Alicia Keys wrote “If I Ain’t Got You” when she heard about Aaliyah’s tragic death.
In the second verse of the song, Taggart makes a direct shoutout to Blink-182:"Stay and play that Blink-182 song / That we beat to death in Tucson."and Dashboard Confessional — all these guys who just kind of tell it how it is.
"And when it came down to writing"Closer", the Chainsmokers took that inspiration and let it flow into their lyrics. Taggart:"I want to do a song kind of very visual that's an unsexy sex scene, and I want to talk to someone that I'm [not] in love with, [but that] I'm indifferent to. The song's a culmination of pretty much all my ex-girlfriends and all my old friends.
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