“Let’s just use it like that"

On capturing Kimbra’s guest vocals for John Legend's "Made to Love":

"Dave [Tozer] and I wrote the vocals together for the main body of the song, and we happened to be working with Kimbra on another track for her project that day, so we played this one for her to see if she had any ideas. She went into the booth and beautifully scatted all over the track and we chopped it up and used her scats as a crucial part of the song."

("John Legend: Soul singer dishes on his style, his connection to '12 Years a Slave' and his new album", November 11, 2013, www.cleveland.com)

"Kimbra’s part came about in an interesting way: we were in the studio together and we played the song for her, and she had a melody idea that she wanted to just quickly record while it was in her head. It was intended that it would be developed and have lyrics written to it, but her scatting sounded so cool, I said, 'Let’s just use it like that, instead of developing it further.' So what you hear were the original spontaneous ideas that emerged when she first heard the song. It ended up being very cool."

("Inside John Legend’s “Love in the Future” – Track by Track with Executive Producer Dave Tozer", September 2, 2013, Sonic Scoop)