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An email we almost just sent to Calvin Harris

  • November 25, 2013
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This has to be one of the most offensive emails we have ever nearly sent, and believe us we've nearly sent some pretty 'choice' emails in our time.

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What's your favourite bit?

  • The bit where we start picking holes in someone's new single?
  • The fact that we do so as the single in question sits quite happily at Number One on iTunes?
  • The fact that we admit to dicking around with the song because of course we and only we (and not the thousands of people who've worked on, A&Rd, marketed, DJd,  danced to and spent a quid on this song) know how to make it 'better'?
  • The offer — which when we typed it we meant with all sincerity — to PayPal £12.99 to someone estimated by Forbes to be the world's highest-paid DJ, pulling in $46m in just twelve months?
  • Or perhaps the cheerily pre­sump­tu­ous signoff of 'Cheers!' — no name, no apology for the strange request. 'Cheers!'

Having said all that, we are def­in­itely right.

If you take out the first bit where the song does indeed kicks off, you get a far better 'narrative arc'.

See for yourself (although due to some extra faffing at the start of the song's video the bit in question is between 1:16 and 1:46 in the YouTube window below).

If you've ever almost sent a grossly offensive email to a popstar please do get in touch.

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