History Music / CalvinHarris

!! Calvin Harris' works provide examples of:

** Common throughout the rap sections of ''Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1''.

* DreamTeam: Starting with ''18 Months'', Calvin's begun pairing himself with many different artists that complement his production, most notably:
** Calvin and {{Music/Ellie Goulding}} on "I Need Your Love" and "Outside".
** Calvin and John Newman on "Blame".
** Calvin, {{Music/Alesso}}, and Hurts on "Under Control".
** Calvin and [[Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine Florence Welch]] on "Sweet Nothing".
** Calvin and Dizzee Rascal on "Dance Wiv Me" (with Chrome), "Here 2 China" (with Dillon Francis), and "Hype".
** Calvin and Ayah Marar on "Thinking About You".
** Calvin, {{Music/Frank Ocean}}, and {{Music/Migos}} on "Slide".
** Calvin, Music/SnoopDogg, John Legend, and Takeoff on "Holiday".
** Calvin and Music/NickiMinaj on "Skrt on Me".
** Calvin, {{Music/Young Thug}}, {{Music/Pharrell Williams}}, and {{Music/Ariana Grande}} on "Heatstroke".
** Calvin, {{Music/Katy Perry}}, {{Music/Pharrell Williams}}, and {{Music/Big Sean}} on "Feels".
** Calvin, Schoolboy Q, PARTYNEXTDOOR, and D.R.A.M on "Cash Out".
** Calvin, Music/TravisScott, and A-Trak on "Prayers Up".
** Calvin and Music/DuaLipa on "One Kiss".
** Calvin, Music/DuaLipa and Music/YoungThug on "Potion".

** Calvin and {{Music/Ellie Goulding}} on "I Need Your Love and "Outside".

Calvin Harris (born Adam Richard Wiles, January 17, 1984) is a [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Scottish]] DJ and record producer. He first grew his interest of electronic dance music at a young age and began to record his first demos in his bedroom as a teenager. A couple of demos he posted on Website/MySpace won him a major label deal in the mid-2000s, and he has since become a big name on the dance music scene. Calvin is known for his energetic, fizzy sounding electronic-dance music and a low, untrained voice that he utilizes on his tracks.

** Calvin, {{Music/Katy Perry}}, {{Music/Pharrell Williams}}, and {{Music/BigSean}} on "Feels".

** Calvin, {{Music/KatyPerry}}, {{Music/Pharrell Williams}}, and {{Music/BigSean}} on "Feels".

* AlbumTitleDrop: “I put on my shoes and I’m '''ready for the weekend'''.

* AudienceParticipationSong: Whenever he's performing, Calvin will always ask the crowd to sing along to ''Feel So Close'', cutting the volume so that he can hear the audience. He has done similar antics with ''Sweet Nothing'', ''We Found Love'', and his remix of Music/FatboySlim and Riva Starr's ''Eat Sleep Rave Repeat'' featuring Beardyman.
** The audience also loves to sing I Need Your Love and Under Control without Calvin's input.

** Music/TinieTempah and Dizzee Rascal both provide very boastful raps on Drinking From the Bottle and Here 2 China respectively, rapping about drinking, drugs, ladies, and other things that entertain them.
*** Big Sean attempts to do this in Open Wide, [[AWildRapperAppears but it falls down spectacularly]].

** He appears as a DJ in {{Music/Rihanna}}'s "{{Music/We Found Love}}" video, as well as a couple of his own music videos such as Let's Go and Bounce.
** Subverted in Dizzee Rascal's Holiday video. Calvin was supposed to briefly appear as a dancer in the video, but ultimately decided to walk off the set due to being unable to wear his signature Fly Eyes during the video, besides being uncomfortable dancing. However, Calvin does show up in Dizzee Rascal's Dance Wiv Me music video as a bartender.
** Appears as a boyfriend to an abusive girlfriend in Outside, where he deals with AlienGeometries after she tries to throw a plate at him.
** He can be seen playing a piano during the music video for "Faking It".
* DreamTeam: Starting with 18 Months, Calvin's begun pairing himself with many different artists that complement his production, most notably:

** Calvin and Dizzee Rascal on "Dance Wiv Me" (with Chrome), Here 2 China (with Dillon Francis), and Hype.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Calvin's earlier work was reminiscent of early disco pop, and he sang on almost all of his own tracks. Ready For The Weekend also consisted of him singing on a huge majority of his tracks, though this time with a more modern (at least for 2009) feel.
* ElectronicMusic: Has emerged to the forefront of the recent 'EDM' scene, alongside Music/DavidGuetta and Music/{{Skrillex}}.
* FadingIntoTheNextSong: Ready For The Weekend has The Rain fade into...well, [[AlbumTitleDrop Ready For The Weekend]].
** On ''18 Months'', Green Valley does a well-done transition into Bounce. Downplayed later in the album, when We'll Be Coming Back just ''barely'' fades into Mansion, and can be easily missed if the listener doesn't pay attention and/or doesn't have the volume up on a higher level.

* HouseMusic: Despite mostly making dance hits, Calvin has made some very groovy instrumentals that could be considered this. Mansion, School, Awooga, and Slow Acid are some very prominent examples.

* MakingASpectacleOfYourself: His pair of blinged-out sunglasses with a similar level of functionality to shutter shades; they've appeared on the covers of his first two albums, though he's seemed to have dropped it as of ''18 Months''. Starting with Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1, he appears to have swapped them out for red sunglasses.

* NonAppearingTitle: Justified in some cases, due to him releasing some instrumental tracks such as Burns Night and Mansion.

* SurrealMusicVideo: Played straight with ''Ready for the Weekend'', which has mirrors leading to other parts of the music video, Calvin jumping through holes in the floor that lead to different places, and is all-around just...bizarre.
** Happens during Slow Acid, where, a woman painted entirely in blue starts stretching around the screen and turning into the album artwork before turning back to normal. This is all ''before'' said woman takes some kind of drug, robs a store, and kills a middle aged man who tries to use her as a prostitute. Surreal indeed.
** Blame has several girls fall into separate bodies of water at a party they were at, who then all end up in some jungle in the middle of nowhere.
** Acceptable in the 80's has several 80's style trends appearing throughout the video, with everybody dancing to the beat as they do some ''very'' strange things.

** Calvin and EllieGoulding on "I Need Your Love and "Outside".

** Calvin, Alesso, and Hurts on "Under Control".

** Calvin, Frank Ocean, and Migos on "Slide".

** Calvin, Young Thug, Pharrell Williams, and ArianaGrande on "Heatstroke".

** Calvin, Travis Scott, and A-Trak on "Prayers Up".

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: During his I Created Disco and Ready For The Weekend Days, Calvin kept his hair dyed jet-black, since he thought that his natural blonde hair didn't suit him. He later ditched the look during the early days of 18 Months however, and has kept it this way ever since.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: He remixed Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine's "Spectrum" to ''great'' success in the UK, becoming the latter's first #1 single in the country. Florence herself later returned the favor, lending her voice to his own "Sweet Nothing".
** A few tracks off of 18 Months have some instrumental tracks (Mansion, School, Awooga, and Green Valley) that are break off a bit from the generic dance formula Calvin usually sticks to.
** Calvin has two collaborations with American DJ/producer Dillon Francis, which also break off from his usual EDM formula. The first is Here 2 China (featuring Dizzee Rascal) produced for 18 Months, and What's Your Name, which was part of Dillon's EP entitled ''This Mixtape Is Fire''.
** Calvin's promotional singles Slow Acid and Mansion play with Music/AphexTwin style acid house, making the track quite popular with underground music listeners.

* {{Mondegreen}}: Admit it- You thought Katy Perry was singing "Don't be afraid to catch FISH!"

* {{Adorkable}}: Was this up until 18 Months, where he instead became MrFanservice.

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: At 6'5", he towers over many of his female collaborators. He was also a [[OneHeadTaller solid foot taller]] than his ex-girlfriend Music/RitaOra. In an interview with Ryan Seacrest, Calvin mentions that he's so tall that he could legally become a ''giant'' if he grew any taller.

Calvin Harris’ discography:

!! Calvin Harris provide examples of:
* ADogAteMyHomework: To buy himself more time to work on his second album, he told his label that he lost the laptop containing his new songs at Heathrow Airport in London.

* AsHimself: The credits for the "Feels" music video list Calvin Harris, as well as the featured artists Pharrell Williams, Music/KatyPerry, and Music/BigSean, all starring as themselves.

* UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}}: Where he's from.

** He appears as a DJ in {{Rihanna}}'s "{{Music/We Found Love}}" video, as well as a couple of his own music videos such as Let's Go and Bounce.

* RecordProducer: He has most notably produced tracks for Music/KylieMinogue (“Heart Beat Rock”, “In My Arms”, “Cupid Boy”), Music/SophieEllisBextor (“Off & On”) Dizzee Rascal (“Holiday” and “Dance Wiv Me”). He also produced {{Rihanna}}'s hit singles "{{Music/We Found Love}}" and "Where Have You Been", with the former becoming one of her biggest hits ever and her longest-reigning #1 single to date.

** Calvin and [[Florence+TheMachine Florence Welch]] on "Sweet Nothing".

** Calvin, SnoopDogg, John Legend, and Takeoff on "Holiday".
** Calvin and NickiMinaj on "Skrt on Me".