Sunday, 2 March 2014

Writing My First Song

So I have always known, since I was little that I wanted to be a songwriter. Yes, when I was younger I was also the little kid who put on shows and danced and sang around the house all the time... driving my Parents crazy, and my friends. I remember, I would make all my friends come to singing lessons from ME! How self centered and patronizing is that!? But they do all have one thing in common, I have always known that I have wanted to be involved in music.
Music is such a big part of my life. I turn to music whatever mood I am in, wherever I am, whoever I am with. It is just a massive part of my life. When I am sad or feeling depressed I do what probably every teenage girl does, turn up my iPod, ignore everyone around me and listen to The Script, or some other artist that only sings about failed relationships... and I feel sorry for myself. But I think, in a way, that is great- because isn't it amazing that music can have that effect on people? I think that it is, anyway. And I love that I can find a different song each different mood I am in. It is the same with my own music and the way I write it. I think of lots of different moods that people can be in or different emotions that people will be feeling and I write songs so that they can also have a song to relate to when they are feeling a certain emotion. I want people to relate to my songs when they are feeling different emotions at different times.





First Proper song: Broken Angel


So I have wrote songs for around 3 years now. I remember the first ever song I wrote was with my friend Abigail- it was called 'Just Come Back To Me'; I have to say for being around 10 it was a pretty cute song!! We were in a band together with another friend, Chloe. We called ourselves the A.C.E Rockers! (Abigail, Chloe, Emily) I remember thinking "we're going to be famous" and thinking that we were amazing. We just sang covers of songs, really badly too! We once used a pencil as a drumstick- banging it against my chest of drawers!! We talked about doing concerts, we were going to perform to the whole of our street, from my balcony. We were going to be big! But then the others saw sense and quit. I remember thinking it was the end of the world and that I was devastated, I had my heart set on music. But from there I started writing my own songs. I would write 2/3 songs a day! And some of them would be atrocious, some amazing; which ever one of them it was, I still forced my Mum and Step dad to listen to them. And of course they would say it was great and that I was amazingly talented... even if  it was seriously dreadful! But that is where my love of songwriting came from.

I love Country Music too, I love it with a passion. The way that the steel guitar cries out in the background to create the perfect mood, and the banjos or acoustic guitars create beautiful backing music. I love it all. When I was little my Dad would constantly play his mixed CD's with his favorite country tracks on. My mum would hate it, but she sat through it though because she saw how happy it made my Dad, and me. But even now if me and my Brother are driving along with my Dad, we will still turn up the music full blast and sing our hearts out if we hear 'What hurts the most by Rascal Flatts' or 'Until I met you by Judy Rodman' or 'Where'd that woman go by Mel McDaniel and Oklahoma Wind'. We just love it! The thing about country music is it tells a story. It has a message, don't get me wrong I love Pop music and everything that gets into the 'Top 40' but you can't beat a song that has real meaning. I love the way all Country artists are so genuine. What you hear, is what they REALLY sound like. Some artists sound dreadful live: why should they be in music performing, doing what other people (who really can sing) genuinely want to do, if they can't even sing? You shouldn't have to enhance your voice on a computer just for people to listen to it and like it. If people like your music, they like it. If they don't like it, they don't like it. That's life. Not everyone likes everything; there will always be people that don't like you, that disagree with you. You can't please everyone. And you learn that pretty quick when you get to Grammar School.


Broken Angel
This is the first song I wrote that I felt really had a clear story and meaning. I wrote it about 6 months ago and just recently finished the bridge. I hope you can see that too. This song is about a relationship where two people know it's not working out. They know they don't love each other anymore,they don't want to be together anymore. The husband is praying he won't take things out on the wife but he does end up doing that in the end, and he hates himself for it. But he is so angry for letting the relationship get to this stage that he carries on- he can't stop. They both know that there is no healing the relationship now. In the chorus it says "A broken angel can be fixed now": this is saying that the wife is moving on, she's allowing herself to be happy for once.

 

The wife has been through a lot too, she was hurt by her husband, mentally and physically. That is why, in the chorus, you also hear "People see her in the street with bruises, making up different stories" because she loved her husband too much to humiliate him for what he ended up doing. It IS  a depressing song, but it's a depressing and sad story. I hope that as you listen to the song that I have managed to tell the story through my lyrics and add the perfect piano and strings backing to suit the story to picture it like I do too.

Thankyou!! Enjoy :-) <3 x








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