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The #3 single places will.i.am inside an interwoven performance and shared writing credit.
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The Script Feat. Will.i.am
Why we feature this artist The writing partnership inside Hall of Fame Hall of Fame gives will.i.am a place within the Script's songwriting as well as the performance. The original 2012 credits name William Adams alongside the band's writers, making the collab…
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- Ireland, United States
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- Pop rock, hip-hop
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Why we feature this artist
The writing partnership inside Hall of Fame
Hall of Fame gives will.i.am a place within the Script's songwriting as well as the performance. The original 2012 credits name William Adams alongside the band's writers, making the collaboration more closely integrated than a brief detached guest passage.
The #3 recording
The single introduced the #3 album period, with Danny O'Donoghue and Mark Sheehan among the producers and writers. Andrew Frampton, Jimbo Barry and Steve Kipner also appear within the original production credits. That studio setting supports a song designed around a steadily widening melodic statement.
Encouragement passed between voices
The performances can enter around one another, making the central idea feel shared rather than delivered as one uninterrupted speech. The piano-led foundation gives those entrances a clear point of reference, while the growing refrain provides a place for them to meet. The record's anthemic quality depends on that exchange. Its scale comes partly from repetition, but the different vocal accents keep the repeated encouragement from sounding like a single voice talking at a distance.