When asked about the song, Champion: "It started off with a Kraftwerk sample [it nicks the riff from the German technocrats' Computer Love]. Chris wrote a letter to Ralf [Hutter, Kraftwerk kingpin] in German." Bassist Berryman: "The record company said, 'This has to be the first single.' So we scrapped it, re-recorded it, scrapped it." Martin: "I flew back to New York for a day and mixed it. Then I was able to enjoy it as a song, rather than 1012 ideas that weren't right."
When asked about the song, Champion: "It started off with a Kraftwerk sample [it nicks the riff from the German technocrats' Computer Love]. Chris wrote a letter to Ralf [Hutter, Kraftwerk kingpin] in German." Bassist Berryman: "The record company said, 'This has to be the first single.' So we scrapped it, re-recorded it, scrapped it." Martin: "I flew back to New York for a day and mixed it. Then I was able to enjoy it as a song, rather than 1012 ideas that weren't right."