Calvin Harris



Calvin Harris is a Scottish DJ and record producer. He first grew his interest of electronic dance music at a young age and began to record his first demos in his bedroom as a teenager. A couple of demos he posted on Myspace won him a major label deal in the mid-2000s, and he has since become a big name on the dance music scene. Calvin is known for his energetic, fizzy sounding electronic-dance music and a low, untrained voice that he utilizes on his tracks.


 * I Created Disco (2007)
 * Ready for the Weekend (2009)
 * An untitled third studio album (2012)


 * A Dog Ate My Homework: To buy himself more time to work on his second album, he told his label that he lost the laptop containing his new songs at Heathrow Airport in London.
 * Album Title Drop: “I put on my shoes and I’m ready for the weekend.
 * Boastful Rap: Not quite rapping, but Calvin does boast about how he gets all “The Girls” in one particular track.
 * British Accents: His Scottish accent is quite sexy.
 * The Cover Changes the Gender: Dragonette’s cover of “The Girls”.
 * It even includes a fun nod to the original, in which frontwoman Martina Sorbara notes that she likes “those scrawny, Scottish into pop music but not like sorta like pop dance electro music” boys.
 * After the incident, ITV allegedly issued him a lifetime ban from ever appearing on the show again.
 * Electronic Music
 * Follow the Leader: Ever since “I’m Not Alone” was released to success in the UK, a number of other songs have utilized a similar-sounding (if not the same exact) synth chord progression heard after the song’s chorus. “Yeah 3x” by Chris Brown, "Eyes Wide Shut" by JLS, and “You Make Me Feel…” by Cobra Starship are just a few.
 * To a (perhaps) lesser extreme, “The Rain” features a notable saxophone sample. In 2011, the saxophone seems to have become “hip” again, as heard in songs like “The Edge of Glory” and “Hair” by Lady Gaga, “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” by Katy Perry, “In the Dark” by Dev, and “Mr. Saxobeat” by Alexandra Stan, which were all (curiously enough) released within months of each other.
 * Hold Me: “You Used to Hold Me”
 * Making a Spectacle of Yourself: His pair of blinged-out sunglasses with a similar level of functionality to shutter shades; they've appeared on the covers of both his albums.
 * Non-Appearing Title: “The Rain”, “Burns Night, “5iliconeator”
 * Record Producer: He has most notably produced tracks for Kylie Minogue (“Heart Beat Rock”, “In My Arms”, “Cupid Boy”), Sophie Ellis-Bextor (“Off & On”) Dizzee Rascal (“Holiday” and “Dance Wiv Me”). He also produced Rihanna's "We Found Love" (as well as "Where Have You Been"), with the former becoming one of Rihanna's biggest hits ever, and her longest reigning #1 single to date as well.
 * Title-Only Chorus: “You Used to Hold Me”