Timbaland Reveals “Oompa-Loompa” Beat Inspiration Behind Aaliyah’s “Are You That Anyone”

The newborn half was me going by means of my sounds. I really feel like life is stuffed with music. As quickly as you get up, listening to the timber, that’s music. Listening to the crickets, that’s music. I really feel like every little thing that we do is music. Whenever you come outdoors, hearken to the timber, the birds, the crickets, the animals, all of them make music. In order that’s at all times been my factor as a result of we didn’t have cash once I was rising up, so how might you make music? And my thought was how do you get your present out whenever you don’t have the required instruments to do it? So I at all times pulled on nature, ’trigger I pulled on buckets, spoons, cans to make my beats as a result of I couldn’t afford a drum machine, so I by no means dialed away from nature, as a result of nature molded who I’m right now. I at all times needed to make use of nature to be in my songs, simply issues that we see daily, issues that we hear daily.

So I used to be going by means of my results sounds, and I heard this child. Was it a child, was it a rooster, there was a cow, there was Godzilla, this entire row. And this child got here throughout, and it was laughing, and that [one sound] wasn’t the entire thing. It was like [imitates four consecutive baby giggles]. I acquired to that one half, and as quickly because the beat got here on, I simply hit the button. I didn’t assume it was gonna work. I used to be speaking to Aaliyah from the place she was sitting on the sofa, and I simply hit the button and it was in key. All the pieces was excellent. I put it within the music and she or he mentioned, “Oh that’s so cute!”