Artist of the Week: Avicii (Swedish)

The Swedish DJ says the lyrics of his hit, 'Wake
Me Up', was penned by Aloe Blacc in 'a couple of hours.'
Swedish DJ Tim Bergling a.k.a. Avicii
reached international success with his 2011's
single, "Levels". He has returned with another
hit, "Wake Me Up", that gives him the similar
success as it is currently topping several charts
across the world.
Avicii worked with Aloe Blacc in the track,
which interestingly has a taste of country in it.
"When I was with Mike Einziger from Incubus,
we came up with the chord progression and
the melody for 'Wake Me Up' but no real
lyrics," Avicii recently said of how he ended up
working with Blacc.
"None of us sing and we really needed to get
that demo down and the only person I knew
that lived in LA was Aloe, so I called him and
he was free," he continued.
Avicii chose the right guy. He was impressed
by the fact that Blacc added lyrics to his
masterpiece in hours. "Lyrics come really easy
to him so he wrote them in a couple of hours
and we finished the track," Avicii added.
The 23-year-old artist is currently gearing up
to release his debut album, " True". When asked
what to expect from his upcoming album,
which comes out on September 17, he said,
"It's really hard to say what you can expect
from 'True'."
"Every track is different, it's kind of like a
mixture between other genres and a lot of
other influences together with House music
and electronic music and stuff that I've been
playing around with. I've worked with so many
different collaborators on this project," he
added.
Avicii has also revealed that Swedish singer
Salem Al Fakir, Imagine Dragons ' vocalist Dan
Reynolds, " American Idol " alum Adam Lambert
and Los Angeles duo Blondfire will make guest
appearances in his first album with Universal
Records.