It includes production and co-songwriting from DJ Khalil, Pharrell Williams, Elton John, Theron Feemster and Rock Mafia.

Strings for the entire album were arranged and recorded by Daniel "Danny Keyz" Tannenbaum.

In an interview with Billboard in the US, Blacc talked about his new album saying, "It's called 'Lift Your Spirit, and I've got production by Pharrell Williams, the Rock Mafia, DJ Khalil - and we're working on making a fantastic album that blends together a lot of different styles of music - sort of the same way we blended dance music and country on 'Wake Me Up!".

In an interview with Billboard's Keith Caulfield at Sunday's American Music Awards, he revealed that even though the song doesn't officially include him as a featured artist like many electronic music songs, he isn't craving the extra attention, instead hoping it becomes a pleasant surprise for some people down the road, he said, "It's one of those things where it's bittersweet for the fans' sake; I want my fans to know that I'm doing something new" He is credited as a co-writer on the song, having come up with the lyrics on an airplane, he said, "I was thinking to myself, 'My life is a dream.

We ended up recording it that night and I drove home listening to this acoustic version that Avicii eventually made into a fantastic hit.