But hearing his explanation made the song make a lot of sense to me. Pretty cool. Monahan wrote the song in less than an hour. The song came to him in a dream, and after he woke up, the song was in his head. When he woke up, he took about thirty minutes to write it down and sing the words into a Dictaphone.
The next night before bed he finished it up, and the song that was a conversation with his late mom was complete. And tell me, did Venus blow your mind? Was it everything you wanted to find? And did you miss me While you were looking for yourself out there? Monahan thanked his mom when he accepted the award. Of course, the great thing about songs is that you can always interpret them in your own way to find something for your own life. So if you hear something else or another thing in the song, that is cool too.
But it is also great to know the story behind the song. Editor-in-chief, New York. Amber Petersonm. He has been married to Amber Peterson since July 20, They have two children.
Call or submit an online request for group reservations. Skip to content Popular. He said, "We need to get Paul Buckmaster to do the string arrangement" -- because Almost Famous was a very popular movie at the time, and it was bringing all these old feelings back about these great string arrangements from Elton [John] and all that.
So we hired Paul Buckmaster. And because Brendan O'Brien, the producer of the album, was at the time a native Georgian, he was friends or at least acquaintances with [pianist] Chuck Leavell, also a native Georgian.
He came and played and gave the song all that bounce that you hear. He's a very percussive piano player who did a tremendous job.
I want to back up a bit — when you said you fell asleep and woke up, what are we talking about, a daytime nap? What was the setting? I was in Erie, Pennsylvania, where I'm from. I had moved my family back there because my relationship with my wife at the time was terrible and we needed to figure out if it was a location thing -- and it was not -- but we were there, and I fell asleep at night, and woke up maybe ten minutes later and it was all there.
I went downstairs and wrote it all out. I wanted to ask about a few specific lyrics. For starters, why Jupiter? Could it have been Neptune, Saturn? The soy latte lyric is such a specific detail. Was that inspired by a particular memory? There were a couple of things. At the time I didn't even drink coffee, but everybody else in the band did, and they would get soy lattes. It just sounded like a cool drink that I never had. And then I was asked to not put that in there because it was not, I don't know, it didn't sound masculine enough or something.
And I was like, "I don't understand that. Is that why "tell me" is in parenthesis on the original release, as "Drops of Jupiter Tell Me "? That's exactly right. That was Donnie's idea just because he's like, "Look, when people go in the record stores, they say, 'What's that song, "tell me" something? It was called "Drops of Jupiter" and no one ever calls it "Tell Me.
And honestly, whatever he thought was gonna make it work, I supported, because we needed him to be supportive of it. I don't know. That's what I thought at the time, too. So when I was singing it and people were asking me to change lyrics, I said, "Well, why don't you tell me what lyric to sing and I'll try it.
When you guys come up with something better, I'll sing that. Was that a specific reference to something? I think that's the nature of human beings, that's the kind of best friend you want to have.
At the time I had a really good best friend, and that's probably the way we felt about each other all through our childhood. So Don Ienner was a fan of the song right away. What was the band's initial reaction? I think they were relieved the song that we needed was written. But if they were being honest, they didn't want those lyrics in there either.
There's a great deal of self-preservation that happens when there is a chance of success. People want to protect what's theirs. It was a time when we shared publishing no matter who wrote things because I felt like it was a way to keep the band intact.
In hindsight, it was basically what drove us apart, instead of bringing us together. It was f--king awesome. It was so awesome. We finally could breathe, because we were given the go-ahead on a song, so it was just a matter of "just don't wreck it. The real work in all of music is the song. If you have the song, the recording of it, to me, is definitely the easy part. I feel like I probably sang it eight times. If you didn't have it by then, it's like, "Uhh… maybe we need a different singer.
Do you have any particular memories of working with Brendan O'Brien on the album? My initial experience with Brendan was so absolutely positive. I really looked at him as a mentor at the time. He was such a talented musician. He was playing a lot of the guitars and piano parts, but Chuck Leavell, that was a great call of Brendan's. He was like "Look, I can play piano, but we need a really great piano player. So the song comes out. It hits the Hot in March and by June it's No.
Were you watching its rise, hearing it blow up on radio? The first time I heard it was also in Erie, Pennsylvania. I heard it on a college radio station. This was at like 10 o'clock at night, I think I went to the gym or something and came home and was like, "Wow, they're finally playing this song. At the time I thought, "There's no way people are going to like this song, it's just too long.
We were traveling so much, really working hard to promote it, we were in Europe. At the time, Jon Landau was our manager, and he was able to secure a spot on the Grammys for us to perform. Those were the things that were really cool at the time more than the chart stuff -- but of course when we got back home and learned how well it was doing, it was pretty exciting.
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