
Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks
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The Sound of Whistling
Bjorna had a piano piece which sounded like a jazz, a Duke Ellington thing. I was working on a jazz album at the same time, and I just thought it sounded too much like Duke Ellingtons. So we took out the chords, made it more clean, and made it feel more pop. Whistling seemed like a good way of presenting a melody without making it either that way or the other way. It was a placeholder. The idea was to use it as a riff, but not whistling. And remember it was to talk about synth or keyboard or... Alright, some other instrument instead of the whistling.
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