{"id":839,"date":"2010-05-29T19:40:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T18:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/?p=839"},"modified":"2010-05-29T20:03:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T19:03:51","slug":"this-new-song-for-may-a-new-song-for-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/archives\/839","title":{"rendered":"“This (new song for May)” – a new song for May"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Edit: I think youtube converted the bitrate of the music in this video badly, and the sound suffers. Next time I’ll upload a 41,000 video instead of a 48,000 video.<\/p>\n

In my list of 50 goals and plans for 2010 I wrote \u00e2\u20ac\u01536.1 Write an album\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s-worth of new songs and record them by the end of the year\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m interpreting as one song per month.<\/p>\n

On Thursday night I started writing this song, and came up with the chords and melody. I had no clue what the song would be about, so I filled in a few lines with “The chorus is the inverse of the verse” and “The middle eight at first seems unique.” Then I went to sleep, and woke up on Friday with the thought, “I’m going to write the entire song about itself.”<\/p>\n

So I did. I named it “This”, probably the most self-referential name for anything, with the subtitle “new song for May”, which it also is, and is also a line in the song too.<\/p>\n

I decided to record this one properly, instead of just playing it on the guitar or piano. Because it’s a song about writing a pop song, I went for a quite modern pop production, with full auto-tune and dance beats. It took about 3 hours on Friday evening, when I could have been doing something more important, but I really like the end result. Maybe I’ll actually write some real words for the song, but I doubt it. <\/p>\n

And today I went for yet another cycle around the old airport, so thought I might as well include a 2050m bike ride video as the official music video. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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