Anyway "Tarantula" is going to be the title of my next album. I've never been someone who writes fluffy candy and not that fluffy candy is a bad thing, it's just not something I can do well, so, I steer clear of it. Also, I'm Cancerian and in all the personality tests I've done over the years it seems I have a strong emotional trait which leans towards too much contemplating and over opinionated ideas etc etc. So, my songs sometimes appear bleak to some but to me they're not that one dimensional. In fact they're not bleak and they're not happy. To be they just comment on reality ie my perceptions of it.
"Tarantula" is going to be a collection of very new songs and some older ones that I wrote a while back. To me, my songwriting is about my truth. The things that I perceive as truth if you get me.
The truth about "Tarantula" is that it's a collection of songs about a whole range of topics including:
- Climate change - "Take Cover and Run"
- Letting go of self-control - "Some Storms Have Names"
- The floods and fires of 2009 - "Fire and Floods"
- Love without wisdom - "Sofia Doesn't Kiss Straight"
- Lost love (typical theme) - "Airport Terminal"
- Apnea and anxiety - "Pretty daughter blues"
- Mass hysteria through media - "Boom"
- Nostalgia - "Kudos"
- Our mundane existence in an office - "Life On Repeat"
- Lying in the middle of your country and our land - "Under My Bare Bare Feet"
- Life in a flat inner city complex - "Lost Opportunities"
So far we've done some demos of "Some Storms Have Names" and "Take Cover and Run". I'm pretty happy with where we're taking the songs. Who knows what will happen. I tend to write for myself rather than the radio now. I wrote for the radio with my EP and got airplay but I can't listen to the EP anymore because it just doesn't feel right. I don't want to write for today. I just want to write to get through the day.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment