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Mike poser4/5/2023 How do you feel about the “Mike Posner is back!” narrative? From your perspective, you didn’t go anywhere. And I come from a hip-hop background, so I’ve sampled. He could quote, sample, anyone he wanted. From what I understand about Shakespeare - which is not a whole lot - I’ve read that one of the factors in helping make Shakespeare Shakespeare was that there were no copyright laws then. And a certain percentage of these people that hear it go back and hear the original. You’re not an EDM artist, you were never going to make an EDM version. I produced one version, and then these guys reimagined my thing, and it’s much more popular. People say, “Are you pissed that the original one didn’t go?” I find that to be a very pessimistic outlook. In one respect, they’re right. How does it feel for the song to chart so high as a remix? But if I’m at a radio thing, I play the more acoustic original version. It’d be a bit selfish to completely abandon the remix at a concert, where people paid money and want to hear that version of the song. It starts off with just me and it ends at just me. The remix is too fast for me physically, so we slow it down. When you play the song live, are you playing the remix or are you going to play the album version? I had some version of that interaction with different words. I want to say about 9.5. The only part that’s not 100 percent autobiographical is the third verse of the original, where I say, “I met some fans on Lafayette.” This exact encounter did not take place with these exact quotes. We’ll start with the question I’m sure everybody asks: O n a scale of one to ten, how autobiographical is the song? (Both versions of “Ibiza” will appear on his second album, At Night, Alone, coming May 6.) The day before he performed the song on The Tonight Show, he stopped by Vulture’s offices for a candid talk about success and ambition, and what he’s learned since his first brush with fame. Posner is aware of the irony: A song he wrote attempting to disavow his fame has made him more famous than ever before, thanks to no particular effort of his. (In the U.K., where the Mediterranean island is a more relatable reference to the average punter, it’s currently at No. “I get along with old-timers ‘cause my name’s a reminder of a pop song people forgot.” The song wasn’t a hit, until Posner’s vocal track was picked up by Norwegian duo SeeB, who sped it up and added a pulsating EDM beat their remix has “Ibiza,” a year after its release, in the Billboard Top Ten. “I’m just a singer who already blew his shot,” he sings. One of them, “I Took a Pill in Ibiza,” baits the hook with a story of a wild night Posner experienced with the Swedish DJ Avicii, before swerving toward its real subject: Posner’s complicated feelings toward his own mild level of fame. In 2015, he released an EP, The Truth, full of sensitive acoustic jams. A career as the next Dan Wilson or Linda Perry did not seem unthinkable.īut while he was out of the spotlight, Posner didn’t stop making music on his own. He gave “Boyfriend” to Justin Bieber and “Sugar” to Maroon 5, and wrote songs for Austin Mahone, Nick Jonas, and Big Time Rush. He scrapped two attempts at a sophomore record, Sky High and Pages, and turned his attention to songwriting and producing. “I was still fighting my depression, and the world felt too big,” he would tell fans in a video a few years later. He was 22 years old.Īfter that, Posner’s high-pitched rasp disappeared from the radio. A third single, “Bow Chicka Wow Wow,” featuring Lil’ Wayne, got to No. Its follow-up, “Please Don’t Go,” hit No. In 2010, the Detroit native’s jaunty debut single, “Cooler Than Me,” peaked at No. For the last five years, Mike Posner has existed in the strange shadow world of the formerly famous.
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