“He wanted to finish the song, and I was like, ‘So why don’t you just sing it?’ Drew’s like, ‘No way, I’ve never sung.’ But we set up a mic in the bus, cut it, and that’s the vocal we used.” “Closer” co-writer Shaun Frank says that in November 2015, after Taggart made the beat in a 30-minute session with Freddy Kennett of Louis the Child, they did the rest on a tour bus in an hour, peppering in lines about Taggart’s experience hooking up with an ex, then “realizing he actually still hates her,” as Frank explains. “Closer” will be their third title to go double-platinum in 2016, following “Roses” and the euphoric trap-pop gem “Don’t Let Me Down.”Īnd with apparent ease.
For hugely impressive, far less icky stats than what’s on their website, take a look at “Closer” as it rounds its fourth week atop the Billboard Hot 100: five weeks leading the Digital Songs chart with a peak of 208,000 downloads (best for a group since One Direction in August 2015), according to Nielsen Music four weeks dominating Streaming Songs with a 40.5 million-click peak (only the fifth track to reach 40 million in a week) and No. These good-time bros, whose website bio includes the words “17.34 combined inches”(Pall clarifies: “Oh, that’s our penises combined… tip to tip”), are also astoundingly good at making hits. “But you’ll never see us getting carried out of a club. “It’s always ‘work hard, play hard,’ ” says Pall after a pull of vodka. Sitting on the black leather couch next to Taggart: Alex Pall, a 31-year-old with bedhead and neck scruff, whose role is a permutation of DJ, A&R rep (he books the collaborations), art director and bon vivant. He’s sitting in a massage chair in the venue’s greenroom, sipping tequila from a red cup and chewing on beef jerky. My mom’s going to hate reading that,” says Drew Taggart, 26, “but she already knows.” He’s the baby-faced half of the duo - the producer, songwriter and, increasingly, singer of The Chainsmokers.
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