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COVER INTERVIEW > DAVID GUETTA: DANCE MUSIC’S CHAMELEON


                                                              Music wise, what have been some of your highlights this
                                                              year alongside the massive success of ‘I’m Good (Blue)’?
                                                              I’m still on this wave of ‘I’m Good (Blue)’. It’s been No.1 on
                                                              the Billboard Dance Chart for 52 weeks, and that’s crazy to
                                                              think about. There’s still a big impact that I’m feeling from
                                                              it, and although my other single ‘Baby Don’t Hurt Me’ is not
                                                              as big we’re still going to be landing 1 billion streams on
                                                              Spotify soon, and it’s still successful. ‘I’m Good (Blue)’ is just
                                                              so big that it makes anything look small compared to that,
                                                              and to think that we have a billion streams on a record is
                                                              still completely crazy to me. Those two records have been
                                                              so big that I had to give them space to live and put out less
                                                              records under the David Guetta name.  We do have a new
                                                              record coming very soon which has a higher tempo, which
                                                              I’m very excited about, and I also have the recent release
                                                              ‘On My Love’ with Zara Larsson. I think it’s having a great
                                                              start too, which I’m also happy about.

                                                              Commercial hits aside, the darker style of Future Rave is
                                                              something that David Guetta has also been nourishing. As
                                                              the sound is approaching 5 years old, he believes it is time
                                                              to switch up the formula once more.

                                                              Let’s talk about the year for Future Rave. How are you
                                                              finding the revolution of the sound?
                                                              I’m really in the middle of trying to find out where we’re
                                                              going next. I’m sure people like Anyma and Tale Of Us are
                                                              probably in the same situation, because we have such
                                                              a defined style and sound. MORTEN & I recently released
                                                              ‘Something To Hold On To’ and it included a more soulful
                                                              type of vocal. I wanted to break the pattern of doing too
                                                              much of the same formula. Future Rave is 5 years old now,
                                                              so I’m really in the middle of working on the new formulas
                                                              for it together with MORTEN, and we talk about this a
                                                              lot. Everything we’re doing works extremely well but by
                                                              definition the idea of Future Rave is to be futuristic. We don’t
                                                              like to stay stuck too long on a single formula, otherwise it
                                                              just doesn’t fit the purpose.

                                                              When it comes to DJ tracks, you have two different
                                                              approaches. One of them is the idea of making timeless
                                                              music, and that’s what I’m trying to do when I’m doing
                                                              David Guetta records. You can play ‘Love Is Gone’ today
                                                              and it’s going to smash the dance floor no matter what.
                                                              Then on the other hand, there’s DJ records that are more
                                                              focused on production tricks and fresh sounds, and this by
                                                              definition needs to evolve all the time. I don’t like doing only
                                                              one style because then it gets boring, you get stuck to the
                                                              same formula and the same type of sounds. It’s actually
                                                              funny, the way I work. I will do a pop record, and then I will
                                                              do a Future Rave or techno record. If I do a full Future Rave
                                                              EP with MORTEN then I’m going to do something for fun. I just
                                                              need to do something different sometimes.










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