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Look, I want this song to feel like
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that Michel Gondry Levi's commercial that I remember when I was teenager.
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Had that underwater love, "Could this be underwater love?"
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It was the song that was driven to number one
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around the world, simply by the strength of the ad.
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Some sailor falls off his shipping boat
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and gets kind of rescued by a bunch of...topless mermaids
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who start making out with him and undressing him, and then
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it's kind of to be continued, but you don't see the rest of it.
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And...
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I would say it would be great to have a pop song inspired by that.
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(When I fall to my feet)
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(wearing my heart on my sleeve)
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(All I see just don't make sense)
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(You are the port of my call)
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(You shot and leaving me raw)
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(Now I know you're amazing)
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(Cause all I need) And we're back into the pre.
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(Is the love you breathe)
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(Put your lips on me, and I can live)
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(underwater, underwater)
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(Underwater)
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Then we're just beating it.
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So it's a ballad, but it still makes you move.
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(Underwater, underwater)
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(I can live underwater)
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(With your love I can breathe)
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(I can breathe underwater)
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And then it spills.