I'm Not Alone

Album: Ready for the Weekend (2009)
Charted: 1
Play Video

Songfacts®:

  • This melancholy ballad, which transforms into a dancefloor bomb, was the lead single from Harris' second album. Harris commented to the Metro newspaper April 6, 2009: "I like its unpredictability." The Scottish DJ/producer added that he, "wanted to make a track that sounded like 'stadium dance music' – like Faithless but with a singing bit more like Snow Patrol. My main objective is to make everything louder and literally blow people away."
  • Harris explained to the Metro newspaper: "It's about feeling too old to go clubbing – I'm 25 now and it does feel a lot older than when I was having my first hit aged 22."
  • Harris explained to The Sun April 10, 2009 the source of this song's Balearic sound: "I just like playing around and experimenting. It retains some of the features of the old stuff and also introduces something new. I really got into old Ibiza songs - classic euphoric dance numbers - by going on YouTube and looking up old videos."
  • This was Harris' first solo UK #1. Nine months previously he'd been a featured artist and co-writer on Dizzee Rascal's chart topper "Dance Wiv Me."
  • This song contrasts lyrics expressing self-doubt set against a monumental rave riff. Harris explained in publicity materials: "The whole track's a light and shade thing, two styles put together. I find it quite hard to write a happy-happy lyric now, for some reason. I don't know why that is, to be honest with you. Maybe it's staying in a room for a huge amount of time on your own, and that's reflected in the lyrics!"

Comments

Be the first to comment...

Editor's Picks

Janis Ian

Janis IanSongwriter Interviews

One of the first successful female singer-songwriters, Janis had her first hit in 1967 at age 15.

Lace the Music: How LSD Changed Popular Music

Lace the Music: How LSD Changed Popular MusicSong Writing

Starting in Virginia City, Nevada and rippling out to the Haight-Ashbury, LSD reshaped popular music.

Jimmy Jam

Jimmy JamSongwriter Interviews

The powerhouse producer behind Janet Jackson's hits talks about his Boyz II Men ballads and regrouping The Time.

Dar Williams

Dar WilliamsSongwriter Interviews

A popular contemporary folk singer, Williams still remembers the sticky note that changed her life in college.

Commercials

CommercialsFact or Fiction

Was "Ring Of Fire" really used to sell hemorrhoid cream?

Reverend Horton Heat

Reverend Horton HeatSongwriter Interviews

The Reverend rants on psychobilly and the egghead academics he bashes in one of his more popular songs.