Will.i.am has revealed that U2 were the inspiration behind Black Eyed Peas' hit song I Gotta Feeling and says he "wrote the chorus for them".
Speaking on Nile Rodgers' Deep Hidden Meaning on Apple Music 1, which will air on 10 August, the 49-year-old musician opened up about creating the band's catchy 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 said.
"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 added: "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," he said.
I Gotta Feeling hit the right notes with fans and spent 14 consecutive weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, impressively making it the longest-running Number One single of 2009.
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