Background
The track was written with the help of American Idol viewers throughout Season 11 of the show. The creation of the song was promoted through Coca-Cola's "Perfect Harmony" program [2] [3] where, throughout the season, American Idol viewers were invited to contribute parts of the lyrics to a tune offered online, making the song a true collaborative effort by a big number of people. After four submission and voting phases and thousands of lyric submissions, [4] contributions were edited and the eventual final version performed by Derulo and tipped as part of his "healing process" after he suffered an accident that left him in a neck brace for many months.
The single pays homage to the Coca-Cola brand, evidenced by a variation of the brand's iconic 5-note-jingle repeated throughout the song and the stylised design of the cover art which appears much like the top of a beverage can. In an interview with American Idol host Ryan Seacrest on the latter's radio show, Derulo described the writing process as follows: "The fans got to help me write the song. I started writing the song, but I left a bunch of lines blank and the fans have been helping me fill in the lines. There were lots of great, great lines. It made the process a little difficult. Thankfully, I had a lot of help to whittle it down to a number that I could actually look at. There were tons and tons of great stuff, but we got it down and I believe we came up with the best product!"
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