American Authors - Best Day Of My Life (Video clip)

"Best Day of My Life" is a melody by American outside the box rock band American Authors. The melody was composed by band individuals Zac Barnett, Dave Rublin, Matt Sanchez, and James

Adam Shelley, alongside makers Aaron Accetta and Shep Goodman. "Best Day of My Life" was initially recorded for discharge as a solitary by Mercury Records and Island Records on March 19, 2013, and later showed up as the second track on the band's third broadened play American Authors (2013) and the third track on their presentation studio collection, Oh, What a Life (2014).

Zac Barnett told a questioner for Blueprint Magazine, "Recently we have been experimenting with a lot of different instruments including banjo, mandolin and various percussion toys. Africa-influenced rhythms have been taking more of a prominent role in our songs which has then opened up our ideas on melodies. We're always open to trying new things and we get very excited to learn new instruments and experiment with new sounds. ... "Best Day of My Life"Greatest Day of My Life" was a thought that James and I had been messing around with. We had the pre-chorale and tune yet once we demonstrated the thought to whatever is left of the folks they came in and rebuilt the verses and included the faltered "life" melody. Thinking back on it, the tune changed a considerable measure from the underlying thought yet that is the thing that I cherish such a great amount about it. I'll never forget that tune being begun on acoustic guitars in my little Bushwick room, yet every one of us together as a band truly took the melody to a totally better place."

Barnett mentions "the stuttered 'life' chorus"—as in "the best day of my li-i-i-i-ife"; the "stuttering" also occurs in a recurrent "whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh"—by which he refers to a lyrical tradition of stuttering in rock music, popularized by Buddy Holly, David Bowie ("Ch-Ch-Changes"), Elton John, and others.)

Charge Lamb, composing for About.com, applauded the tune's "opening banjo lick" as "a flawless first snare," its "irrepressibly peppy verses," and "a mix of key components from over an extensive variety of current fruitful popular music." He included, "The bass drum substantial sponsorship percussion sounds similar to Imagine Dragons, and upheld by a pop-punk style "Whoa Oh" tune, "Greatest Day Of My Life" takes the absolute most unmistakable components of an assortment of current pop hit sorts and mixes them into something new