Bonnie McKee - Hot City (aka Epic Album)

[T2P]

10 hours ago, Cypher said:

I think I missed part of the conversation  Link me to the Bonnie track please!

Bonnie McKee - untitled, edited file

[Cypher]

38 minutes ago, T2P said:

Bonnie McKee - untitled, edited file

I totally forgot about this! Dev's voice is def on the chorus, but the history of this song is quite long. To the best of my memory...

1. The original version of "Don't Hurt It" was written by Dev and The Cataracs during their writing camp in Central America back in 2010. The demo was produced at The Indie-Pop Sweat Shop. At this point, it was a solo song with fully original verses from Dev only. (A slightly sped-up version of this version exists and was created as a proof of concept)
2. Timbaland came into the picture when the song was with Manny Marroquin for mixing at Larrabee Studios in LA. Timbaland wrote an original verse and layered it on the original production demo to see how it would fit.
3. Timbaland ended up reproducing the song slightly, which is the version that would eventually be released on the US version of Dev's debut album, The Night the Sun Came Up.
4. During the same time as #2, The Cataracs were tapped to remix KPop group Girls' Generation's "Bad Girl." Since "Don't Hurt It" was effectively sitting on a shelf during this time, they took Dev's vocals and spliced it into their remix of "Bad Girl."

While I don't have confirmed info on when Bonnie came into the picture, I can surmise that she probably got a hold of the first demo and tried her hand at writing new verses for Dev (which explains why Bonnie's vocals are produced in the Dev-esque style). I say this because the instrumental production on Bonnie's version is the same as Dev's solo and Timbaland's first, which both use the original production from The Indie-Pop Sweat Shop. All this to say, Bonnie's version probably came before Timbaland got involved, but it didn't go anywhere because Dev ended up going with Timbaland's version.