WAKE ME UP by AVICII

 

In the middle of 2013, the song ‘Wake Me Up’ was released by a Swedish DJ named Tim Bergling or famously known as Avicii and had become a hot sensation and mesmerized people all over ever since. The song spread like wildfire to every corner of the world and was played on repeat on all platforms. On YouTube itself, ‘Wake Me Up’ has been played over 9 billion times. The singer and writer for this incredible song, Aloe Blacc stated to the reporters that the song was inspired by true events that had happened in his life.

       ‘Wake Me Up’ comes as a very nostalgic song to us these days, as we are tuning in to it, we could understand the meaning of the song. Listening to it makes you want to enjoy life and cherish it wholeheartedly because it is something that happens only once. Imagine yourself roaming the streets at night with your friends by your side as this specific music plays along, it truly makes you sing along with the lyric, “So wake me up when it is all over”. The song speaks so much of our youth life, our rebellious state. The pumped up feeling you get as you let the bass beat through your body, the little dance we danced when this song run through our headphone wires.

       The singer and songwriter, Aloe Blacc stated that the birth of the song title ‘Wake Me Up’ come across him as he was on the road thinking about how great of a life he had lived, how it all felt like a dream and someone should wake him up when it is all over, hence ‘Wake Me Up’.  The song was originally made to be an acoustic but then Avicii tipped in and remixed the song into what we know now as the sensational dance electronica song we listen to today. Other than Avicii and Aloe Blacc, American guitarist Mike Einzigler also played a part in writing the song. The song was written in only 2 hours at Einzigler’s house. 

         The song was made public in June 2019 and had achieved the number one spot in more than 20 countries like Germany, Sweden, The United Kingdom and so much more. It peaked at number 4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 at the time and today it has over than 1 billion streams on Spotify. To make things even better, ‘Wake Me Up’ sold over 4 million copies in United States that year only and is the first electronica song that achieved that much of sales.

        Unfortunately, Avicii passed away over suicide back in 2018. Though he may not be here anymore, we could still listen to his songs every now and then. His musical masterpieces would still be cherished, today, tomorrow, and possibly forevermore.