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its claire chun! shes awesome.
i'm writing a bus song these days (among other things). actually i feel like writing short stories to go with some songs... i dunno.
daryl & ys: thanks!!
... umm, no i'm not influenced by Regina Spektor, although someone else has also said i sound a bit like her. in terms of just eccentricities like that, i'm more influenced by stuff like broadway (80s mostly), classical music (e.g. like program music, Schubert's lieder, Berlioz's Symphony Fantastique (aaahh when i first heard the execution scene with the pizzicato depicting the head dropping into the basket, i thought that was quite genius and fun...), Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony... obviously, i'm eons and light galaxies away from being able to do what those greats did, but i like some of their ideas and the way they strove to depict images, situations and complex emotions as accurately as they could), and a lot of the kids' song-and-dance videos i watched as a child (i just bought some Wee Sing DVDs again to marvel at the cleverness of some of those songs again), kiiiiiii and whatever else i learnt in sec school drama club. sondheim's also very inspiring. in terms of general music influences besides those, there're (probably very obviously
) the female singer-songwriters like tori amos, bjork, pj harvey, aimee mann, ani difranco, joni mitchell, etc... and some other angsty things from the 90s that me and my angsty friends listened to. portishead, hooverphonic, k's choice... uh maybe stuff like that.
am also influenced by books and films as well - e.g. rainer maria rilke, visitor q, the scene in (um) final destination where the lady is staggering around her own kitchen with knives stuck into her while country music happily plays in the background...mahmoud darwish is also probably really interesting to read for lyrical ideas, i think...
but i wrote the handphone song partly because i thought it was one of those rite-of-passage things that songwriters should do (you know... how as an amateur wannabe songwriter, one should look at the variety of songs that the great songwriters wrote, and attempt to try out different styles, etc). was thinking about stuff like 'Jenny (867-5309)' and '236-6132'... basically the, uh, number-song genre (if you could even call it a genre; i don't know), when i wrote the song.
except, i didn't want to be too mean and just put up one telephone number in my song, so i made stuff a little less obvious by putting in multiple telephone numbers. (heh, then a friend changed his number that was in the chorus. but, fortunately, i hadn't written the bridge yet at that time. so i put his new number in the bridge. )
and then they're always singing numbers on stuff like sesame street anyway. i like how children's songs can be very clever and ingenious in the way they focus on very simple things (like telly monster singing about the shapes in his room).
& after i wrote the handphone song, i started thinking about how it would be nice to write songs about very banal and mundane things that are part of our daily lives, to wring some emotion and significance out of those things. like shopping lists, bus timetables/routes (have been threatening to put the bus route to my friend's house in a song...), menus, tv schedules, etc. i like the idea of subjective significance in that way - how you can value something in a very personal way: e.g. your girlfriend just broke up with you, you go off to the supermarket and you see a box of nissin cup noodles and you remember eating nissin cup noodles with her and you start feeling sad in front of the noodles. or how you go to a restaurant, look at the menu, see her favourite dish on the menu and get all emo-ish because of that, to the bemusement of the waiter. basically, how little banal details can be vested with a lot of emotional meaning when placed in certain contexts. how an otherwise random string of numbers can suddenly mean something very important to you, etc. yum. so i started trying to assemble and make a group of little songs like that.
(as a sidenote.. i just remembered one of the characters from wong kar wai's 'chungking express' kinda does that, doesn't he? sort of, what with his preoccupation with pineapple cans' expiry dates... subjective significance, albeit perhaps in a slightly different way from the examples i just mentioned.)
sorry if that was kinda long and i went off on a tangent. it's so fun to talk about things like that!
... umm, no i'm not influenced by Regina Spektor, although someone else has also said i sound a bit like her. in terms of just eccentricities like that, i'm more influenced by stuff like broadway (80s mostly), classical music (e.g. like program music, Schubert's lieder, Berlioz's Symphony Fantastique (aaahh when i first heard the execution scene with the pizzicato depicting the head dropping into the basket, i thought that was quite genius and fun...), Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony... obviously, i'm eons and light galaxies away from being able to do what those greats did, but i like some of their ideas and the way they strove to depict images, situations and complex emotions as accurately as they could), and a lot of the kids' song-and-dance videos i watched as a child (i just bought some Wee Sing DVDs again to marvel at the cleverness of some of those songs again), kiiiiiii and whatever else i learnt in sec school drama club. sondheim's also very inspiring. in terms of general music influences besides those, there're (probably very obviously
) the female singer-songwriters like tori amos, bjork, pj harvey, aimee mann, ani difranco, joni mitchell, etc... and some other angsty things from the 90s that me and my angsty friends listened to. portishead, hooverphonic, k's choice... uh maybe stuff like that.am also influenced by books and films as well - e.g. rainer maria rilke, visitor q, the scene in (um) final destination where the lady is staggering around her own kitchen with knives stuck into her while country music happily plays in the background...mahmoud darwish is also probably really interesting to read for lyrical ideas, i think...
but i wrote the handphone song partly because i thought it was one of those rite-of-passage things that songwriters should do (you know... how as an amateur wannabe songwriter, one should look at the variety of songs that the great songwriters wrote, and attempt to try out different styles, etc). was thinking about stuff like 'Jenny (867-5309)' and '236-6132'... basically the, uh, number-song genre (if you could even call it a genre; i don't know), when i wrote the song.
except, i didn't want to be too mean and just put up one telephone number in my song, so i made stuff a little less obvious by putting in multiple telephone numbers. (heh, then a friend changed his number that was in the chorus. but, fortunately, i hadn't written the bridge yet at that time. so i put his new number in the bridge.
)and then they're always singing numbers on stuff like sesame street anyway. i like how children's songs can be very clever and ingenious in the way they focus on very simple things (like telly monster singing about the shapes in his room).
& after i wrote the handphone song, i started thinking about how it would be nice to write songs about very banal and mundane things that are part of our daily lives, to wring some emotion and significance out of those things. like shopping lists, bus timetables/routes (have been threatening to put the bus route to my friend's house in a song...), menus, tv schedules, etc. i like the idea of subjective significance in that way - how you can value something in a very personal way: e.g. your girlfriend just broke up with you, you go off to the supermarket and you see a box of nissin cup noodles and you remember eating nissin cup noodles with her and you start feeling sad in front of the noodles. or how you go to a restaurant, look at the menu, see her favourite dish on the menu and get all emo-ish because of that, to the bemusement of the waiter. basically, how little banal details can be vested with a lot of emotional meaning when placed in certain contexts. how an otherwise random string of numbers can suddenly mean something very important to you, etc. yum. so i started trying to assemble and make a group of little songs like that.
(as a sidenote.. i just remembered one of the characters from wong kar wai's 'chungking express' kinda does that, doesn't he? sort of, what with his preoccupation with pineapple cans' expiry dates... subjective significance, albeit perhaps in a slightly different way from the examples i just mentioned.)
sorry if that was kinda long and i went off on a tangent. it's so fun to talk about things like that!
velvetrevolver
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You're wonderful !!! You're gonna make it big!
charleswelham
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ok...
can be classified as cute but is not a chart hitting song.
can be classified as cute but is not a chart hitting song.
