Like It Like That (Guy Sebastian song)
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| Single by Guy Sebastian | ||||||||||
| from the album Like It Like That | ||||||||||
| Released | 13 August 2009 | |||||||||
| Format | CD single, digital download | |||||||||
| Recorded | 2009 | |||||||||
| Genre | Pop, Soul | |||||||||
| Length | 3:48 (radio edit) 4:01 (album version) |
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| Label | Sony Music | |||||||||
| Writer(s) | Guy Sebastian, David Ryan Harris, Sean Hurley | |||||||||
| Producer(s) | David Ryan Harris, Fredro | |||||||||
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 Official "Like It Like That" music video
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"Like It Like That" is the title track and first single from Australian pop, R&B and soul singer-songwriter Guy Sebastian's fifth album Like It Like That. It was co-written by Sebastian, David Ryan Harris and Sean Hurley. "Like It Like That" was released on 13 August 2009 and peaked at number one on the ARIA singles chart. It was Sebastian's fourth of six number one singles and fifth of 12 top ten singles in Australia. It was the highest selling Australian artist single and sixth highest selling single overall in Australia in 2009. It received a 2010 ARIA Music Award nomination for Most Popular Australian Single. In 2014 the song reached 4× platinum certification. "Like It Like That" also charted in New Zealand in 2011, peaking at number 30 and gaining gold certification there.
"Like It Like That" is a song with 1960s soul and pop influences and was co-written by Sebastian, Sean Hurley and David Ryan Harris, who has worked with the likes of John Mayer, Mariah Carey and the Neville Brothers. It was produced by Harris and Fredro. The song was not originally slated to be released as the first single from the album, but Sebastian said in an interview with Paul Cashmere of Undercover at the SXSW Music Festival in Texas in early 2009 that the feedback he had received from live performances had made it a strong contender as the lead single. He said, "The more we play "Like It Like That" when I play it live a lot of people are drawn to it. [...] It's simple really. The chorus says 'Hey oh, do you like it like that, I'm the only one who can love you like that' and it repeats. It's so easy, it's just a fun song".
Prior to its release in Australia "Like It Like That" was chosen as the theme song for the US NBC network's summer promotional campaign. In an interview in late 2009 Sebastian said "Like It Like That" originally had a much more organic sound and didn't really have a modern edge. It was produced to go on the US album, as the record company wanted the album to have a similar sound as The Memphis Album for the US market, but Sebastian did not feel that type of production was right for Australia. He said, "I ended up going back and reproducing everything which was quite a nightmare. I mean "Like It Like That" for example was really old school, like real drums, real organic, so we reproduced that and we got it to sound a little more modern, in your face I guess, the way it is now". In 2010 after being presented with an award by Sony for "Like It Like That" he said, "I think 'Like It Like That' is the most I've ever sat back and gone 'I can't believe this is my life. I can't believe it's happening and radio's all over it'. It blew my mind."
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