Not content with producing Emeli Sandé’s 'Our Version of Events’, the biggest selling album of 2012 (and 2013 so far), Naughty Boy has now released his own LP ‘Hotel Cabana’.
Here the producer, real name Shahid Khan, discusses the story behind each song and the concept of the album exclusively on Telegraph.co.uk.
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'Hotel Cabana', which features among others Emeli Sandé, Tinie Tempah, Wretch 32, Ed Sheeran and Gabrielle, is a concept album with a narrative and a number of beautifully realised musical metaphors.
“The melodies, the hooks, the vocals - that’s the most important thing for me,” says Khan, “We’re in a time when people are afraid to make real music. But the people want to hear something fresh and amazing.”
For the Introtrack, Khan asked Tinie Tempah to imagine he was working on the front desk.
Sandé also features on the Intro, as well as ’Wonder’, which is described as the insiders’ preview of Hotel Cabana. She also appears on Pluto, Lifted, as well as Daddy, one of her breakthrough singles and one of the first tracks Khan and Sandé wrote together.
Not to be forgetten are Gabrielle, who sings Hollywood, a song about glorious pasts, Wretch 32 and George the Poet, the album’s narrator.
Naughty Boy’s previous song, ‘La la la’, is the biggest-selling single by a British artist this year and has had in excess of 41 million video views.
His new single ‘Lifted’ is features lavish strings, trip hop beats and Emeli Sandé’s uplifting vocals.
You can hear what Hotel Cabana has in store for you below:
Hotel Cabana full track listing:
• Act I (feat. George The Poet)
• Welcome to Cabana (feat. Emeli Sandé & Tinie Tempah)
• Wonder (feat. Emeli Sandé)
• Think about It (feat. Wiz Khalifa & Ella Eyre)
• Hollywood (feat. Gabrielle)
• Act II (feat. George The Poet)
• La La La (feat. Sam Smith)
• One Way (feat. Mic Righteous & Maiday)
• Pluto (feat. Emeli Sandé & Wretch 32)
• So Strong (feat. Chasing Grace)
• No One’s Here To Sleep (feat. Bastille)
• Lifted (feat. Emeli Sandé)
• Top Floor (feat. Ed Sheeran)
• Epilogue (feat. George The Poet)
Naughty Boy's album 'Hotel Cabana' is out now.
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