needs softening, wanted whispery billie eilish vocals and the lyrics already have been edited heaps, i want it to be less confronting, like instead of saying “he thinks i’m not even trying” just saying “yeah i’m not even trying” which is less accusatory. there’s even a mistake in this performance trying to stick to the “write in one hour” rule.

Not Even Trying

week four of song writing club, we were to write a tv theme song. i chose Bones, the idea of a victims body decomposing and the victim hoping they will uncover their story and let them go home.

recorded on four track with heaps of reverb and difficulty singing the first part in tune!

Decomposition

had a lot of asthma so really struggled to practice and perform this one. the theme was Split Personality and this is the first time i really used the full hour just on writing, wrote three songs, this one the successful one. it’s hard to keep myself from getting up and walking away, instead i looked at the lyrics of other people’s songs to inspire me.

Voice Memos

The Splits - week two (term two)

my attempt at a song mixin Tenniscoats Saya with Deerhoofs Satomi. OneOne was their super band, with a few tweaks (likeimproving my japanese) maybe i could join them!

No One Knows (daremoshiranai)

this song has been a long time coming, i’ll have to work on the melody and outro as the beginning recalls Bertie Blackman and the end recalls Swifty. 

but i’m pretty bloody pleased to get these themes in this song, and had i not injured myself before trying to record i could have done it justice instead of the very very tough demo. the break in the middle is literally to let my cut finger stop hurting a second... keep listening! it keeps going!

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