How the Kid Laroi made the most popular song in the world without even trying...
How the Kid Laroi made the most popular song in the world without even trying... A magical hang with Charlie Puth, a mysterious Internet leak and a Bieber co-sign helped propel “Stay” to number one everywhere.
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Blake Slatkin, who co-wrote and produced “Stay,” explains over the phone that the song came together haphazardly on a Sunday in Los Angeles. As the story goes, musician Charlie Puth and producer Omer Fedi were hanging out at Slatkin’s parents’ house when Laroi invited himself over. Puth had parked himself at the piano, just messing around with some melodies, and when Laroi walked in and immediately started freestyling. "The second he heard the melody, he knew exactly what to sing," Puth tells me. Puth and Laroi hadn’t met before, but the collaboration felt kismet. "He wrote the hook in a few seconds,” adds Puth. “It was so sick.” Slatkin and Fedi pulled up Pro Tools and recorded the song in one take.
“It was one of the most insane, magical strokes of genius I've ever seen in my entire life!” screams Slatkin over the phone. Next, Laroi brought Bieber into the mix, before sending the track to Laroi's management. It sat untouched on Slatkin’s hard drive for months, aside from two brief teasers on Instagram Live. About a month before “Stay” appeared on Spotify, the song mysteriously appeared on a Discord server; someone had apparently broken into Slatkin’s hard drive. “Laroi and I would scooter around UCLA late at night,” says Slatkin. “We had kids yelling at us, 'Drop “Stay”! Drop “Stay”!’ Kids would DM us, hundreds and hundreds of direct messages being like, ‘Drop “Stay”! Tell Laroi to drop “Stay”!’”
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