I Would

Album: Believe Acoustic (2013)
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  • Justin collaborated on this mid tempo promise to his lady love in distress with Marcos "Kosine" Palacios and Ernest "Tuo" Clark, who are the production/ writing team known collectively as Da Internz (Rihanna, Big Sean). When Da Internz got the call in 2012 to contribute something for Justin's upcoming project, they had very few clues as to what they were actually writing for. "We knew it was an acoustic album, but at the same time we are the Da Internz so we had to give it a little bit of razzle dazzle. It had to have a little bit of drums on there," Kosine told MTV News. "Justin heard it. He fell in love with it. We even tried to go backwards on the mix, like it's an acoustic album, strip it down. But he was just in love with that original everything so we kept it as is and it made the album."
  • This picks up the pace compared with most other Believe Acoustic tunes. "When we was making the track, we was thinking like hit record, like single, like what attracts the people," Tuo told MTV News. "So we were thinking like straight, Top 40, like rhythmic-type sound for the radio. So we knew we couldn't go too hard or too heavy on the drums, we made sure we stayed between the fine line."
  • The flirty lyrics find Justin singing about pleasing his sweetheart. "He's growing up," Kosine told MTV News. "He's not little Justin that put out 'Baby.' He's getting older. He's having different issues and stuff in life. There's a lot of transition going for him and you want to be able to tap into that and make it as real as possible."

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