Luke Steele

You helped co-produce and co-write a song for Beyonce’s song “Rather Die Young.” Was that a separate thing?
That was a totally separate thing, I wanted to work with Jeff Bhasker. He’s Kanye West’s music director and a big pop writer and producer. We got together and, that was the first thing we did was write that song together. Yeah, Beyonce was cutting a record so we sent it over and it just happened to be right. I remember writing the lyrics from a clear point of view talking about Jay-Z… “You drive too fast / You smoke too much / You’re my James Dean.

 

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Steele also found himself working on the new Beyonce album '4' with producer Jeff Bhasker.

He added:

We both wrote the track 'Rather Die Young'. We sent it over to her and she loved it and that was that. It went straight on the record.

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