![]() We recorded it, it was nice, it sounded really creative and I was pretty excited about it”. If you listen to the original you can still hear there’s not a live base playing in there, that’s actually a beat box technique. So I finished writing the lyrics, it was only 2 verses because it was supposed to be sharp I had the idea to use vocals to actually create like a beat box technique, that’s how that really came about. But I had an idea, I didn’t want to put a beat underneath the song, the idea was for it is to be an interlude to what would be an album, eventually. So I had enough to go on, by the time I got to the studio the concept was already there, and it was just for the lyrical composition. I used to love to write from a metaphoric standpoint, that was like… my thing you know!… so that’s how I came up with the metaphor “Cheerleader” to mean the support system. I was in a taxi heading to the studio and I had the melody in my head early that morning, I was working out the melody in my head and it was so catchy you know… and I was thinking. OMI explains: “About seven years ago I was developing my catalogue at an underground studio. ![]() When interviewed on the web exclusive “How I Wrote the Song,” OMI told the story behind “Cheerleader” before going live on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. ![]() It all started 7 years ago for OMI, an unknown Jamaican artist who woke up in the morning with a melody in his head.
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