Chords for The Kooks: Let's Go Sunshine

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What's the meaning behind Let's Go Sunshine?
What's the meaning behind Let's Go Sunshine?
It's quite loose.
I mean, I really wanted the title to be something _ uplifting and kind of upbeat and it was [C] going
to be like Let Go Sunshine, you know, because it's [Em] kind of letting go of _ [Gb] some of the baggage
and things like that.
But then we wanted to [Bb] be kind of [G] _
unashamedly what we are and I think that Let's Go Sunshine
It sort of [Am] sums up the record, you know, it's a _ _ _ _ [G]
forward thinking, _ positive record and I
think [Am] that's what we wanted to say and if [G] you call us Sunshine Pop, you can call us
Sunshine Pop, that's fine with me.
I think probably [Am] the first song I wrote that was fractured and dazed was [G]
sort of _ 2016 or
something like that.
We've [Am] kind of gone in the studio without any tunes to try and kind of [C] work on a new record
and those sessions [D] didn't really figure out.
[G] So we kind of shelved it [C] because _ we just felt like we weren't really _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ making the record we
wanted to make.
And so [Em] we [Ab] went [G] to America and we met a guy [D] called Brian McPheesen who ended up producing
the record and once we [C] clicked with him, _ [Em] it's probably really [D] when the album started and
we started to really crystallize the album.
[C] There was a lot of writing sessions [Em] before making the album so [G] I was going back and forth
from London to LA quite a bit and Brandon brought in Chris Seaford who we ended up [Am] writing
quite a few songs with and so it was kind of dream team, you know, _ [G] _ Chris and I really
_ _ _ [Em] _ clicked songwriting wise [Am] quite instantly and [G] we kind of started instantly finishing each
other's sentences [Am] a bit which was a bit wild.
We would do [G] these writing sessions and then I'd go back and play the songs to the guys
[Am] and be like, what do you guys think?
And then once we had [C] a bunch of songs that we thought were really good then [G] _
we'd get
in the studio together.
_ _ [C] It's a great cycle to make music and then go out and play it live [Bm] and it's two different
_ worlds really.
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Obviously the symbiosis, you want to make a record or you want to [A] play live, that is
a [D] big consideration for us.
_ So in the studio [C] we do talk about how we receive live, [Em] we do think about it [D] _ and so they're
not completely separate.
You don't go in the studio and be [Am] like, forget your live [D] side. _ _
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_ _ Musically it's like a kind [Am] of modern take on a [G] 60s beat band kind of thing so there's
that kind of theme to it [Am] and we're quite unashamed of sort of pointing to our influences in that way.
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There's a bit of coming of age on the record, you know, loss of innocence.
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We definitely tried to show [G] that with the artwork and with the lyrics.
We've learnt so [Am] much about how to make records and this one was one that we _ [G] really took the
reins on as a band and I think that shows on the record.
I think that [E] _
there's a [Am] _ maturity [Em] and it [C] is playful, you've got to play with your music.
[D] I think that's one of the [Bm] things that we do is we try and not take ourselves too seriously
and we haven't [C] lost that.
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_ [C] But [D] yeah, I think on the record when people listen to it you're going to hear [C] a more considered,
more [Em]
orchestrated [D] version of our band, yeah. _ _ _
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