Will.i.am on how U2 inspired Black Eyed Peas’ ‘I Gotta Feeling’: “I wrote the chorus for them”

The musician also revealed that he'd been influenced by Earth, Wind & Fire and Talking Heads Will.i.am has revealed that U2 were the inspiration behind Black Eyed Peas ‘ hit song ‘I Gotta Feeling’, with the musician saying he “wrote the chorus for them”.

While appearing as a guest on Nile Rodgers ‘ Deep Hidden Meaning on Apple Music 1 last weekend, the ‘Let’s Get It Started’ hitmaker opened up about the creation behind the group’s 2009 track. “ David Guetta had this song called ‘Love Is Gone’..

. So he sends me the remix to ‘Love Is Gone’ and that is the beat to ‘I Gotta Feeling’,” he recalled. “I approached it like, ‘Ok, if I could approach the chorus what would Earth, Wind & Fire do? What would U2 do? What would Talking Heads do all at the same time?'” He continued: “The chorus is like an Earth, Wind & Fire type of vibe, it’s very Maurice White.

Then the ‘ Woo-hoo ‘ is very Bono , U2. As a matter of fact, I wrote the chorus for U2 because at the time I was working on [U2’s 2009 album] ‘No Line On The Horizon’ at Olympic Studios in the UK. “At the time ‘Beautiful Day’ was like, ‘Oh man, if they have another song like ‘Beautiful Day’ that’d be awesome.

’ And so I did “ I gotta feeling that tonight’s going to be a good night ” as a response to that, wrote it from the perspective of Maurice White and then the Talking Heads’ ‘Psycho Killer’. And so that “ Psycho Killer qu’est-ce que c’est? �.