Name: What Is ‘Dance Monkey’ and How Did It Take Over the World? | Diary of a Song
Uploaded: 2020-04-04T05:21:23.000Z
Duration: 8 min 25 s
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I can't even believe that this is my life sometimes.

It's going number one in so many countries.

“For anyone that thinks that I'm, like, an overnight success

just doesn't know about, like, the hard yards

I used to work at a surf shop on Bourke Street,

which is really the busiest part of Melbourne.

And there was like, you could busk on Bourke Street.

I couldn't even play an instrument at this point.

One of my friends was like, you should come to Byron

because you can literally just park up and busk out

“What was your impression of Byron Bay when you first

“I said, 'I don't think I'm going to fit in here.'

There's a lot of buskers in Byron, but very acoustic guitar.

the synthesizers, and the loop pedal and the harmonizers.”

“I stumbled across her when she was busking

It was the very first time she'd tried busking.

and I said to my wife like, 'Whoa. That was pretty cool.'”

“He gave me his card — said 'entertainment lawyer' on it.

And I said to him, 'I don't have any legal issues.'”

She came in, and lived with me and my family

for a while after there, and worked out of my studio

a lot in that first year while she was busking.”

and stay there, write music, go busk for the week.

in the winter, when no one else would busk.

In the rain, when no one else would be busking,

that would otherwise never know who I was.”

“When did it hit you that your busking was becoming a thing,

I realized if I posted on my social media, and said

I was busking somewhere people would come.

Other buskers started getting angry at me.

And were, like, we're going to run Tones out

They just hated how big the crowds were getting.”

By the second song there were always like 10, 20 people.

the crowd was hectic every single time.”

There's so many good, amazing people on the street.

But there was one night that was very frustrating.

and be like, 'You know you stopped me dead in my tracks

'Just sing one more song, just one more song.'

I'm literally just repeating what people tell me.

That's why if you replace 'dance' with the word 'sing,'

I always wanted to do a song with a bass drop chorus.

'You just want attention. You don't want my heart.'

“Just watching her busk with it, early on,

And we're like, this is going to be a cracker.

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