Kiss You Up

Album: No Gravity (2010)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song was co-written and produced by Tony Kanal, who is the bassist for the American rock band No Doubt. His musical work outside of the band includes producing and songwriting for his fellow No Doubt bandmate Gwen Stefani, among others.
  • Shontelle explained to Sound Savvy about this collaboration with Kanal: "We wanted to make a song that doesn't sound like anything else. I feel like that is what really establishes you as an artist and really sets you apart. They were just like "No, we know you can sing. We know you have swag. We know you can deliver. But you need to do something that is really going to make people's ears perk up like oh, what's that?". That was what we really were attempting on that one and I'm really happy that the feedback has been so good."

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