Speaking to The BoomBox , Usher explained that he wanted to work with Swedish House Mafia ever since they both performed together at the 2010 American Music Awards . The group agreed to work with Usher , saying " We 'll see if we can come to Atlanta , and if we can , we 'll start to work on some tracks , writing , and moving the ball forward . " In an interview with MTV News , regarding the collaboration with Usher , Steve Angello commented , '' sic '' " We met Usher couple of years ago , we did the AMA 's together and then we came to hang-out in Ibiza . We were in Atlanta and we were all working together for five days . He has always been a great artist and he always knows what he wants so it is a good collaboration all in all . We rather work with somebody who we respect , than to rather work with just big name . " " Euphoria " is a dance-pop and euro-trance song with a length of four minutes and 20 seconds . It was written by Axel Hedfors , Juan Najera , Klas Åhlund , Ryon Lovett , Sebastian Ingrosso , Steve Angello , Terry Lewis and Usher himself . The production of the song was helmed by Hedfors , Angello and Ingrosso under their stage name Swedish House Mafia . Swedish House Mafia together with disc jockey Alesso also co-produced one more song from '' Looking 4 Myself '' entitled " Numb " . According to Lewis Corner of Digital Spy both " Euphoria " and " Numb " " include the DJs ' glimmering synths while he Usher croons in his coolly-controlled falsetto . " Jim Farber of '' The New York Daily News '' wrote that the songs which were produced by Swedish House Mafia propose a possible crossover point from electronica to R&B like Usher ’s biggest hit " Yeah ! " did from crunk to soul . Mark " Exit " Goodchild recorded the song at Silent Sound Studios in Atlanta and Glenwood Place Studios in Burbank , while Jorge Velasco , Kory Aaron and Randy Warnken served as recording assistants . It was mixed by Manny Marroquin at Larrabee Sound Studios , Universal City , with Chris Galland and Delbert Bowers serving as mixing assistants . Natural did the vocal production of the song while the track 's producers Hedfors , Ingrosso and Angello provided the complete instrumentation of " Euphoria "
2010 American Music Awards
American Music Awards of 2010
Euphoria (Usher song)