![]() ![]() “Closer” promoted The Chainsmokers from pop-EDM hitmakers to bonafide superstars, headlining arenas around the world and leading to more high-profile collaborations: Coldplay, 5 Seconds of Summer and Bebe Rexha. “We weren’t trying to write a hit at all, we just wanted to tell some stories,” he says. Frank, acknowledging the cliché, says he had no clue the song would explode in such a way. “Everyone can relate to that, the idea of going back to college for one night, hooking up with an old girlfriend, all that,” Frank says.Īnd of course, there was the viral line “play that Blink-182 song that we beat to death in Tucson,” which spoke to millennial existence as well as any lyric this decade ( Taggart tweeted “Feeling This” and “I Miss You” as the most likely Blink songs to have inspired the line). The DJ believes it’s the song’s nostalgic sensibility - as well as its infectious synth hook - that kept it so popular. (Halsey was added only after Camila Cabello turned “Closer” down.) “That recording is pretty much the vocal that made the final cut,” Frank says. The Chainsmokers on Ruling the Billboard Hot 100 & Owning the 'Frat Bro' Labelįrank convinced Taggart, and he laid down his vocals right there on the bus - his first time singing lead on a Chainsmokers record. And I was just like, ‘Dude, you should sing the song, you sound great right now.’” The twist: neither Taggart, who sings the croony lead verse, nor then-mainstream newcomer Halsey, who seals the song with a cutting alt-pop edge, were ever supposed to sing on “Closer.” “ said ‘I can’t wait to get someone to sing this thing. “We were just picking from some weird things that had happened in life, trying to create these run-on sentences that were awkward and weird but still rhymed.” “ had a couple of the first lines figured out and we just went from there,” Frank says. ![]() The next day, The Chainsmokers’ tour opener, Canadian DJ and producer Shaun Frank, sat in to help pen the lyrics. Kennett and Taggart wrote the hypnotic hook melody in a night. The track’s construction was simple enough while on tour in support of their first Top 10 hit, “Roses,” Taggart invited Freddy Kennett of the Chicago-based DJ duo Louis The Child on the bus to flesh out some new ideas. ![]() Not too shabby for a song born in the back of Alex Pall and Drew Taggart’s tour bus in late 2015. 1 on the Hot 100 in late 2016, and earned a Diamond certification from the RIAA in 2018. The song stamped the pop consciousness for 12 weeks at No. But no EDM track this decade was as inescapable as “Closer,” The Chainsmokers’ future bass earworm. ![]()
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