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And Finally
Keane thought Spiralling was “a bad joke”
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 31 March 2009
So, here’s a little insight into Keane’s songwriting process, and an explanation of why so many of their songs are so tedious. Pianist and main songwriter Tim Rice-Oxley has revealed that the first time he played the best bloody song they ever came up with, ‘Spiralling’, to the rest of the band, they all thought it was “a bad joke”.
Rice-Oxley told Bang Showbiz: “I played the demo to the others and they didn’t think it was very good. It felt a bit scary, I suppose. It took a while to convince everyone that it wasn’t just a bad joke. But when it came together, it made us braver about everything else. I wanted something that incorporated our love of American pop, R&B and hip hop. The big snare sound is from Michael Jackson’s ‘Man In The Mirror’ and the song was inspired by ‘When Doves Cry’ by Prince and that song ‘Magic Dance’ from ‘Labyrinth’ which I love”.
