Turn it on its head

So I wrote a song about 5 or 6 years ago. The song is called I'll be all you need and it's very lovey dovey, sappy and butter would totally melt in your mouth kind of song.

At the time I wrote it, I didn't actually know what being in love was all about or even knew what love felt like.

I hear artists like Natalia Kills say things like you should live and experience life before you can sing about it. Oddly enough, I hadn't lived this part of my life out yet.

I revisited this song, re-read it and thought the lyrics are totally generic and boring, and even after experiencing love, I didn't connect with it.

What do you do with a meaningless song? The melodies for it were actually pretty sweet and catchy, so I didn't feel comfortable just throwing it away.

So I thought, what have I experienced in my singledom? Hmmm. Bitterness, anger, making my feelings and myself vulnerable to another person, being walked all over, being pissed off at people messing you around. DING

I'll be all you need is now, I was all you need. I flipped it on it's head and turned it into a song about reckoning and making someone regret they ever messed you around. Suddenly it has more meaning.

I'm yet to record it, however, here are some lyrics that I just finished reworking today.

 I was all you need

Verse 1
There are no words, there are no pictures
To describe the way that you fucked up my heart
Cause you were my world, you were what I lived for each day
You took it all away, I begged you to say with me

Bridge 1
So I’m gonna do what I need to do to get past you and the games you’re playing
Make you regret, make you sorry, you wont forget why you shouldn’t mess with me

Chorus
Never find no body else, no body just like me
One in a million stars, far in the galaxy
Travel through time, look back and you will see
I was all you need
And I, I’m better off without you here
Won’t cry for you won’t shed a tear
You no longer mean all the world to me
And I was all you need

Verse 2
I hate you, I swore my love to you
Promised everything my body mind and soul,
And all you need to do, was to just believe me,
And know everything I said to you is true

Bridge 2
So I’m gonna do what I need to do to get past you and the games you’re playing
Cause what you left was a mess, made me full bitterness, an empty hole in me

Chrous

Bridge 3
In times of good in times of bad
In times when you’re feeling baby down and sad
You use to mean the world to me..
No longer mean the world to me…

Chorus

Rocket Man

 Saturday night in. What do you do? Cover Elton John.

Instrumentals

Just a quick post.

While I think lyrics, and vocal melodies are important in a song, I also believe the instrumental track and all the little hidden and intricate layers you wouldn't normally take notice of are just as important.
   
I stripped the vocals of Forever and Always so I could show how I structured the track but also what my very talented and creative friend Kris did.

He performed a bit mastering on the track (also threw a melody or two in there), which really added some really punch, musical magic and sparkle to what I'd already done, so much so, I think the instrumental stands alone really well.

Extended club mix perhaps is next?
Forever And Always (Astronomical Instrumental Mix) by Thom_edward

Forever and Always Lyric Video

So my YouTube presence has pretty much been non-existent for me or my music (unless you count the fun little sizzle/teaser video I did last year for me and my friend Luka's birthday).

I thought it might be a fun little creative exercise to put together something a little more visual for my song Forever and Always' YouTube debut in the form of a lyric video. Seems to be what all the kids are doing these days.

A bit of classic script in Photoshop, some fun/posie photos, a few snappy transitions, a bit of colour and movement, and a whole shitload of space nebula's = a perfect way to spend a rainy Saturday night in.

Feel free to re-post it because sharing is caring, but one proviso, make sure the bass is blaring!!!!


Hope you like it as much as I enjoyed making it.

Grace in your face

Seriously doesn't get any cooler than that

Seems to be of late that Grace Jones is on everyone’s minds. I keep coming across many blog posts about her. Maybe it's because she's coming to town very soon (playing at the Enmore).

Along with making some of the funkiest music, she is probably one of the coolest and innovative artists out there of all time. Definitely one of the first female artists to play around with androgyny and masculine elements in her style.

Crazy face masks, massive head pieces, huge shoulder pads............who else does that sound like? :)

 A few pieces I found around work! Seems like I was influenced by her before I even realised it.

Attack of the clones: A story of stereotypes

So this is one of a few that's been lurking around the depths of my consciousness, swirling around like a electromagnetic shit storm.

I wrote this my last year uni in 2008 where my passion for music got re-ignited when I did an electronic music production general education subject. I did three years of Economics and Marketing only to be smacked in the face with music at the 11th hour. Seems like no matter how far I deviated from music in life, the path always seems to lead back to it.

I digress. Attack of the clones was a product of an assignment to demonstrate our knowledge of Logic and Protools. Back in 2008, what came out lyrically and musically was a (half finished at the time) tongue in cheek stab at club kids and stereotypes.

Fast forward to 2011 - Attack of the clones continues deep into the galaxy on an intergalactic piss take robotic rampage to seek and question an individual’s psyche and ability to exhibit individuality.

If I was ever to write a song that was ironic, contradictory and hypocritical, this would be it.

Attack of the clones by Thom_edward