2014Released
4:30

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Interesting facts and trivia about I Was a Fool - Monsieur Adi Remix. By Songfacts®.

This piano-powered song finds Tegan lamenting a difficult relationship that she did her best to see through. She explained in a track-by-track video: "I repeatedly packed my bags and didn't leave, I just stood still [and] that relationships like mine don't get fixed, they just stay the same."

After sharing the song's demo with six different producers, Tegan finally decided to go with Greg Kurstin, which is how they ended up working with the Californian helmsman on Hearthrob. She recalled to Under The Radar: "When Greg Kurstin heard the demo, which was just a piano part off the top, an acoustic guitar, and some synths, basically, very stripped-down, he was the only producer out of all of the producers we talked to who was like, 'This is a pop song, a huge pop single ballad.' I was like, 'What?' It's awesome that he heard that.
When I wrote the song, I wanted to write something like Rihanna's 'Umbrella.' Something really sad and kind of fu--ed, but something that everybody would relate to. So that's how we decided to work with Greg, because I felt like he really got me and got what I was trying to go for."

Both the Quin twins wrote this, with Sara penning the bridge. Tegan told Under the Radar: "There were eight or 16 bars of silence in the song - I can't remember what the number was - that I'd just left for her. She called me and was like, 'That is impossible! You need to put a guitar or something in there.' So I ended up just using the same chords from the chorus, and she sang overtop of it. That was cool."

Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of I Was a Fool - Monsieur Adi Remix.
C♯Key
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
103BPM

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Vapor/Warner Records
© 2014 Warner Records Inc.
℗ 2014 Warner Records Inc.

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