Lightning (Commentary)

This is cool

The next song is called "Lightning", and it's actually, umm

It's a bit of a journey, this song

I started writing this track, umm

And I had it pretty much mapped out and had, had everything there

But I just hadn't finished it, I just

Had to finish a little bit of it off

And I called on a friend of mine, her name's Britt and she's in L.A

And we got into the studio and I said, "Aw"

She said, "Aw, is there anything else you want us to work on?"

And I said, "Aw, there is this song that I need to finish

Maybe you can help me finish this idea I've got"

I played her the chords and I sung her the melody

I said, "You know the first few lines are"

I said, "It's called 'Lightning' and I

Want it to finish with this, you know

Play on the phrase, like lightning doesn't strike twice"

And I said, "But I want it, I want it to be, you know

About how you hope they aren't right

And that lightning does strike twice

'Cause what you had was amazing but you

Lost it and you want to be struck again"

And so I start singing her these melodies and this

Basically some of the words that I had

And she looks at me and she's like

She had just been through a break-up and she's like

"Dude, I just wrote a song called 'Lightning'

And it's pretty much about the exact same thing"

And it was weird, both of our worlds just combined

And we pretty much had the song written like that

And it was just me originally singing the tune

But at some stage I thought

Actually it'd be pretty cool to do it as a duet

So I went in and I wrote a bridge

And I sort of changed some of the words so that it was duet-like

And I got a local Melbourne girl named Fatai

And if you don't know who Fatai is

She was on The Voice actually, the first season of The Voice

Her voice is incredible, like ridiculous

I heard her sing on YouTube and she did this

Little acoustic thing with "Chandelier"

And I think it got like 1500 million views in three days or something

That's not the official view count, I don't think

But it got a lot of views and rightly so, because it was amazing

And then I went in and watched a bunch of her other stuff

And I thought, "She will kill this song"

And so I got her, flew her down from Melbourne

And she came into my studio here in Sydney

And tracked her vocal

She was super sweet, super excited about the song

And, and, umm, yeah

I just love how the vocal turned out and

After finishing the comp

After finishing editing her vocals and stuff

I listened back to it and I couldn't

Imagine the song any other way now

She killed it, thank you Fatai, you absolutely killed it

Here it is, "Lightning"