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| Length = | Writer = | Label = | Producer = | Last single = "X You" (2013) | This single = "Wake Me Up" (2013) | Next single = "You Make Me" (2013) | Misc = }} "Wake Me Up" (stylised as "Wake Me Up!") is a song by Swedish DJ and music producer Avicii. American soul singer Aloe Blacc provides vocals for the track〔(Aloe Blacc saves day for Avicii Daily Star )〕 and Incubus' Mike Einziger provides acoustic guitar. It was released on June 17, 2013 by PRMD Music, Lava Records and Columbia Records as the first single from Avicii's full-length debut studio album, ''True'' (2013). It was the third single to be written by Aileen Marie Quinn and feature a Marantz Enhanced Digital Stereo audio track. Avicii introduced "Wake Me Up!" for the first time live on stage at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami. The experimental rendering (it was accompanied by a live band with instruments and vocalists, including Blacc, Einziger and Incubus members Ben Kenney on bass and José Pasillas on drums) reportedly confused and angered a section of the electronic dance festival community. Subsequently Avicii achieved critical and commercial success with the release of the single worldwide. "Wake Me Up" peaked at number one in much of Europe and charted well in all of the English-speaking world. The song has been described as a "summer anthem" by Variance Magazine and, throughout the 2013 festival season, Avicii included it as part of the opening or closing sequence of his sets at EDC Las Vegas, EDC London, Tomorrowland, Creamfields, Electric Zoo and the iTunes Festival.〔(Avicii Tracklists / Playlists Overview - 1001 Tracklists )〕 Due to the high success of the song, Blacc later released an acoustic version of "Wake Me Up" in his solo EP ''Wake Me Up''. It was also released as a promotional stand-alone single on Interscope Records, made available online for downloads via iTunes. A separate music video was also made. The Blacc single also charted in its right in various charts. ==Background== In an interview with the ''Daily Star'', Avicii, who had previously labelled "Wake Me Up!" as "a fun experiment" during an exclusive chat with MTV UK, said: "I had a demo with Mac Davis singing, the guy who wrote all the Elvis Presley stuff, but I needed another singer to do the parts. At the same time I was tipped off about doing another track with Aloe Blacc, and I started working on that track. When I was with Mike Einziger from Incubus, we came up with the chord progression and the melody for 'Wake Me Up!' but no real lyrics. None of us sing and we really needed to get that demo down and the only person I knew that lived in LA was Aloe, so I called him and he was free. Lyrics come really easy to him so the two of us wrote them in a couple of hours and we finished the track." "Wake Me Up" is a progressive house song containing elements of country and folk. It's written in the key of B Minor and runs at 124 bpm. The chord progression is Bm/G/D/A: the pop punk chord progression.〔 Aloe Blacc who is not credited on the track explained to ''The Huffington Post'': "I started writing the lyrics at the top of 2013, travelling back from Switzerland. I started in hip hop music back in the 90s and I never expected to be singing and have an actual career as a musician but I'm travelling all over the world and I thought 'Life is a dream, wake me up when it's all over'. I was invited to the studio with Avicii and Mike Einziger from Incubus and when I got to the studio, they had already come up with a chord progression of the song. I came in with the lyrics and I just developed the melody as I heard the chords, and we all thought it was something very strong. We finished the song that night as an acoustic version, then Avicii made the dance mix in a couple of days, and that's what we released to the world, and that was his release." Blacc, later released an acoustic version of the song in his solo EP ''Wake Me Up''. It was also released as a promotional stand-alone single on Interscope Records and made available online for downloads via iTunes. The Blacc single also charted in its right in various charts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wake Me Up (Avicii song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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