Disciples

Disciples On Working With Calvin Harris: “It’s Insane”

"He's a fountain of knowledge."

Tuesday, November 1, 2016 - 10:19

With seven UK Number One singles to his name, Calvin Harris clearly knows a thing or two about making hits. (He knows a lot about it. It’s his job.) So if you’re a lesser-known trio of producers and DJs with an interest in emulating that success – and your name is ‘Disciples’ – you’re going to pounce at the opportunity to make a single with Calvin.

Released last summer, Calvin Harris & Disciples’ ‘How Deep Is Your Love’ – peaking at Number Two on the UK Singles Chart - has now been streamed on Spotify almost 450 million times. It’s been played on YouTube over 800 million times. The music video, directed by regular Harris collaborator Emil Nava and starring Gigi Hadid, won a VMA earlier this year for Best Electronic Video.

Word on the street is that ‘How Deep Is Your Love’ did “quite well” and might have even made "a quid or two”.

View the lyrics

I want you to breathe me in
Let me be your air
Let me roam your body freely
No inhibition, no fear

How deep is your love?
Is it like the ocean?
What devotion are you?
How deep is your love?
Is it like Nirvana?
Hit me harder again
How deep is your love?
How deep is your love?

How deep is your love?
Is it like the ocean?
Pull me closer again
How deep is your love?

How deep is your love?

Open up my eyes and
Tell me who I am
Let me in on all your secrets
No inhibition, no sin

How deep is your love?
Is it like the ocean?
What devotion are you?
How deep is your love?
Is it like Nirvana?
Hit me harder again
How deep is your love?
How deep is your love?

How deep is your love?
Is it like the ocean?
Pull me closer again
How deep is your love?

How deep is your love?

How deep is your love?
So tell me, how deep is your love? Can it go deeper?
So tell me, how deep is your love? Can it go deep?
So tell me, how deep is your love? Can it go deeper?
So tell me, how deep is your love? Can it go deep?

How deep is your love?
So tell me, how deep is your love? Can it go deeper?
So tell me, how deep is your love? Can it go deep?

How deep is your love?
So tell me, how deep is your love? Can it go deeper?
Pull me closer again (so tell me, how deep is your love?)
How deep is your love?

How deep is your love?

How deep is your love?
So tell me, how deep is your love? Can it go deeper?
So tell me, how deep is your love? Can it go deep?

How deep is your love?
So tell me, how deep is your love? Can it go deeper?
So tell me, how deep is your love? Can it go deep?

Writer(s): Calvin Harris, Nathan Duvall, Luke McDermott, Marvin White, INA WROLSDEN, Gavin Koolman Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com

MTV spoke to Nathan Vincent Duvall, Gavin Kool, and Luke Mac – AKA Disciples - about the track, and why working with Calvin Harris “is insane.”

“He’s a fountain of knowledge,” the London-based trio tells us. “He treated us like equals even though we’re not.”

“Obviously he’s so knowledgeable about crafting a worldwide, accessible song. We definitely learnt a lot from the process of finishing that track with him.”

Turning to each other, the trio asks: “Do you think he learnt anything from us?”

There’s a pause.

Another pause.

“…No.”

Disciples’ new single, ‘Daylight’, is out now.

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