Paul McCartney collaborated with OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder on this cheekily titled song. In addition to OneRepublic's hit songs such as "Apologize" and " Counting Stars," Tedder has also written tunes for the likes of Beyoncé ("Halo"), Adele ("Rumour Has It"), Leona Lewis ("Bleeding Love") and Ellie Goulding ("Burn"). So when Egypt Station producer Greg Kurstin suggested he work with Tedder on some songs, the Beatle legend knew he had a good track record.
Speaking to DIY Magazine, McCartney explained that he listened to a lot of songs Tedder worked on (especially Beyoncé's "Halo"), and liked what he heard. He then contacted the American producer by phone who asked him what he hoped to come out of their collaboration. When Macca replied "A hit," Tedder responded, "Yeah! Now you're talking my language! The world loves a hit!'"
McCartney recalled the story of writing this near-the-knuckle love song with Tedder, "We were just thinking of ideas and little pieces of melody and chords and the song just came together bit by bit. And then I would try and make some kind of sense of the story. So it was like, 'Come on baby now. Talk about yourself. Tell the truth, let me get to know you' and basically I wanna know how you feel, you make me wanna go out and steal. I just want it for you." "So that was the basic idea," he continued, "and it developed from there... sort of a love song, but a raunchy love song. There you go - fuh you."
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