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Album: Preview to Paradise (2012)
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Songfacts®:

  • This is the first single by Australian singer-songwriter Cody Simpson, from his debut full-length album. The singer gave his fans a first peek of the song when he performed an acoustic version on Valentine's Day 2012. The recorded version features American rapper/singer T-Pain.
  • Here's what Cody told Billboard magazine about the song: "It originally started as a guitar idea, and we decided we wanted to produce the whole thing up. It's got a lot of dubstep elements to it. I wanted to do something a lot of people would be surprised with me putting out. I love being unpredictable and unexpected."
  • The song did not chart and was excluded from the final track listing for Paradise. According to Simpson, the tune was not an accurate example of the full album and he only put it on the preview EP "because my fans like it."

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