The story behind Maroon 5's "Daylight"

[saethor]

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/steve_duin/index.ssf/2012/12/steve_duin_lakeridge_grad_sam.html

Found this article about the guy who wrote "Daylight" and how it ended up as a Maroon 5 song!

He talks a little bit about Max..

I didn't know who he (Levine) was, which is crazy," Sam Martin said. "But Max Martin? I knew he was special. The modern god of writing catchy songs."

[Rebecca]

Thank you saethor, the article is really interesting, I love reading about how songs were started. Daylight is a great song.

[Joshua]

Wonderful story. Thinking about it coming to him after waking in the night during a storm makes it all the more awesome!

[Axel]

Fantastic article. These are my favourite ones. Thanks for sharing it. I think my mind would implode if I sat there with Max, Justin, Adam. Holy crap.

[Joshua]

What I'd like to know is how it sounded before Max got his hands on it. He seems to step into a lot of songs as the final writer, changing and adjusting things. The article mentions he worked on the bridge, but my guess is he would've put his magic on the whole song... it's too Max-like to not be the case.

[Axel]

if he wrote the bridge then that's enough to warrant him a co-writer credit. I think this is what makes a great producer: to recognize the potential of a song even if it's in unpolished state and to then help unleash it. Max and Luke seem to excel in that area.

[LG]

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/steve_duin/index.ssf/2012/12/steve_duin_lakeridge_grad_sam.html

Found this article about the guy who wrote "Daylight" and how it ended up as a Maroon 5 song!

He talks a little bit about Max..

I didn't know who he (Levine) was, which is crazy," Sam Martin said. "But Max Martin? I knew he was special. The modern god of writing catchy songs."

Nice story! Cool for him, that they simply took the idea instead of a finished track. 

[Joshua]

Here's the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N17FXwRWEZs

I hope there's a shorter edit in the works, just so music video channels don't avoid playing it.