He’s contacted us a year later and was like, this is pretty popular and we should release it properly. So he just did the remix and, I guess we call it a soft release and just pushed it out. We just heard “Bird Machine” and we loved it, so we contacted him directly and asked for a remix and he was like, “OK!” We have a lot of really really excellent remixes, so people kind of associate us with that, and more than not the people who we ask will be excited to do them. As a kind of underground indie band who didn’t have that kind of traction or getting heard by that many people, when DJ Snake wanted to throw it a little bit further out there, we were ecstatic because it meant that that song could touch as many people as possible.ĭid he contact you before remixing it? How did that come about? For me, in my heart of hearts, I wanted as many people to hear it as possible and through that have those good feelings and thoughts going through their minds. The message within the song is very much something that a lot of people can relate to. But we did feel that that song had a wider appeal. And now DJ Snake did his own version of it - and that’s the one that’s blowing up. You released the song and then re-released it with the album. The rest of the song somehow managed to go with this random piece of lyric that I came up with.Ĭhart Highlights: Taylor Swift Ties Record as ‘Bad Blood’ Hits Pop Songs Top 10 Then listening to the track, I was kind of humming the sentence “You know you like it but it drives you insane.” I came back and was like, “George, I can’t think of anything else but this and it’s really annoying.” And he was like, “What is it?” And I sang it to him and he was like, “No, that’s it, that’s it.” So it was all kind of pieces that had to get fit together. So that was the premise of the idea of the song. I was writing a song that was trying to embody breaking out of the norm and the backlash that you get, when ultimately they kind of love you for it though they’ll say that they hate you. We were both writing separately at the moment, and he had written a track where he was trying to experiment with not using a kick drum and using a bassline to be significant. Even now, we still do it different every time. That was a time when me and George hadn’t really found our writing formula. What do you remember about the session for the original version of “You Know You Like It”? 15 on the Hot 100, Francis chatted with Billboard about the song’s perplexing success, the mounting trend of DJs and producers taking old songs and giving them a late boost, and the progress of their upcoming sophomore album, releasing in 2016. AlunaGeorge Perform “You Know You Like it” At Billboard Studio