Mika described the story behind the song in an interview with the Sun Newspaper , on 2 February 2007 : " I always wanted to write a dance song that was n't a really full dance track , that felt organic . So when I came into producing ' Relax ' I made sure that most of the sounds we used were actually made by real instruments . We used some great session musicians who had worked with Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson . And we picked up the strangest pedal combinations to get all these weird sounds . It 's really effective – you ca n't tell if it 's a full dance track or really laid-back . It feels a bit weird electronically . The organic-ness gives a more classic field to it . So it was one of the harder tracks for me to produce , but also the most rewarding . " During his show '' Stasera Casa Mika '' on the Italian channel Rai 2 he said , as a child , to be scared of the tube then growing up he got used to the noise and people around . Many years later he was in London going to the studio and the train suddenly stopped the lights went out and he felt scared as when he was a child . Then the lights came on again , he was told to leave the train along with the other people . Outside it was police all around : it was 7 July 2005 London bombings . He went home walking and still frightened started singing , once home wrote this song in twenty minutes
7 July 2005 London bombings
7 July 2005 London bombings
Relax, Take It Easy