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Speaker 1 (00:00):
David, it is great seeing you again.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We've got a lot to talk about in a short
amount of time. We're going to be chatting about a
Better World with Cedric Gervay. We're going to be chatting
about your new smash together. We're also going to get
to know David Ghetta a little better with Thinkey's favorites,
and ask you a question that you have possibly never
been asked before the Icon. David Getta, welcome back to
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America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Thank you so much, thank you, thank you. I'm curious
about the question, but we'll see.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
We will definitely see dance counting down the biggest dance
songs in the country. This is America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
You know, I know you are beyond insane, so as always,
I greatly appreciate your time.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah, well, it's it's it's summertimes, so I imagine anybi's uh.
Plus I do lots of European shows during the weekends,
so it's it's quite a lot. But it's also amazing,
you know, it's a it's a great time.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I bet well.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Congratulations on the incredible success of A Better World with
Cedria Gervai.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Well, thank you very much. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
It's it's a it's really fun because we were both
French and we uh we went back to a little
bit of that French touch kind of house music that
we uh enjudged so much, you know, end of the
nineties beginning of the two thousands, and we wanted to
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dig into this vibe and uh yeah, well it's it's
it's doing good.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
So we're happy.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yeah, and it absolutely blew my mind. Ceeder Gervais joined
us last month and he shared with us that he
actually won to shelve it. And then when he moved
on to another project with you, you're the one that reminded
him about it to move forward with it. How does
you keep track of all the songs that you're working on?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Sometimes I forget some, It's true, it happens. It's actually
funny because like sometimes like someone is from my team
is playing me something and I'm like, huh, these things
are about It's like, oh, yeah, you wrote it five
years ago, you know, but this one I felt, you know,
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the original idea, Like there was the first demo that
he played me and I really liked it and it
felt so different because of that reason, because of being
a little bit.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Of that French Dutch vibe.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
And we have very good friends, so you know, we
speak often about music, of course, and then one day
like he was playing me RecA but remember this record
you played me.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Like a year.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
It was something it was so good, so good, Like,
why don't we work on that?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
So we did it.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
You did it and it turned out amazing. Congratulations on
the success. Now I can't wait to talk about your
news smash together with Bonnie Tyler and hype a Ton.
But before we talk about that, let's get to know
David Ghetta a little better.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
With Finkey's favorites.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Okay, what's a.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Moment in your career where you felt completely out of
your comfort zone but it ended up being a favorite
moment of yours?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Oooh so many of them actually, because you know, I
don't want to be too deep about that, but what
I want to say is like, in order to be successful,
you need to put yourself out of your comfort zone.
And every time I did something that was important for
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my career, I was out of my comfort zone. So
there's a lot, but I think this is the most
important things maybe to take out of it, you know,
for people that are maybe young DJs or producers. Is like,
you know, when you stay in the comfort zone, when
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you do what everyone is doing, you're going to be accepted,
but you're probably not going to have that big success.
And you know, it's the time that I was like
criticize the most that I've been also pivot in my life,
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you know, And I remember like when I did Sexy
Bitch or you know, I got a Feeling or all
those records like my scene that I was like the
I crashed.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
It's like because at the time there was such an
opposition between the urban scene and house music scene, and
to me, it was not making sense. And I was
coming from house and it became a new standard, you know,
even collaborating with pop artists that was like seen as
the ultimate.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Betrayal. And me, I just love music.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I come from house music, but I actually come from
funk and disco, and you know that's my culture, so
I cannot always do the same, Like to me, it
doesn't make sense. I've learned how to appreciate other genres
of music already from when I was a kid, and
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the more I make music, the more I learn and
the more I respect other genres.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I love that, and it totally makes sense because it's
along the same lines as a Vichy when he brought
out Alo Black at Ultra and got booed, and then
it turns into one of the biggest global songs ever.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I think it's human nature, you know, like every time
you're part of a group, the people of the group
don't like that you do something different because it feels
like a betrayal.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
But it's not.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
It's just an evolution and some people need to sometimes
be a little disruptive for the scene to stay alive.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Also, and thank god you were Now what is one
of your favorite non David ghetto songs of the moment?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Okay, it's not like right now right now, But like
when Cavin Harris came with this last.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Record, I was extremely impressed.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
He posted it even before before he released it, and
I texted and I'm like, ah, you killed me on
this one, Like you know, you know the type of
the type of song that you say like why didn't
I do that?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Like, yeah, that's great.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Is the person that makes me feel like that, that
makes me feel like.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
So on your list? Is he kind of the one
that you're in competition with?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah, but We are very very friendly because every time
I always support is record, I met remixes for him.
Like we are friendly together. We speak on a regular basis.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
But yeah, is.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
The one that I see as my competition, but not
only me. But I'm saying this in a very nice way,
you know, because I have so much I admire him.
But you know, like for so many years in Vegas
any Bisa, in so many different places, I was kind
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of the only artist that they could put against him,
and he was the only artist they could put against me.
It was so annoying, Like promoters, if one promoter would
have me, they would put him on the same day,
like oh my god.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
So we would speak about it like this is so annoying.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
But you know it's like, okay, if he plays, like
every other club is going to be empty, so we
need we need David or if I play same, we
need Kenny Harry. So yeah, he is the one guy
that I'm like, wow, you know, yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
You're both icons.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Finally, in Finkey's Favorites in honor of your news smash
together with Bonnie Tyler, which is of course the twenty
twenty five version of the iconic eighties song Total Eclipse
of the Heart. What is David Gheta's favorite guilty pleasure
song from the eighties, That's one.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Of them, for sure.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Always a little bit of cheese in the eighties, but
in a very nice way. And I don't know, it
just gives me that eighties music gives me such a
feel good Also, like I really loved that we didn't
use the chorus, you know, we used the verse at
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the beginning, and then we sample just the word together.
And I think the production is very, very fresh that
we did together with Hypaton, and it's an approach that
is it's a i think, very different from any drop
that has been made lately.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
And it's very difficult.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I'm gonna be a little technical now, but it's very
difficult to play lots of major chords and make it
sound edgy and cool at the same time. Because basically,
if you make happy music, it becomes cheesy very.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Easily, right, So.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
If you want to be cool, you just make lots
of minor cores and you use certain you know, notes
of the scale, and it's going to sound cool, but
you're not going.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
To have that feel good emotion.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
So the right spot to get that feel good emotion
and at the same time to be cool.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
It's very hard to find.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
It's probably the hardest, and I really feel like this
record is right there.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
And also because of.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Everything that is happening in the world, you know, having
a record that is spreading love and bringing people together
is really more important than ever I.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Think, and it's such a great feel good track. Let's
talk about how this was born with Hypoton and Bonnie Tyler.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
My most important question is how.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Well he came with the idea. He's a very, very
musical person. I love this about him.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
When I reached out to him was through Instagram and
he had very little amount of followers, and I was like,
he was he would play on the keyboard on the
top of famous acapellas, but it would not be produced,
you know, it would just be ideas like this.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
And I saw all of this, I was like, whoa
your medle, This are so good. I love it and
I d M him and I think it was a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Shot David Getti sliding into the d MS.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah, So so I signed him. You know, we talked
a lot about like what sounds to use and and
you know, how to make like an improvement of his
production style and and also I told, Okay, you need
to are you DJs? I know, I'm like, Okay, why
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you need to buy some turntables because I guarantee you
you're gonna start the tour.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
It's like real, Okay, that's crazy. So yeah, and he's.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Really hard working and very talented musically, so yeah, he
had the original idea, and then we worked on the
production together and then I reach out. First it was
just a DJ too, and and you know, like I
started to play this at the end of last summer
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and the whole team of Ushuaia was in love with
the record. And because the reaction of the people every
time I played its completely insane. It's one of the
best reacting record of my DJ set. Even though they
didn't know the records, because you know, there's a lot
of young people, they don't necessarily know the sample, but
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they they were like creaming hands in the year and
the reaction of the people kept being so good that
I was like, okay, let me try to clear the sample.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
It was not so easy.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Then I reached out to her that rectly and she's
she was like so in love with the song, with
the simple idea that she was like, okay, let me
re sing it for you.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Yeah, yeah, it's not a simple but imagine the challenge now,
and this I didn't really realize, was to use her
vocals that were recorded today but give that eighties feeling,
because they had a way to record vocals in the
eighties that was very unique. It's a type of reverb
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that is very typical from the eighties. So, you know,
the challenge after was, Okay, how do we make it
sound like eighties when it's recorded today, you know, and
you have to use, you know, the some of those
typical way to produce vocals from the time, you know,
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like the lexicon, reaverb or you know, like certain type
of techniques that were used at this time. But they
make you know, when you hear eighties vocals, they have
a certain color.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
It's like if you watch nineties movies, there was that
trend of using a lot of blue in the lights
at some point, you know, and those are.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Like trends, but when you don't know how to.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Do it, it.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Takes work, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
So we're like, we spent a lot of time on
making it sound like it was recorded in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Well, you guys did a great job of that.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I real listened to it right before we chatted, just
to see and I was listening, I'm like, yeah, that
doesn't sound like her original vocals, So that is incredible
that she redid it for you.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Congratulations on the smash.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Well, thank you very much. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Now before I let you go, I asked chat shept
to give me a question that David Ghetta has never
been asked before.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
So I gotta test this out, all right.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Okay, let's see because I was asked a lot of questions.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
I know it even said this is a tough request.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Now, if someone could hear only one of your songs
one hundred years from now, what David Ghetta song, would
you want it to be?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Titanium?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Yes, sure. I think it's the best song I've done.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
If I think of the musical quality, the production quality,
the lyrical quality, the vocal quality, and the fact that
see I was not famous before that record.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
You know, I think it clicks a lot of boxes.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Absolutely, And I honestly think one hundred years from now
people are still going to be listening to that because
it is such a classic David Getta, Congratulations on everything.
Thank you so much for your time with us on
America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Thank you for sputting dance music and making it bigger
in the US.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
And speak to you soon.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
America's Dance thirty Counting down the biggest dance songs in
the country.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
America's Dance thirty