Calvin Harris and Rag'n'Bone Man reveal how their huge collab came about 🙌

'Lovers In A Past Life' is out now

Calvin Harris, Sam Thompson and Rag'n'Bone Man
Author: Anna Sky MagliolaPublished 22nd Feb 2024

Following the release of their hit 'Lovers In A Past Life', Calvin Harris and Rag'n'Bone Man joined Sam Thompson on Hits Radio to talk about their hit, and working together.

This is the second song the pair have released together, the first being 'Giant' five years ago, and Rag'n'Bone revealed how their second collaboration came about. And there was NO sliding into DMs involved...

Speaking to Sam, he said: "It was kind of written as a sort of love ballad, I kind of phoned my guy at the label and was like: 'oh, maybe we should think about some different producers', and the words he said to me was: 'Well we did a good one with Calvin before'. And I was like 'good point' and the rest is history."

Calvin then explained what he thought when he first received the song, saying: "They sent me the song, the demo, or whatever it was, very complete one, do you know what I mean and it was amazing!

"So, easiest job in the world for me, so I'm like, this is class, like objectively it's just a great song. But, all I had to do was stick some drums on it and a guitar, and mix it, and then that was it! Which is, you know, a lot less than I do for most songs. So it was like a gift from the gods."

During the interview, Calvin also opened up about what it was like when he receives song for people hoping to collaborate with him. He explained: "When you get songs just sent to you out of the blue, they're very rarely good songs, you know what I mean?"

Rag'n'Bone Man added: "Sometimes people will come to you with 'this song was meant for such and such, we thought you might like it', and I was like, 'that means you sent it them, they said 'no', and I'm like the B option'. And I'm nobody's B option!"

'Lovers In A Past Life' is out now and you can hear it on Hits Radio.

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