I’m enjoying a nice and relaxed saturday at home today. Sudden inspiration struck and I just finished a song about a singing kid. I haven’t decided yet if I will record it or not. I think I’m going to just leave it alone for now and see if I still like it tomorrow.
I wrote a kind of love song about a month ago, but I couldn’t get the chorus quite right. The rest of the song sounded pretty good I think, but even after several rewrites the words in the chorus just sounded cheesy. That’s the hardest part about love songs, I think. You want them to sound serious and sincere, but then they very easily end up sounding cheesy and tacky instead. So I tried something different. I made it sincere, but not serious. I rewrote some parts and made the song express what I wanted to express is a rather peculiar, but still heartfelt and sincere way. I think it might be working. Overall, the song sounds better this way.
There’s a thousand million love songs out there, and honestly, most of them sound pretty much the same. Whatever there is to say about love with a song has already been said, written and sung so many times over that it seems almost impossible to write a new song that doesn’t sound like a boring regurgitation of the same old same old. Obviously, I don’t want that. If I write a new song, I want it to be a *new* song. I can’t really say for sure if I succeeded in doing that with this song, as I’m a bit biased about the result, but I like the result. Judge for yourselves after I record the song and post it online.
