"No New Year's Day to celebrate
No chocolate covered candy hearts to give away
No first of spring
No song to sing
In fact here's just another ordinary day" - Stevie Wonder - 'I Just Called To Say I Love You'
"I Don't Need No Dreams When I'm By Your Side
Every Moment Takes Me To Paradise
Darlin', Let Me Hold You
Warm You In My Arms And Melt Your Fears Away
Show You All The Magic That A Perfect Love Can
Make
I Need You Night And Day?" - Michael Jackson - 'Baby Be Mine'
"A foreign beauty so exotic
When she smiled at me
She took my breath away
She's reminiscent of a goddess
It's a shame that we could not communicate
How do I say" - Usher - 'How do I say'
"You should be in magazines, baby
The world should know who you are
Can't help myself from staring
Forgive me, can't turn away
I'm caught up in your eyes" - Jared Jones - 'Gorgeous Girl'
These are just a few lyrics from some of my favorite artists, and artists who inspire my own music. With Valentine's Day quickly approaching, and the sale of Hallmark cards, chocolate candy, and red roses about to spike, it's a great time to highlight the lyrics in love songs. Are these lyrics reminiscent of what's being said to you ladies? Have you said something like this to your ladies fellas?
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Monday, February 14, 2011
Love Song Favorites
Michael Jackson's -"Baby Be Mine", and Stevie Wonder's "You are the Sunshine of my Life", are two of my favorite love songs of all time!! I used to play "Baby Be Mine" on repeat while walking home from elementary school thinking about the girl I was too shy to talk too! (Repeat meant rewind on the Sony Walkman!)
Along with celebrating my 25th birthday today, I'm reminded of why I write songs! When I was a senior in high school, I wrote my English research paper on, "Romantic Love through the Lyrics of Stevie Wonder". One of my favorite papers I had ever done. As a writer and recording artists, I want to separate myself from the others by writing lyrics that touch the heart a lot more than others. You won't hear me singing a lot about sex (unless you read more into "Dishes (Remix)", or hittin clubs, but more about a "Gorgeous Girl', with such a natural beauty that she doesn't need any make up on. Or my most popular song on Youtube, "Why I Love You" (close to over a combined 700,000 views). Or even my "Not In Love Yet" record, which gives the reason why some girls don't hear those words from their boyfriends! So I hope on this Valentine's Day, February 14, 2011, that one of these songs becomes one of you "love song" favorites.
Oh yeah, and don't bite your tongue today, and not say anything to the one you love, or you might end up with "What Could've Been"
Along with celebrating my 25th birthday today, I'm reminded of why I write songs! When I was a senior in high school, I wrote my English research paper on, "Romantic Love through the Lyrics of Stevie Wonder". One of my favorite papers I had ever done. As a writer and recording artists, I want to separate myself from the others by writing lyrics that touch the heart a lot more than others. You won't hear me singing a lot about sex (unless you read more into "Dishes (Remix)", or hittin clubs, but more about a "Gorgeous Girl', with such a natural beauty that she doesn't need any make up on. Or my most popular song on Youtube, "Why I Love You" (close to over a combined 700,000 views). Or even my "Not In Love Yet" record, which gives the reason why some girls don't hear those words from their boyfriends! So I hope on this Valentine's Day, February 14, 2011, that one of these songs becomes one of you "love song" favorites.
Oh yeah, and don't bite your tongue today, and not say anything to the one you love, or you might end up with "What Could've Been"
Friday, September 10, 2010
Kisses, Rollerskates, and Your Favorite Songs
Do you remember the Walkman? Seems like only yesterday that I was hitting that rewind button over and over to replay my favorite song, "Baby Be Mine", from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" cassette tape. That song inspired my dream at the time, to ask my fourth grade crush to be my girlfriend. I had it all prepared, the white teddy bear with a "Be Mine" heart, and a box of Hershey's Kiss Chocolates. With Valentine's Day being my birthday, how could she refuse? I would never find out. Naturally shy even to this day, I only had the courage enough to quickly jump out of my mother's van on the way home, and hand Rochelle the teddy bear. Coward!
But I continued to play the song. It reminded me of everything I had planned. So for me, songs inspire dreams. They help you to make a move (though I didn't go through with mine back then). It also sparks the memory. Think of your favorite song, and I'm curious why it became your favorite song. What was the moment? What were you doing?
That is where my initial passion for songs started; when I realized how powerful they could be. But being shy more than anything is why I had to start writing songs. When I was 13, my church youth group went on a field trip to a roller-skating rink in Southern Massachusetts, Skatetown USA. While waiting in line at the snack bar, I noticed this gorgeous looking girl with a curly-haired ponytail, and a red shirt. I could not take my eyes off of her. I played it off like my friend was the one who wanted to know her name, and the girl's friend told me. Naudia. You can guess what happened...I didn't do anything. Didn't ask her to skate with me. Didn't ask if I could buy her some ice cream. But I did write about it when I got home.
Writing became my outlet. Instead of kicking myself and enduring sleepless nights because of what I didn't do, I wrote about her. The only way I knew how to record at the time was to have two tapes rolling on my karaoke machine. When I recorded on one, I would move that one over to the play-only side, and have the new tape on the record side to record while the other was playing. Sounds confusing but it was very simple. So it began.
In songwriting, what's more satisfying than a five-paragraph e-mail from a fan of mine telling me how much one of my songs changed her life, or having someone tell me that something I wrote made them cry? And all off of songs inspired by personal situations, of what myself or others have been through. To be able to put my feelings and thoughts out there, and have that much of an effect on people...that's why I write.
But I continued to play the song. It reminded me of everything I had planned. So for me, songs inspire dreams. They help you to make a move (though I didn't go through with mine back then). It also sparks the memory. Think of your favorite song, and I'm curious why it became your favorite song. What was the moment? What were you doing?
That is where my initial passion for songs started; when I realized how powerful they could be. But being shy more than anything is why I had to start writing songs. When I was 13, my church youth group went on a field trip to a roller-skating rink in Southern Massachusetts, Skatetown USA. While waiting in line at the snack bar, I noticed this gorgeous looking girl with a curly-haired ponytail, and a red shirt. I could not take my eyes off of her. I played it off like my friend was the one who wanted to know her name, and the girl's friend told me. Naudia. You can guess what happened...I didn't do anything. Didn't ask her to skate with me. Didn't ask if I could buy her some ice cream. But I did write about it when I got home.
Writing became my outlet. Instead of kicking myself and enduring sleepless nights because of what I didn't do, I wrote about her. The only way I knew how to record at the time was to have two tapes rolling on my karaoke machine. When I recorded on one, I would move that one over to the play-only side, and have the new tape on the record side to record while the other was playing. Sounds confusing but it was very simple. So it began.
In songwriting, what's more satisfying than a five-paragraph e-mail from a fan of mine telling me how much one of my songs changed her life, or having someone tell me that something I wrote made them cry? And all off of songs inspired by personal situations, of what myself or others have been through. To be able to put my feelings and thoughts out there, and have that much of an effect on people...that's why I write.
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