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Rae Sremmurd’s talks about how Formation came to be
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Rae Sremmurd’s Swae Lee was behind the concept of Beyoncé’s “Formation,” Mike WiLL Made-It tells the New Yorker in a lengthy new profile. Will says Swae Lee was credited as a co-writer on the track, which Will produced, having contributed its central lyric—“O.K. ladies, now let’s get in formation”—during a freestyled songwriting session at Coachella. “I’m like, ‘Dog, we got to do that “get in formation” ****,’” Will recalls. “That could be a hard song for the ladies. Some woman-empowerment ****. Like, ‘Ladies, let’s get in line, let’s not just fall for anything.’” They booked a studio, and Swae Lee “ended up just laying it down” over a beat recorded by Mike Will-affiliate A Pluss.
Will later ran into Bey at a hotel-room hangout with LeBron James and the Cavaliers, he says. “And Bey was like, ‘Yo, I like that “formation” idea.’ And I told her what I was thinking about the woman empowerment, and she was like, ‘Yeah I kinda like that idea.’ And she just left it like that.” Although Beyoncé wrote new verses for the song, she built around the central mantra. “We were just thinking about it being a female anthem,” Will added. “Because I knew I just wanted a banger with Beyoncé, like a ‘Single Ladies,’ but I wanted it to be a new kind of chant.”
Will spent a week in the studio with Beyoncé working on the track. She “took this one little idea we came up with on the way to Coachella, put it in a pot, stirred it up, and came with this smash,” he says. “She takes ideas and puts them with her own ideas, and makes this masterpiece. She’s all about collaborating.” He added, “That’s what makes her Beyoncé. Being able to know what she wants. A lot of people don’t know what they want.
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did you really have to make that text so fricking big. hurt my eyes
