Chords for Alice Merton - MINT in the making (part 2)

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_ _ Hey guys, I'm Alice Merton and today we get to visit the [E] Funkhaus studio where [C] I did [Ab] my
song No Roots with [D] this handsome man [Ab] over here, Nico Rapscher.
[G] _ He's my producer and he produced the whole [Cm] EP.
The collaboration with Nico Rapscher was [C] _
probably the best thing that could have happened to
me for this album.
I really love the special voice and I really felt [G] the power in [Fm] the song.
That's [Ab] also why No Roots [Cm] came out of us because I think I already [Bb] felt the amazing [Fm] power in
Alice _ and [Ab] _ I _ [Cm] really thought she's a very special [Bb] artist.
So [Cm] yeah, the first song we wrote was No [Bb] Roots actually.
Yeah, very first [Ab] song.
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[Cm] So when we wrote the No Roots EP, [G] we [C] were basically from the morning, [Ebm] so from [Ab] 11 in
the [G] morning till [Cm] 3 in the morning.
Actually, that was like two [Ab] weeks of a lot [Eb] of night [Cm] sessions.
He is such an incredible producer _ and our styles just [Ab] really complemented each other.
[Gm] So [Cm] I would claim an idea [Ab] and musically he would [Gm] suggest so [Cm] many different kinds of arrangements
and we'd sit there [Ab] for hours and [Gm] hours _ [Cm]
just trying things out, trying different [Fm] bass lines.
The best things are always [Ab] accidents.
It's true.
Even on [Cm] the new songs, sometimes Nico in the background, [Bb] you'll hear like a whoo!
And then [Fm] I hear that and I'm like, let's put that on [Ab] the song.
_ Like, for example, that one [Cm] moment when it goes [Bb] dun dun dun dun dun and I was sitting
on the [Gm] couch and you just were dragging [N] the note.
I'm like, that's it.
You're like, what are you [B] talking about?
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[Gbm] I think it was like two in the [Gb] morning.
I'm like, that's it. _
And we dragged the note because we were looking [B] for something to put in the bridge and we
[G] tried guitar and [B] different stuff and then we just went with the dragging because it
was like a complete coincidence.
It was an accident basically.
And I don't think both of us or either of us thought that at the time No Roots would
be the one.
No, not at all.
Because I get asked a lot in interviews like, oh, [Em] did you plan to write a hit?
Like, did you come out of the session [Gb] and be like, this is a hit?
And I'm like, no, [Bm] none of us.
We're just like, oh, we like this beat.
This is fun. _
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Starting our own label [Bbm] was probably one of the [Gb] _
coolest [Bbm] but also hardest things we've
[Gb] ever done.
Me and [Db] my friend Paul [Ab] started it two years ago when no label was prepared to sign [Bbm] us.
We came to [Gb] Berlin and we were [Bbm] actually hoping to work with a major label because [Gb] that's
what our ambition was.
[Bbm] We wanted to build a team [Gb] of people who wanted to work [Db] with a song.
[Ab] But unfortunately, we didn't find a label that said, [Bbm] hey, these songs are cool.
We like them the way they are.
[Gb] We want to market this.
They were always kind of [Db] like, yeah, we're interested.
_ [Bbm] _ But we think there should be, _ [Gb] we think you should do some other sessions with [Db] other producers.
We think you should [Bbm] _ _ change No Roots a little bit or you should change Hit The [Gb] Ground Running.
_ And we're [Db] like, well, _ if they're [Bbm] just playing around, why don't we just do it ourselves?
We called it Paper Planes [Gb] because I guess with paper planes, you never know [Db] where they'll land.
They [Ebm] can either soar through the sky or they [Gb] can _ miserably [Db] sink into the ground and not
[Abm] take flight at all.
_ [Ebm] Starting our [Gb] own label was really _ [Db] hard and _
[Ab] I don't regret it ever since then because _
[Bbm] this gives me _ [Gb] the possibility [Db] of [Bbm] being creatively free.
[Gb] Even when we got turned [Db] down from a lot of the [Bbm] labels, it's like this, [Gb] _ _ [Db] not [Ab] anger, but
kind of _ this drive [Bbm] that I want to put into [Gb] music to show [Bbm] people that you don't need a major label.
[Gb] You just need, [Bbm] I guess, to have a vision [Gb] of what the music [Db] should sound like.
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