I really had to rack my brain when it came to this week's theme.  I was even considering finishing off a song I was working on for the previous week.  In the end though, I decided to go back to some lyrics I had written in 2004!  I had never come up with any music for them until now.  This song is about the feeling of becoming an artist who has only one really popular song to his or her name. I am of course talking about the one-hit wonder.  I feel like this song ties into the theme rathe nicely, and I only had to slightly tweak the lyrics here and there.  In the chorus, I referenced the fictional band "The Wonders" from the movie "That Thing You Do" starring Tom Hanks.  In order to avoid overusing the word "wonder" however, I have pronounced the band's name as "The Oh-Nee-Ders."  In the film, the band had initially written their name as "The Oneders" and as such it was mispronounced so then they settled on the more conventional name spelling as  "The Wonders."  Hmm, a simple hyphen would have solved all their problems I think.  Their name should have read "The One-ders."  The piano part (yes, I'm breaking from my guitar-only term this week) has been lifted from a song I wrote in a previous term, just to see how well it translates to this particular set of lyrics here.


VERSE 1
I had only written one song
And it was one of my best
Maybe I should have written more
But it can be such a pest

I've often been called a slacker
Although this is far from the truth
You see it's so hard to come up with words
That sound good and warrant the proof


CHORUS
I don't want to be a one-hit wonder
Who pens the very odd gem
The Oneders, The Knack and Los Del Rio
I must have more hits than them

Oh sure I have written a whole heap of stuff
But those were just wordless drivel
I feel the need for a challenge
And then that will stop me being so trivial


VERSE 2
It can be a fragile existence
When you only have one hit song
Such censure from the outside world
Go tell them to smoke some bongs

So that is my main motivation
In penning this epic for you
To show that I am so much more
Than one-dimensional doggie do


CHORUS
I don't want to be a one-hit wonder
Who pens the very odd gem
The Oneders, The Knack and Los Del Rio
I must have more hits than them

Oh sure I have written a whole heap of stuff
But those were just wordless drivel
I feel the need for a challenge
And then that will stop me being so trivial


BRIDGE
Now you must stop being so silly
And aiming the blame at yourself
You know it's so hard to write a song
Just well enough so that it sells.

Everybody loves what you do
So please lighten up a bit
One day you will be on top of the world
So you must put a sock in it!


FINAL CHORUS
There's no way you'll be a one-hit wonder
As you will have so many gems
The Oneders, The Knack and Los Del Rio
You will have more hits than them

Ok so you've written a whole heap of stuff
But those rocked man, they really did 
You've already challenged yourself so much
And you'll never go down the skids
You've already challenged yourself so much
And you'll never go down the skids

One - Hit Wonder

Protis has been writing music since 1998, when he was still in high school. The name Protis came about from watching the TV show Pokemon; his original name was Piggy, and just how Pikachu evolves into Raichu, well he decided that Piggy would evolve into Protis. The name has stuck ever since then.

Protis is a big fan of computer-based music.  The first computer program he used for music purposes was Cubase Lite on good ol' Windows 3.1 operating system.  Over the years he moved on to Cubast VST, where he further developed his skills as a songwriter.  Most of his early recordings were instrumental works, as at the time he was unable to compose decent lyrics.

After a while, Protis decided to leave the realm of General MIDI and progress into the world of loops and samples.  He accomplished this by using the ACID range of products.  Countless hours were spent with this brilliant piece of software, coming up with lots of cool beats.

Protis has also dabbled in the FruityLoops software, now called FL Studio.  He utilised FL Studio to write songs which contained his first self-penned lyrics.  He was surprised at just how well his lyrics came across in each song, fitting in well with the music.  And all this from someone who could never write words to his songs!

New tracks tagged #one-hit wonder