The song received positive reviews from music critics. The song is an upbeat pop track with a disco-like bassline and a funky guitar riff in the background on the choruses, where he sings: "It's as if I'm scared/It's as if I'm terrified/It's as if I scared/It's as if I'm playing with fire". It uses the melody from " (I Just) Died in Your Arms Tonight" by the Cutting Crew. Once home, he wrote the song in twenty minutes. He walked home and, still frightened, started singing. Outside there were police all around: it was 7 July 2005 London bombings. As lights came on again, passengers were told to leave the train. The lights went out, reminding him of his childhood fears. Many years later, he was aboard a Tube train travelling to a recording studio when the train suddenly stopped. In a 2017 episode of his show Stasera Casa Mika on the Italian TV channel Rai 2, Mika described that as a child he was scared of the London Underground, before becoming used to the noise and crowds as he grew up. So it was one of the harder tracks for me to produce, but also the most rewarding." The organic-ness gives a more classic field to it. It's really effective – you can't tell if it's a full dance track or really laid-back. And we picked up the strangest pedal combinations to get all these weird sounds. We used some great session musicians who had worked with Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson. So when I came into producing 'Relax' I made sure that most of the sounds we used were actually made by real instruments. "I always wanted to write a dance song that wasn't a really full dance track, that felt organic. Mika described the story behind the song in an interview with the Sun Newspaper, on 2 February 2007: The song was also featured prominently in the movie Were the World Mine. This single peaked at number 18 in the UK Singles Chart. The song was released as Mika's sixth single in the UK in stores on 31 December 2007, and for digital download on 24 December 2007 as a double A-side with " Lollipop". In North America, it was released as the third single from the album. The song makes use of a melody line from the Cutting Crew hit single " (I Just) Died in Your Arms". In the UK, it failed to chart upon its original release, but after " Grace Kelly" topped the charts in January 2007, it managed to peak at number 67 on the UK Downloads Chart because of download sales. And, what’s more, arranged it in a way that was far superior to what I had written." Relax, Take It Easy" is the debut single by British singer-songwriter Mika, from his debut album Life in Cartoon Motion. Do it.’ And he finished it in spectacular fashion. He added, “And after a couple of times… I said, ‘All right.’ I finally thought, ‘This is ridiculous. Glenn happened to come by to say ‘Hi,’ and to hang around when I was in the studio, and I showed him the beginnings of that song,” explained Browne, who initially kept declining Frey’s offers to finish it. We kept showing up at the same clubs and singing on the open-mic nights. In a later radio interview, Browne allegedly said he “knew Glenn… from playing these clubs. It appealed to me,” noted Browne in 1994’s bio-documentary “Jackson Browne: Going Home.” “I had dug the fact that all these women in Arizona were driving trucks. Just those open chords felt like an announcement, ‘And now … the Eagles.’” He spent a long day in Winslow… I don’t know that we could have ever had a better opening song on our first album. He’d had car trouble and broken down there on one of his trips to Sedona. He already had the lines about Winslow, Arizona. Sometimes, you know, it’s the package without the ribbon. Even with such a small contribution, Browne was immediately awe-struck, saying, “Okay! We co-wrote this,” as Frey recounted it.
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