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| Length = | Label = | Writer = | Producer = }} "Cheerleader" is a song recorded by Jamaican singer OMI. The track was written and produced by OMI and Clifton Dillon, Mark Bradford, and Ryan Dillon. OMI first began developing the song in 2008, when he created its melody. It was refined over several years alongside famed Jamaican producer Clifton Dillon. It was first recorded with veteran session musicians Sly and Robbie and Dean Fraser. Released as a single on independent label Oufah, the song saw success in Jamaica, where it topped the charts, and also attracted airplay in Hawaii and Dubai.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=JAMAICA MUSIC COUNTDOWNBY RICHIE B,... - Reggae Festival Guide - Facebook )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=JAMAICA MUSIC COUNTDOWNBY RICHIE B,... - Reggae Festival Guide - Facebook )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jamaica music countdown by Richie B May 31-June 6 - Anthea McGibbon )〕 The song's lyrics depict a romantic companion as a support system. Hoping to connect the song to a wider audience, OMI signed to U.S. dance label Ultra Music in 2013. Ultra contacted two disc jockeys to produce remixed versions of the original song. The label and song's producers preferred one remix, produced by a young German DJ, Felix Jaehn, that eschewed much of the song's original instrumentation for a tropical-flavored deep house rendition, prominently featuring a trumpet, a conga beat, and piano. A remix extended play was released in May 2014 by Ultra, which began to first see commercial success that fall. The song became a massive global success in 2015. "Cheerleader" reached number one in 20 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, France, and Germany. It went multi-platinum in many of those territories. Three separate music videos were released for the song. ==Background== OMI—the stage name of Omar Samuel Pasley—was born the parish of Clarendon, Jamaica. He grew up with a love of American hip hop, but grew more interested in melody after listening to singers like John Legend, Nat King Cole, and Sam Cooke. He first developed "Cheerleader" in 2008, when he woke up humming its melody. "It was like a little Jamaican nursery rhyme, like ‘one, two, buckle my shoe,’ that kind of thing—‘ring game’ is what we’d call it. The rest of the song just fell into place like a jigsaw puzzle," he later recalled. The following year, he was discovered by producer Clifton "Specialist" Dillon, an influential figure in the Jamaican music industry, who subsequently became his manager and collaborator.〔 He originally wrote only two verses for the song, imagining it as an interlude for an album. Dillon convinced him to create a third verse, and the song began to take shape. Prolific Jamaican rhythm section Sly and Robbie and veteran saxophonist Dean Fraser contributed to the original recording, which was first issued in 2011 on Oufah, an independent label in Kingston.〔 The following April, Patrick Moxey, president of U.S. EDM label Ultra Music, discovered the song.〔 According to Moxey, he was vacationing in Montreal when he first heard the song whilst listening to radio promoter showcase songs popular in the Caribbean. Meanwhile, Salaam Remi, an American hip hop producer that owned an imprint at Sony, was also interested in bringing the song to a wider audience. Ultra signed Pasley to a recording contract in late 2013.〔 It soon began conversations with two disc jockeys—Brooklyn dancehall and hip-hop producer Ricky Blaze and German producer Felix Jaehn. They sent them "Cheerleader" and an acapella version to build remixes. Jaehn enjoyed the song's vocals, but felt its instrumentation not attune to its "feel-good" essence; he hoped to craft a remix he deemed more "danceable."〔 The Jaehn remix was completed in January 2014, and released that May on Ultra.〔 As of August 2015, both Omi and Jaehn had not physically met one another. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cheerleader (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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