PAPOOZ’s Ulysse Cottin and Armand Penicaut share more about “Down By You” here: “This is one of the first songs we recorded at Jesse’s studio in NYC, just a couple of months after we started working with him in Paris last year. It's a teenage love song about a couple of kids misbehaving in the city. I remember we didn’t want to make it clear if they are romantically attached to each other or not.
We wanted to capture that youthful feeling of running around town with a friend, breaking beer bottles, shoplifting candies, making out, running away from the police and all that 50’s adolescent imagery that you can see in movies like American Graffiti or Rebel without a cause.
Musically there’s a bossa-novesque mood in the verses, mainly due to the jazz chords we used, and it becomes way more doo-wop when the chorus kicks in. You have to imagine Kings of Convenience having a hot date with Dion & the Belmonts.”
