Nate Ruess originally wrote this with Sam Means, the fun. frontman's partner in his previous band, The Format. He recalled in a Reddit AMA: "The original melody sounded a lot like the Kenny Roger's song 'The Gambler.' And so we always called it that. And fortunately, that forced me to write the current melody of the song."
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