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"Savan Kotecha is the lyrical wizard behind One Direction&amp;#039;s What Makes You Beautiful. He&amp;#039;s also written for Bieber, Cher Lloyd, Britney, JLS and Usher, and to be honest, we&amp;#039;d quite fancy a piece of that pie.  In between talking to him about Cher Lloyd&amp;#039;s American fun and the rude bits on One Direction&amp;#039;s new album, we tried to trick him into revealing his songwriting secrets, so we too can reap the rewards of wordsmithery.  So Savvo, how the frick do you write a song then? Do you start with word? Music? A theme? A mood board? Usually we do melody first. We&amp;amp;rsquo;ll maybe have a title so we at least know where we&amp;amp;rsquo;re going, and that&amp;amp;rsquo;s how it all starts.  Right. Then what? For the past year or so I&amp;amp;rsquo;ve been collecting melodies on my phone and stuff like that. Everyone has ideas, so we&amp;amp;rsquo;ll just sit in a room and bang our heads against the wall and see what feels good. It&amp;amp;rsquo;s all about making sure a pop song&amp;amp;rsquo;s melodies are tight, catchy and good &amp;amp;ndash; sometimes it takes weeks just for one song, just because we want to make sure it&amp;amp;rsquo;s all tight.  Well, you have a fairly reasonable track record so you&amp;amp;rsquo;re clearly doing something right. I hope so!   So are you one of those people who walks around with a little notebook and starts frantically scribbling in it when you &amp;amp;ldquo;feel inspired&amp;amp;rdquo;?  Yeah! What Makes You Beautiful was actually written about my wife. One morning when I was going to the studio, she was like &amp;amp;lsquo;Ugh, I look so ugly today&amp;amp;rsquo; and I was like &amp;amp;lsquo;Nooo!&amp;amp;rsquo; &amp;amp;ndash; my wife&amp;amp;rsquo;s this beauuutiful Swedish girl, and the &amp;amp;lsquo;you don&amp;amp;rsquo;t know you&amp;amp;rsquo;re beautiful / that&amp;amp;rsquo;s what makes you beautiful&amp;amp;rsquo; line popped into my head.  Did she flip her hair and make you overwhelmed?  I made her do that after. I was like &amp;amp;lsquo;let me just play with your face a little bit.&amp;amp;rsquo;   &amp;amp;nbsp;      brightcove.createExperiences();   Bet she loved that.  Yeah! So that song took a while, we got the melody in like, two days, but we were changing up the lyrics, changing some of the lines around and stuff like that. But that&amp;amp;rsquo;s what happens, you go about your day and hear a tune in your head and record it &amp;amp;ndash;&amp;amp;nbsp; you become the weird person on the plane or in the grocery line singing into your phone.   Does this mean there&amp;amp;rsquo;s stuff on One Direction&amp;amp;rsquo;s second album about your genius baby?  No not this time! He was born in the middle of writing the album. I thought &amp;amp;lsquo;let&amp;amp;rsquo;s get some&amp;amp;rsquo; was probably as far as I could take it, rather than &amp;amp;lsquo;you had my baby...&amp;amp;rsquo; Fair point. Savan explains the rude bits from Live While We&amp;#039;re Young Savan on Cher Lloyd&amp;#039;s American fun and his GENIUS CHILD "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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