Kid Harpoon Reveals Why Harry Styles’ ‘As It Was’ Is a Pop Music ‘Anomaly’


Kid Harpoon, Tom Hull

Tom Hull (also known as Kid Harpoon) photographed on September 15, 2022 at Riverside Park in New York.

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Kid Harpoon has actually turned into one of one of the most in-demand producers in pop songs in the in 2014 as well as on Tuesday (Dec 6), he splashed the tea concerning collaborating with Harry Styles on “As It Was” in a brand-new meeting with Apple Music.

“Do you know what is funny about that song is how quickly it came together,” the British artist birthed Tom Hull informed Apple Music 1’sZane Lowe “That’s my favored aspect of it due to the fact that it’s not such as ‘Watermelon Sugar,’ as an example. That track was created in half a day … and after that it was this actually s— y appearing demonstration as well as all of us liked it as well as no person else rather obtained it. And after that it took us months as well as months as well as months of simply breaking away as well as obtaining it right.

“And then people weren’t quite sure it was going to be a single. Harry was like, ‘This is a single,’ and then it became the single. So it was this whole real labor of love to prove a point,” he proceeded. “I’ve learned so much from working with him because he understands how to follow his instincts.”

As for the Harry’s House hit’s wonderful success– consisting of costs 15 nonconsecutive weeks atop the Hot 100–Kid Harpoon chalked it as much as being “the right artist, the right time, the right song, the right lyric, the right production.”

“There’s so much that has to align and one thing can be off and it’s not ‘As It Was,’” he wrapped up. “That’s why it’s an anomaly compared to a lot of music.”

The budding superproducer additionally dished in the meeting concerning collaborating with the similarity Lizzo, Maggie Rogers as well as Florence Welch, exposing the “About Damn Time” vocalist is “obsessed with Radiohead” as well as stating the Florence + the Machine frontwoman “works harder” than any one of her contemporaries in the workshop.

Source: billboard.com

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