Super Far
by LANY

Album: LANY (2017)
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Songfacts®:

  • LANY frontman Paul Klein wrote this song with Ryan Tedder from OneRepublic. The pair already had a connection as their fathers went to school together. Klein recalled the collaboration in an interview with Pop Crush:

    "[Ryan] emailed our guy and said that he wanted to work together, but it wasn't until a year and a half later till I got around to it. And we don't do co-writes that much. And I didn't want to walk into a studio with him [and] needing a song, if that makes sense. I didn't want any of that pressure. I wanted to make our album and go in and have fun. And that's just what happened.

    So we finally got in a room, and we just worked on melody. He was respectful and my process and wanting to write the words. So we went through chord progression, and then he left.

    I put my words to the song, and then I went to Nashville where Jake [Clifford Goss] and I worked on it with our Dell computer like how we make everything else."

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