The story of Avicii's "Wake Me Up" is true dance world mythology. Before releasing the song on June 17, 2013, the Swedish producer debuted the track three months prior at Ultra Music Festival 2013.
Famously, the audience was so confused by the music that they booed. “When we performed at Ultra, it was just awkward," the track's vocalist Aloe Blacc told SPIN last year. "I don’t think even the sound people knew what they were doing.
Everybody else at the festival had air cannons and pyro and half-naked girls dancing onstage. Then here comes Tim with drums, banjo, fiddle, guitar and three singers.” When Blacc and the song's co-writer Mike Einzinger got offstage that night, they asked the artist born Tim Bergling if the performance had been
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