so FINALLY i’ve finished a song.
| It started being about how the japanese band One One who we saw the other week, had such pretty delicate vocals and it’s very ‘japanese’ like stuck in the first half of the century, submissive, quiet, sweet women. And as much as I’d love to write songs like One One (who are one of my favourite bands, and their vocals come across more honest and pure, than coy and demure), I could never really sing like that, not unless it were some silly song about being cutesy. So I started to write about that different kind of ‘woman’ and halfway through it started to sound like they were girl robots, not just throwback women to pre-feminism, but ideal women built by men, robot women! Which satisfies my inner geek and brings up heaps of stuff about things like sex dolls and so on which we see all the time on TV. |
Girl One Point Oh .mp3 we always move delicately coy and demure you can see a little slow yes maybe girl one point oh (uh oh) are we smooth, quiet, small, nice smooth, quiet, soft, kind like little birds in a tree we flitter about prettily you cannot tell her from me once we have got you we will see smooth, quiet, soft, kind smooth, quiet, all mine. |
I know you’re never supposed to qualify what you’ve done, or apologise, but for me this blog is about pushing and improving, and seriously you wouldn’t have believed the trials I went to to get this thing done to some degree I’m happy with.
it really is such a drama, you write all these bits but they never come together. and when you DO finally write and record some music, you realise – as I have here – that it’s in the wrong bleeding key if you want to actually sing something to it. so you have to transpose it and make the whole thing sound tinnier than it was meant to.
then you can’t come up with a decent melody, or if you do, you can’t sing it because it’s so high. or even if you come up with lyrics and a melody and transpose the song, you can’t record the vocals properly to save yourself.
and when it’s all done you say “gee I think it should be faster, poppier, punchier, or something” but of course you only know that NOW when you’re finished, not at the beginning when you have no idea what it’s going to sound like. BLAH. I’m pretty happy with it. it’s still a bit close to me, and it’s a pity I can’t seem to record the vocals satisfyingly….
Freaking great song young lady, do not stop now!
oh, coming from you that’s a great compliment Hanney! And where can I download your stuff from these days? i think my old bookmark no longer works, i love your brand of power pop and wish to steal all your ideas!
I think you’ve recorded the vocals perfectly, I love the layers – I get frustrated when the lyrics get lost in the music, especially yours cos they tell great stories.
Love it lots!
the only opinion that I really trust is yours, i was about to argue with you about the lyrics getting lost because i’ve been listening to this in the car, on my headphones, on my little iphone speakers and i felt you could only hear the vox because i’d put the lyrics up, but i’ve just listened on my stereo and it’s much better than i thought. i may have actually gotten the mix fairly right for a change. it’s a weird song though, can’t just pick up the guitar and perform it.
wow – awesome! particularly like the start!