Workday

Lately, I’ve been overly concentrated over writing “pop” songs with catchy intros, and all that jazz. I just couldn’t produce anything that would satisfy me. I began talking to Ellen Cooper, and she suggested listening to more music. With this, I went home and I decided to lay out all my records in my record collection and listen for things that would “Grab” me. I listened to artists ranging from Nat King Cole to the Beatles, but the Album that struck me the most was “The Stranger”. This album was so powerful, lyrically and instrumentally, that it blew me away. Now I’ve had this album for a while, though I never paid close attention to it. My eyes were literally glued to the lyrics printed on the paper sleeve of the record. Billy Joel’s lyrics were so descriptive; I must have listened to the whole album 3-4 times to re-picture the stories in my head.

With upon listening to the albums, I decided to take a new route to the songwriting- Story telling. I wanted to tell a different story in each song I wrote. I didn’t want to write the same old freakin’ love songs you hear on the radio that have repetitive lyrical ideas like, “Baby I love you, I’ll never leave you, and we’ll never part….” I wanted to create songs in which when you hear them, you’re automatically envisioning the storyline in your head, like Joel’s styles of writing, Paul Simon, and many others. At the moment, I am intending on making a shortened album of 5 or 6 songs, 3 of which I am in the process of finishing, and the other 2 I still have to work on a bit. The 6^th may be optional, but I may have lost the idea of which I have based the song off of, thus creating a problem. Tomorrow, I am intending on finishing the 3 songs, and continuing the process of working on the others.