But I think the idea was to create a visual, like giving a person a shape that embodies a wild dream and then realizing that even your dreams, your imagination can't create someone that's standing right in front of you. One is very '80s and driving, and one is very slow, very heavy on the bass, and the vocals are going everywhere. Majid: “We made ‘Wildest Dreams’ the same day we made ‘Summer Rain,’ and that's the funny thing about music-you just don't know where it's going to go. That feel-good factor, I think, is important for the world right now.” That's what we were very intentional with, returning after such a long time and such a difficult time-trying to enhance feelings of positivity and optimism. And kind of in a similar vein of ‘Dancing on a Dream,’ ‘Waves of Blue’ is uplifting, and it makes you feel good.
Majid: “I grew up in Bahrain on an island, so I used to spend a lot of time by the water just imagining what being in love would be like, because I hadn't been in love at that point-I was still young, probably 14, 15. The song title says it all, really-the place and time everything's aligned for these wildest dreams to come true.”
It feels like everything coming together. Majid: “‘Stars Align’ is about that perfect moment. ‘Summer Rain’ is definitely a song that musically challenged us and gives that euphoric feeling for a dance record that still has meaning-I think that's really difficult to actually accomplish.” We always try to put push ourselves and what we can do and also revisit what we've already done before. Jordan: “We're influenced by so many different types of music, and definitely one of them is '80s synth dance music that kind of borders on almost like a rock song. We started working with Koz on it, and it definitely led to a bunch of other musical journeys on this album, but this one for sure is like the door reopening after years.” It was also one of the first songs that we got to work with Koz, who co-produced this with us. ‘Dancing on a Dream’ was definitely the select for the first song I think almost the whole time while we were putting together this album. Jordan: “We want people to turn on the album and start enjoying themselves immediately. “I hope people get the chance to breathe the same way that we did.” Here the duo walk through each track on Wildest Dreams. “That positivity in our music is really a lifestyle that we hold close to us-we're here to make people enjoy themselves.” “It's like we're on the edge of our wildest dreams right now and anything feels like it's possible,” Majid adds. “When Maj and I got together at the beginning, we wanted to make music for the people around us and ourselves,” Jordan says. From the opening seconds of the synth-pop jam “Dancing on a Dream” to the final moments of the tranquil serenade “Sweet,” Majid Jordan zeroes in on the weightlessness that comes with surrendering to love, hope, and joy. The result is something like ecstasy unmuted. “I think there's just a lot of growth-musical growth, personal growth, our family and friends, our circles getting a little bigger, thankfully-and we were able to put together an album that represents that hiatus.” “I think looking back to our last album, the music is like a photograph that we were able to see who we were then and where we are now,” producer Jordan Ullman tells Apple Music. Between touring and traveling-in hotels and tour buses, in Toronto, Los Angeles, and Bahrain-they were consistently working on music, evolving into an even more polished version of themselves. But really, the seeds were being planted for Wildest Dreams, their third LP, long before, as they were riding the success of 2017's The Space Between. “When the pandemic hit, it's like there was nothing else to do, so we made an album,” says Majid Al Maskati of the Canadian duo Majid Jordan.
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