June 29, 2023 • 15 mins
Celebrating his global smash “I’m Good (Blue)” w Bebe Rexha being #1 on both the pop AND dance charts simultaneously, David Guetta shares how the song was born and why he decided to take on the classic by Eiffel 65!
He also shares why being #1 on the U.S. pop chart is so meaningful to him. David also talks his strategy for avoiding the packing/unpacking trauma of touring DJs, and what his favorite suitcase is.
Follow: @AmericasDance30 on all socials!
Count down the biggest dance songs in the country every week with Brian Fink on America’s Dance 30; listen on dance stations around the world!
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Follow: @AmericasDance30 on all socials!
Count down the biggest dance songs in the country every week with Brian Fink on America’s Dance 30; listen on stations around the world!
He also shares why being #1 on the U.S. pop chart is so meaningful to him. David also talks his strategy for avoiding the packing/unpacking trauma of touring DJs, and what his favorite suitcase is.
Follow: @AmericasDance30 on all socials!
Count down the biggest dance songs in the country every week with Brian Fink on America’s Dance 30; listen on dance stations around the world!
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Follow: @AmericasDance30 on all socials!
Count down the biggest dance songs in the country every week with Brian Fink on America’s Dance 30; listen on stations around the world!
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(00:00):
David. I saw your video onInstagram about living the DJ life, about
how you've pretty much been living outof suitcases for the past three or four
months. First of all, howmany suitcases do you have? I mean,
it's it's that crazy that I haveplaces where I leave suitcases. This
(00:25):
is to tell you the level oforganization that this requires. So you know,
like I knew. I was likeright now, I'm I'm taking days
off, and I mean, Idon't know if you can see I mean
the mountain, I could look atthis crazy view, you know, oh
wow. And and you know Iknew I was going to do that,
(00:46):
so I left suitcases here since lastyear to avoid traveling with too many of
them. So usually I traveled withthree suitcases, but I leave different ones
in different places of the world.So it's a little bit crazy. And
you know, I was just realizingthis when I arrived here and see the
(01:06):
amount of suitcases that was there there. It sounds a bit ridiculous, but
really, like one of the worstpart of my life is packing and unpacking
every day. And when I sawlike ten suitcases, are like, oh
blood, And I was like,I staid wearing my jogging pants for five
(01:30):
days because I'm on holidays. Ijust don't want to do that because you
know, usually when I'm on tour, I have to do it, you
know, every morning to dress up, then I pack, i leave,
take the plane, unpack again,and and that's every day. So it
was just just a thought. Youknow, It's funny because I saw a
lot of DJs commenting on this,because you know, a lot of of
(01:53):
turning DJs as suffering from this uhpack unpacked trauma. Well, first of
all, I totally get it,because when I'm going on a trip,
I hate packing. I wait untillike two am to do it because I
hate it so much. I imaginedoing this every day. Oh that's okay,
I'll leave that to you now.I saw one of the comments was
(02:15):
asking, do you have a favoritesuitcase? Do you have a favorite suitcase?
I do. The brand is Remote. It's very cool. I'm gonna
be honest. You know, sometimesyou wear boots because they look cool,
but the sneakers are actually more comfortable. It's a little bit like that.
You know, it looks super megacool, but the reality is not as
(02:40):
perfectly comfortable if I was using justa plastic you know, But this is
metal. It looks very you know, and when you're constantly on the road,
it's almost like wearing a nice jacket. I want to have a nice
suitcase, David Getta has to havea nice suitcase. That's important. You
(03:02):
need to see me back. ButI'm really literally sitting on the suitcase to
close it, because of course,you know, I'm like everyone. Sometimes
I also go shopping, but becauseevery time my suitca is already then the
minute I buy even five T shirts, I can't close my suitcase by anyway.
(03:34):
Dance counting down the biggest dance songsin the country. This is America's
Dance thirty. David Getta, Welcomeback to America's Dance thirty. Thank you
so much. Congratulations. Now thisis gonna take a while. See might
want to get a cup of coffee. Congratulations on your Grammy nomination, your
(03:57):
iHeart Radio Award nomination, your britAward nomination, over a billion streams,
and being number one simultaneously on thepop and dance chart. And your manager
was telling me the AC chart too. I didn't even know about this one.
(04:18):
You're just giving me amazing It's insane, right, it is so crazy,
I know, what's completely insane isyou know, the waves of life
and of a career, and youknow, like I've been in the game
for so long that I'm starting tosampling myself, so you know, I'm
(04:42):
starting to copying what I was doingfifteen years ago. This is I think
why I'm having a lot of successright now, because you know, music
is always cycles, and each artisthas You know, if you're a musician,
you can do video anything, youknow as a producer as a musician
(05:03):
because you just analyze, but youhave a core music inside of you,
and you know, sometimes the trendis a little more favorable to me and
sometimes it's not, so I canalways navigate, but it happens that what's
(05:23):
hot right now it is back tothat sound that I exactly know how to
do, and it's really incredible forme, and it makes me so happy.
You know that I've been able tohave different moments of success in my
life, but now I almost appreciateit even more and I'm more humbled because
(05:48):
I know it's not always there,right and the first time it happens to
you. I say this to alot of DJs that are starting to have
a lot of success and that youstart to believe that you're just so good
that this is meant to be,you know, and then one day the
(06:10):
formula doesn't work anymore, and thenit's very hard to accept, you know.
So you know, to have aglobal number one at the same time
pop and dance, which is extremelymeaningful for me because I was always the
guy that is trying to make firstpeople dance but also timeless songs that resonates
(06:35):
to anyone. It's really crazy tobe number one dance and pop at the
same time. And also me asa French person being number one in America,
it's still like the biggest thing inthe world. And me as a
dance music producer and a DJ,it always sounds like, oh okay,
(07:00):
I'm not wanting the UK because thisis our culture or in France, but
America, you know, they're allabout hip hop and and rock, you
know you know what I mean,absolutely we but dance record that is number
one in the US. It's videa big, big deal. So thank
you so much for the support.Like, you don't know how happy this
makes me. And I gotta tellyou, as a core dance fan,
(07:23):
it makes me so happy that adance song is number one on the pop
charts, which is great. Now, you've had some incredible smashes through the
years in the history of David Ghetta. Is I'm Good the biggest one yet?
It's not yet, but I thinkit will be, because, of
(07:44):
course, you know, it's hardto compare at the numbers of a record
that he's ten years old, oryou know, like I Got a Fitting
or Titanium or a Sexy Bitch orthose records. So I don't know if
I can say it, how dareyou? But let's say, the trajectory
of the record now being at onebillion stream less than six months after the
(08:09):
release, this is really this isextremely rare just in music in general.
So it means that the record,if it keeps growing that way, will
be the biggest record of my career. Yes, absolutely, that is so
insane. Now. I got achance to speak with Bebe Rexa a couple
of days ago, and she sharedthe origin story about how five or six
(08:33):
years ago you guys were just prettymuch having fun in the studio with this
song. What made you decide totake on Ifel sixty five blue? Honestly,
it was just jamming and you knowit was like, oh, you
know, this is one record thatI really love, but you know,
the chords and yeah, page isso intemic, and then you know,
(08:56):
playing it, Babe started to jamon it, and I was like,
oh, this is crazy, buthonestly, like she said, we're just
having fun. It's like, okay, we're gonna try to make a hit
ricord. Let's have a little funwith this. And then I was like,
Okay, I love it. Butthere was a lot of hesitations from
(09:18):
the label and from Baby, andthen also for myself, so okay,
we don't know, We're not sure. And I was like, look,
as a DJ, there is noquestion this is massive. So I'm gonna
play and I'm gonna play a festivalversion because Okay, it's not gonna work
(09:39):
on the radio, but I'm surethe festival is gonna work. Imagine how
how crazy and unpredictable music is.No one knows. The truth is,
no one ever knows if it's ahit or not. Bbe and I were
talking about that, about how frustratingit is because listen, I told Babe,
I'm always one with the artists thatI'm chat adding with. Is this
(10:01):
the best David get a record?Ever, No, I mean, it's
a great record, but it's notthe best David get a record. Is
it weird? How insanely massive it'sgotten. One of the thing is that
we don't decide what is the best, what is the biggest. And this
is my new philosophy of life.In the last years, I've been making
(10:26):
records and releasing a lot of records, as you probably noticed, you know,
I had like probably in the yearfour or five top twenty records in
the UK. I had like futurewave that is not even trying to be
on the radio, is like pureDJ music, and just releasing music I
(10:46):
love and I let the people choosewhich one is a hit. So I
just decided that I was just goingto put music that I love out and
not stress about strategy a marketing plan, because all of this is actually a
(11:07):
waste of energy as an artist inmy opinion. Now this is very personal,
you know, and and I'm like, okay, what makes me happy
is to make music also to playwhen I DJ, you know, And
so I only make records that Iwould want to play as a DJ,
and then the people choose is thisa hit or not? And since I'm
(11:31):
doing this, I had so manyhits, and it's crazy because you know,
I was for a few years basingmy decisions a little bit too much
on fear that I would release arecord that is not a hit, and
now I accept that it's not inmy hands. Right. It's a little
bit humbling, but you know,especially when you've been a producer for so
(11:54):
many years. But I, atleast for me, this is what makes
my life happier. Well, it'sfunny that you mentioned that, because I
remember having a conversation with Chad fromTritonal about how they would try chasing the
wave of sound and they weren't happyabout it because they were losing their core,
(12:16):
and so they just went back tomaking the music that made them happy,
and whatever happens happens exactly. Ithink this is also what's amazing right
now. You know, a lotcan be said about the influence of TikTok
on music and all of this,but it also has something positive about it,
(12:37):
which is that we are letting thepeople decide. So it's a way
to make music more democratic, becauseyou know, a label could be spending
millions in a marketing plan and flop. The three five biggest artists in the
world could join on the record andup yep, because you know, today
(13:03):
it's the people. Yeah, it'sall about the people, I mean,
and it's great to see because thepeople are the core of the music and
the artists, which is great.Well, congratulations on all this success with
I'm Good Blue really quickly. SomethingI love to find out is how many
different versions there are from when youstart working on it. Tweaking it through
(13:26):
the process always gets allowed. Sowhen you finally put it out, how
many vs. Of I'm Good werethere? Finally? I think Bobby thirty
six something like this. Oh no, it's been worse, way worse.
I had like V one hundred andtwenty six. Yeah, yeah, thirty
(13:48):
six is not bad, you know, because it's what we talked about before.
It's like to be able to makea record that is on pup radio,
I mean, number one on popradio and also number one on dance
radio and also being played by everyDJ. It's extremely challenging because there's there's,
(14:09):
you know, something emotional about popthat is what catches the masses,
and there's something physical about dance music, you know, and sonic about what
makes you dance when you're in theclub and sometimes those two that they're fighting
against each other, you know,because to make a good dance music record,
(14:33):
you need to be very hypnotic,and to make a good pop record
you need not to be hypnotic,right, to be able to combine those
two worlds, which is like I'malways walking on this fine line, you
know, and it's really like anexercise. And when I get that support
(14:54):
like I'm doing right now from youguys, I really appreciate it so much.
So to all the listeners and doyou, thank you for making the
record number one, and thank youto b B Rexa obviously for supporting this
well. I've always said that whatmakes the best dance songs is when you
can strip away everything and it isstill an amazing song, which you can
(15:18):
definitely do with I'm Good Blue.David Ghetta, thank you for your time
on America's Dance thirty. Thank youso so much. Thank you, guys.
America's Dance thirty Counting down the biggestdance songs in the country. America's Dance thirty
David. I saw your video onInstagram about living the DJ life, about
how you've pretty much been living outof suitcases for the past three or four
months. First of all, howmany suitcases do you have? I mean,
it's it's that crazy that I haveplaces where I leave suitcases. This
(00:25):
is to tell you the level oforganization that this requires. So you know,
like I knew. I was likeright now, I'm I'm taking days
off, and I mean, Idon't know if you can see I mean
the mountain, I could look atthis crazy view, you know, oh
wow. And and you know Iknew I was going to do that,
(00:46):
so I left suitcases here since lastyear to avoid traveling with too many of
them. So usually I traveled withthree suitcases, but I leave different ones
in different places of the world.So it's a little bit crazy. And
you know, I was just realizingthis when I arrived here and see the
(01:06):
amount of suitcases that was there there. It sounds a bit ridiculous, but
really, like one of the worstpart of my life is packing and unpacking
every day. And when I sawlike ten suitcases, are like, oh
blood, And I was like,I staid wearing my jogging pants for five
(01:30):
days because I'm on holidays. Ijust don't want to do that because you
know, usually when I'm on tour, I have to do it, you
know, every morning to dress up, then I pack, i leave,
take the plane, unpack again,and and that's every day. So it
was just just a thought. Youknow, It's funny because I saw a
lot of DJs commenting on this,because you know, a lot of of
(01:53):
turning DJs as suffering from this uhpack unpacked trauma. Well, first of
all, I totally get it,because when I'm going on a trip,
I hate packing. I wait untillike two am to do it because I
hate it so much. I imaginedoing this every day. Oh that's okay,
I'll leave that to you now.I saw one of the comments was
(02:15):
asking, do you have a favoritesuitcase? Do you have a favorite suitcase?
I do. The brand is Remote. It's very cool. I'm gonna
be honest. You know, sometimesyou wear boots because they look cool,
but the sneakers are actually more comfortable. It's a little bit like that.
You know, it looks super megacool, but the reality is not as
(02:40):
perfectly comfortable if I was using justa plastic you know, But this is
metal. It looks very you know, and when you're constantly on the road,
it's almost like wearing a nice jacket. I want to have a nice
suitcase, David Getta has to havea nice suitcase. That's important. You
(03:02):
need to see me back. ButI'm really literally sitting on the suitcase to
close it, because of course,you know, I'm like everyone. Sometimes
I also go shopping, but becauseevery time my suitca is already then the
minute I buy even five T shirts, I can't close my suitcase by anyway.
(03:34):
Dance counting down the biggest dance songsin the country. This is America's
Dance thirty. David Getta, Welcomeback to America's Dance thirty. Thank you
so much. Congratulations. Now thisis gonna take a while. See might
want to get a cup of coffee. Congratulations on your Grammy nomination, your
(03:57):
iHeart Radio Award nomination, your britAward nomination, over a billion streams,
and being number one simultaneously on thepop and dance chart. And your manager
was telling me the AC chart too. I didn't even know about this one.
(04:18):
You're just giving me amazing It's insane, right, it is so crazy,
I know, what's completely insane isyou know, the waves of life
and of a career, and youknow, like I've been in the game
for so long that I'm starting tosampling myself, so you know, I'm
(04:42):
starting to copying what I was doingfifteen years ago. This is I think
why I'm having a lot of successright now, because you know, music
is always cycles, and each artisthas You know, if you're a musician,
you can do video anything, youknow as a producer as a musician
(05:03):
because you just analyze, but youhave a core music inside of you,
and you know, sometimes the trendis a little more favorable to me and
sometimes it's not, so I canalways navigate, but it happens that what's
(05:23):
hot right now it is back tothat sound that I exactly know how to
do, and it's really incredible forme, and it makes me so happy.
You know that I've been able tohave different moments of success in my
life, but now I almost appreciateit even more and I'm more humbled because
(05:48):
I know it's not always there,right and the first time it happens to
you. I say this to alot of DJs that are starting to have
a lot of success and that youstart to believe that you're just so good
that this is meant to be,you know, and then one day the
(06:10):
formula doesn't work anymore, and thenit's very hard to accept, you know.
So you know, to have aglobal number one at the same time
pop and dance, which is extremelymeaningful for me because I was always the
guy that is trying to make firstpeople dance but also timeless songs that resonates
(06:35):
to anyone. It's really crazy tobe number one dance and pop at the
same time. And also me asa French person being number one in America,
it's still like the biggest thing inthe world. And me as a
dance music producer and a DJ,it always sounds like, oh okay,
(07:00):
I'm not wanting the UK because thisis our culture or in France, but
America, you know, they're allabout hip hop and and rock, you
know you know what I mean,absolutely we but dance record that is number
one in the US. It's videa big, big deal. So thank
you so much for the support.Like, you don't know how happy this
makes me. And I gotta tellyou, as a core dance fan,
(07:23):
it makes me so happy that adance song is number one on the pop
charts, which is great. Now, you've had some incredible smashes through the
years in the history of David Ghetta. Is I'm Good the biggest one yet?
It's not yet, but I thinkit will be, because, of
(07:44):
course, you know, it's hardto compare at the numbers of a record
that he's ten years old, oryou know, like I Got a Fitting
or Titanium or a Sexy Bitch orthose records. So I don't know if
I can say it, how dareyou? But let's say, the trajectory
of the record now being at onebillion stream less than six months after the
(08:09):
release, this is really this isextremely rare just in music in general.
So it means that the record,if it keeps growing that way, will
be the biggest record of my career. Yes, absolutely, that is so
insane. Now. I got achance to speak with Bebe Rexa a couple
of days ago, and she sharedthe origin story about how five or six
(08:33):
years ago you guys were just prettymuch having fun in the studio with this
song. What made you decide totake on Ifel sixty five blue? Honestly,
it was just jamming and you knowit was like, oh, you
know, this is one record thatI really love, but you know,
the chords and yeah, page isso intemic, and then you know,
(08:56):
playing it, Babe started to jamon it, and I was like,
oh, this is crazy, buthonestly, like she said, we're just
having fun. It's like, okay, we're gonna try to make a hit
ricord. Let's have a little funwith this. And then I was like,
Okay, I love it. Butthere was a lot of hesitations from
(09:18):
the label and from Baby, andthen also for myself, so okay,
we don't know, We're not sure. And I was like, look,
as a DJ, there is noquestion this is massive. So I'm gonna
play and I'm gonna play a festivalversion because Okay, it's not gonna work
(09:39):
on the radio, but I'm surethe festival is gonna work. Imagine how
how crazy and unpredictable music is.No one knows. The truth is,
no one ever knows if it's ahit or not. Bbe and I were
talking about that, about how frustratingit is because listen, I told Babe,
I'm always one with the artists thatI'm chat adding with. Is this
(10:01):
the best David get a record?Ever, No, I mean, it's
a great record, but it's notthe best David get a record. Is
it weird? How insanely massive it'sgotten. One of the thing is that
we don't decide what is the best, what is the biggest. And this
is my new philosophy of life.In the last years, I've been making
(10:26):
records and releasing a lot of records, as you probably noticed, you know,
I had like probably in the yearfour or five top twenty records in
the UK. I had like futurewave that is not even trying to be
on the radio, is like pureDJ music, and just releasing music I
(10:46):
love and I let the people choosewhich one is a hit. So I
just decided that I was just goingto put music that I love out and
not stress about strategy a marketing plan, because all of this is actually a
(11:07):
waste of energy as an artist inmy opinion. Now this is very personal,
you know, and and I'm like, okay, what makes me happy
is to make music also to playwhen I DJ, you know, And
so I only make records that Iwould want to play as a DJ,
and then the people choose is thisa hit or not? And since I'm
(11:31):
doing this, I had so manyhits, and it's crazy because you know,
I was for a few years basingmy decisions a little bit too much
on fear that I would release arecord that is not a hit, and
now I accept that it's not inmy hands. Right. It's a little
bit humbling, but you know,especially when you've been a producer for so
(11:54):
many years. But I, atleast for me, this is what makes
my life happier. Well, it'sfunny that you mentioned that, because I
remember having a conversation with Chad fromTritonal about how they would try chasing the
wave of sound and they weren't happyabout it because they were losing their core,
(12:16):
and so they just went back tomaking the music that made them happy,
and whatever happens happens exactly. Ithink this is also what's amazing right
now. You know, a lotcan be said about the influence of TikTok
on music and all of this,but it also has something positive about it,
(12:37):
which is that we are letting thepeople decide. So it's a way
to make music more democratic, becauseyou know, a label could be spending
millions in a marketing plan and flop. The three five biggest artists in the
world could join on the record andup yep, because you know, today
(13:03):
it's the people. Yeah, it'sall about the people, I mean,
and it's great to see because thepeople are the core of the music and
the artists, which is great.Well, congratulations on all this success with
I'm Good Blue really quickly. SomethingI love to find out is how many
different versions there are from when youstart working on it. Tweaking it through
(13:26):
the process always gets allowed. Sowhen you finally put it out, how
many vs. Of I'm Good werethere? Finally? I think Bobby thirty
six something like this. Oh no, it's been worse, way worse.
I had like V one hundred andtwenty six. Yeah, yeah, thirty
(13:48):
six is not bad, you know, because it's what we talked about before.
It's like to be able to makea record that is on pup radio,
I mean, number one on popradio and also number one on dance
radio and also being played by everyDJ. It's extremely challenging because there's there's,
(14:09):
you know, something emotional about popthat is what catches the masses,
and there's something physical about dance music, you know, and sonic about what
makes you dance when you're in theclub and sometimes those two that they're fighting
against each other, you know,because to make a good dance music record,
(14:33):
you need to be very hypnotic,and to make a good pop record
you need not to be hypnotic,right, to be able to combine those
two worlds, which is like I'malways walking on this fine line, you
know, and it's really like anexercise. And when I get that support
(14:54):
like I'm doing right now from youguys, I really appreciate it so much.
So to all the listeners and doyou, thank you for making the
record number one, and thank youto b B Rexa obviously for supporting this
well. I've always said that whatmakes the best dance songs is when you
can strip away everything and it isstill an amazing song, which you can
(15:18):
definitely do with I'm Good Blue.David Ghetta, thank you for your time
on America's Dance thirty. Thank youso so much. Thank you, guys.
America's Dance thirty Counting down the biggestdance songs in the country. America's Dance thirty
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