The making of the Coachella Song
To everybody driving out to the desert now:
I absolutely love Coachella. That’s why I wrote the Coachella Song. For me, it symbolizes the beginning of summer. When it’s still a little damp in L.A., the heat is on out there in the desert. The drive to Coachella is so exciting and uplifting, and the Coachella Song is the natural outcome of that emotion. I wrote the Coachella Song in 2007. I had just started to write lyrics and produce music–I wrote twenty songs within a couple of months. One of them was the Coachella Song. My intention was to create dark, industrial dance music, the antidote to Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake. Massive Attack with a dance beat, but without losing the magic and sensuality. However, the sensuality ended up getting replaced with a bit of roughness. Often I am accused by my girlfriend of not being very sensual and romantic. The Coachella Song, though, is a little lighter than “Worship”. I do find romanticism in old rusted, industrial warehouses, which is intensely reflected in my Overpainted Photographs. The Coachella Song was sitting on the shelf until last Sunday, when I called my partner in Cologne, Dirk Nikolai, with whom I had produced Worship, along with Robert Crash (Eurythmics), in November 2008 in Cologne. I said, let’s make a Coachella Song happen now. I asked Dirk if he had any exciting tracks, and he said that he just had finished something “fresh,” that’s what he calls it. He emailed it to me and I tried to match it with my Coachella Song lyrics. It worked. We jammed a couple of times over Skype and mastered it today, Thursday, April 15. So, I hope you guys enjoy it while you are driving out to the desert.
Let’s go,
Alex
Coachella Song – Lyrics
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Aaaaaahhhhuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwroooaaaaaaaaaaaaaar
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnehhhhhhoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go to the desert now
bluppppppppppppppppppppppp, blup blup blup blup blup blup
Boys, girls, come on let’s go, blup blup blup
Take the ten freeway get out of LA
Head east and exit Jefferson Blvd
Get, get, get stuck in traffic for an hour or two
Make it to the polo field and head straight for the cue
Head, head straight for the cue
Head, head straight for the cue
Head, head straight for the cue
Boys, girls, let’s go, let’s go
Head, head, head , head, head, head, head, head , head, head, head, head
blup blup blup blup blup blup
Come on let’s go, blup blup blup blup blup blup
Boys girls, boys girls
Sun, wind, air, stars, light, mountain-silhouettes,dust boys girls, auuuuuuuuuuu
Let’s go, life is short,blup blup blup blup blup blup ooooo, let’s go
Shoulder to shoulder let’s stand united dripping sweat from the tip of our head
Blup,blup blup blup blup blup oooooooo
Let’s go, let’s go aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuahhhhhhhhhhhh
What you waiting fooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooor
Boys, girls blup blup blup blup blup blup, auuuu
Let’s go to a place where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
Here let’s dance in the darkness of the night feet by feet in screaming heat
Shoulder by shoulder let’s stand united dripping sweat from the tip of the head
Bluppppppppppppppppppppppp
Boys head straight for the cue
Girls head straight for the cue
Boys head straight for the cue
Girls head straight for the cue
Let’s go to the desert now
Head, head, head, head, head
Head, head straight for the cue
Head, head straight for the cue
Head, head straight for the cue
Take the ten freeway get out of LA
Head east and exit Jefferson Blvd
Boys girls, boys girls, let’s go to the desert noooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwww
Boys girls, boys girls, bluppppppppppppppppppppppp
Boys girls, boys girls, let’s go what are you waiting for
Au blup
