![]() ![]() I’M OVER THAT= Now I don’t think about it anymore, I don’t suffer because of it anymore. Old vinyl records could be scratched and then, when playing the music, that could cause the needle to skip part of a song. If you go A, B, C, E, F, you are skipping the letter D. SKIPPING TRACKS= Tracks on a record or CD are every one of the songs. Can you manage that? = Can you do it?įURTHERMORE= And besides plus moreover and also. But the exact phrase he uses here, "scratch my back", is also used in the popular expression "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours", which means: if you help me, I'll help you. If I am a vinyl record and you scratch "my back", you play me (becuase to play a record, a needle must "scratch" the upper surface of it). SCRATCH= Use your finger nails to rub or scrape (the skin) to relieve itching. SHELF= (pl: shelves) A board on the wall or in a cupboard to put things on ( see picture)īLOW ME OFF= Blow over me (remember that I am a record) to take the dust away so you can play me (listen to my music). ![]() RECORD= The big vinyl disks used in the past to record music before CDs and Mp3s appeared ( see picture) WAS MEANT FOR YOU= Was designed thinking of you, to give it to you.ĭUSTY= Covered with dust (old and out of use) YOU FEEL LOW= You feel sad, you are depressed. My heart's a stereo (my heart's a stereo)Ī STEREO= A portable hi-fi device for playing music, with cassette player and radio ( see picture) Our love was dead, but now you're changing my mind I'll take your hand and hold it closer to mine Keep me stuck inside your head, like your favourite tuneīecause good music can be so hard to find You never know we come and go like on the interstate When you have to purchase mad D batteriesĪppreciate every mixtape your friends make Would you turn my volume up in front of the copsĪnd crank it higher everytime they told you to stopĪnd all I ask is that you don't get mad at me Would you hold me on your shoulder wherever you walk If I was an old-school fifty pound boombox You know my heart's a stereo that only plays for you ![]() Keep it stuck inside your head, like your favourite tune I'll sing it softly in your ear and grab you by the hand If I could only find a note to make you understand ' Cause holding grudges over love is ancient artifacts I used to used to used to used to, now I'm over that It's just the last girl who played me left a couple cracks Like read it well, check it Sammy, I can handle thatįurthermore, I apologize for any skippin' tracks If I asked you to scratch my back, could you manage that? Would you blow me off and play me like everybody else? Then a few weeks after that, this happened and it became a life-changing song.If I was just another dusty record on the shelf My partner and I had been working on pop songs for two years with no luck, and we were about to quit. They didn't know whose song it was - is it a Maroon 5 song? Is it Gym Class Heroes? It ended up being Gym Class Heroes featuring Adam Levine.īefore that I was literally broke and about to move back in with my parents. He wrote the bridge and suddenly we have a song. It started to take shape, it started to be awesome, then Adam Levine jumped on the hook because he was friends with Benny. He then made the song around the chorus and took some of the original demo parts, then sent it to Travie McCoy from Gym Class Heroes, who did the raps. They took the chorus and sent it to the legendary producer Benny Blanco. The label had us cut out the original verses. It turned into this entity of rapping and singing, but the original song was me and two other people that we wrote on a piano. "We were pitching it to artists to record for their albums and somebody at Fueled By Ramen / Atlantic Records heard the chorus and it became this bastardized - in a good way - hodgepodge of a bunch of different people collaborating on this one song. "It was originally more of an emo-pop-punk thing," he said. When he appeared on the Songfacts Podcast, he told the story behind the song. "Stereo Hearts" started life as a song written by the upstart songwriters Dano Omelio, Brandon Lowry and Ammar Malik Omelio and Lowry worked under the name Robopop, and also produced Lana Del Rey's hit " Video Games." Lowry used the pseudonym Sterling Fox for his Robopop work and records under the name Baby Fuzz. ![]()
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