![]() … "Best Day of My Life” was an idea that James and I had been messing around with. We’re always open to trying new things and we get very excited to learn new instruments and experiment with new sounds. Africa-influenced rhythms have been taking more of a prominent role in our songs which has then opened up our ideas on melodies. Zac Barnett told an interviewer for Blueprint Magazine, “Recently we have been experimenting with a lot of different instruments including banjo, mandolin, and various percussion toys. They were inspired to write the song to “make people happy and make people feel positive, because that’s something that was missing from rock and from songwriting, just something so simplistic that can be an earworm, that can carry people.” ![]() Dave Rublin spoke in a podcast of Songfacts where he disclosed that the song was being written when the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting happened in 2012. “Best Day of My Life” was originally recorded for release as a single by Mercury Records and Island Records on March 19, 2013, and later appeared as the second track on the band’s third extended play, American Authors (2013), and the third track on their debut studio album, Oh, What a Life (2014). The song was written by band members Zac Barnett, Dave Rublin, Matt Sanchez, and James Adam Shelley, along with producers Aaron Accetta and Shep Goodman. ![]() “Best Day of My Life” is a song by American pop rock band American Authors. ![]()
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