[ Steve ] No. That would not be appropriate, but they were cool.
[ WM ] So with the current technology, do you think you could have cut that video on an iPhone?
[ Steve ] Probably.( laughing) We shot on 35 millimeter( it might have been 16) but yeah, even pulling all the things together, it was still expensive. Wow!
[ Steve ] No, it was there from the beginning, but if I played you the demo, it sounded almost like a dirge. It was much slower. It was kind of melancholy, and it just sounds very different from what we ended up with.
So we were in the studio, we were working on it and we’ re trying to find kind of a different musical setting for it, and we hit on something. Dale was playing drums and JJ was playing bass. They were both in the studio. Leigh was singing a scratch vocal and Matt Slocum was right behind me playing guitar and it’ s like we hit on this thing and I’ m like,“ Yeah.” And I turn around and Matt is like not into it at all.( laughing) to work on these things and probably went through five or six drafts where I might as well have been his English teacher just saying,“ No, something else, something else.” But to his credit, he kept working it and yeah, it all worked out okay.
[ WM ] Worked out okay? Number one song on radio in the world!
[ Steve ] It’ s crazy, like 10 countries. Yeah, it’ s arguably as popular now as it was when it came out.
[ WM ] And how many movies have used it in their soundtracks? [ WM ] Oh no. [ Steve ] A lot. I lose track.
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[ WM ] Right on. Okay … looking back on the Squint Entertainment record label days …
[ Steve ] Yes.
[ WM ] Tell us what it was like having that fun and hugely successful quirky song“ Kiss Me” by Sixpence None the Richer on your label? I heard that you guys almost didn’ t put it on the record?
[ Steve ] And you know, usually in those situations, it’ s the band’ s record. So if they don’ t want to do it … it’ s like their call. In this case, I said,“ Hey man, just kind of trust me on this one. Let’ s just see how it goes.” And so, Matt was okay to keep trying.
Matt’ s a fantastic songwriter, but the original lyrics were not what they ended up being. And so, Matt let me kind of grade the lyrics and just like cross things out. And I mentioned you need
Sixpence None The Richer- Kiss Me
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