PinkPantheress has revealed in a TikTok post that she produced ‘Tonight’ using only her MacBook keyboard.
The former NME Cover star released the song as the lead single from her second mixtape ‘Fancy That’ in April last year, with the singer producing the track alongside Aksel Arvid and Count Baldor.
In a post on TikTok earlier this month, the musician – who won the BRIT Award for Producer Of The Year this month – showed fans how she put the track together.
“Everyone’s been so cute about my production, so I’m going to show you how I made my song ‘Tonight’ off of ‘Fancy That’,” she said. “The first thing I start off with is figuring out the chord like this…”
With that, she shows how she enters the chords manually on her keyboard via Logic Pro’s Musical Typing function, with the caption: “MIDI controllers can be expensive! Inputting them into whatever software use works just as well.”
She adds the bass and pitch-shifts the various stems before explaining that she got Count Baldor to handle the drums. “Shout out to any producer watching this. I used Logic, I used to use GarageBand, but we upgraded.”
@pinkpantheress i love to produce❤️thank you for being so lovely to me🥹shoutout askel arvid and panic at the disco also #tonight
In the caption to the post, she also paid tribute to Panic! At The Disco, whose 2008 song ‘Do You Know What I’m Seeing?’ is sampled on ‘Tonight’. “Their work not only touches lives but also motivates many to pursue their dreams in the music industry,” she wrote.
PinkPantheress will play a run of UK and European dates as part of her ‘An Evening With…’ tour in May and June – see all of the dates here and find any remaining tickets here.
The ‘Fancy That’ mixtape also included the song ‘Illegal’, which went on to be named as NME’s song of the year and was described as an “adrenaline-fuelled thrillride” that blends “winking storytelling smarts, artful sampling, cheeky culture-defining quips and dance floor-filling beats”.
When asked by NME why she thought the track had resonated with so many listeners, the producer replied: “I don’t know if it’s anything too deep, other than having a [TikTok] trend for it helped and also the sample is quite timeless. I think the power of the beat itself is what people really like about it.”