Two or three months later I get this email saying, “what doesn’t kill you” is a freaking smash! My head was in another place, the song is alright, nobody really says anything after the session, fine. David sits down and starts playing some chords, Jorgen looks at me and says, ‘What’s your concept?’ We go through a bunch- no, no, no-then I say, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger?” and Jorgen’s all, “THAT’S IT.” We wrote the song, I left the session Jorgen cut the demo, and I didn’t think anything more of it at the time. I was driving to the session and telling my mom, ‘I’m turning around, I can’t do it, I can’t do it, I can’t do it! I need to go, I need to go!’ then, my Mom said, “Ali, what doesn’t kill you is going to make you stronger and its not going to kill you” As cliché and cheesy as that sounds, I swear-I have my mother as my witness– I typed it in my notes, the whole time thinking to myself “Ugh, this is cheesy, Jorgen is not gonna like it.”Īnd I go into the studio, and David Gamson comes out with some coconuts and some straws like, he’s all free and happy go lucky. My mom was in town staying with me at the time, and I had been up all night before hysterical. My boyfriend at the time had not been answering any of my calls and one of my friends told me that they had seen him out with another girl. I was in the worst mood I’ve ever been in. We wrote it in Long Beach at David Gamson’s studio.

When and where did you and your co-writers write “Stronger?” How long did it take to come together?

Then I go to Pinkberry and go home, have a glass of red wine for a nightcap and go to sleep. Nine times out of ten, at the end of the day, I will go meet Livvi Franc for sushi and we talk about our sessions. The sessions vary it could be a writing session or an artist session, or writing camp, or meeting with different industry people. Then I usually head straight to a session or a meeting. Sometimes I make it there in the car and turn around and go back and sometimes I make it up the hill. Walk us through a typical Day in the life of Ali Tamposi.Īli Tamposi: I wake up, I eat cereal to fuel the brain, then I try and go on a hike to Fryman Canyon. Written by: Jörgen Elofsson, Ali Tamposi, David Gamson, Greg Kurstin

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