Anytime - Early & Rough (scratch vocal)

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Well ... this post signals my first return to the studio behind the console to work on a new musical project since releasing "New & Improved" roughly six months ago.

I'm mostly playing with textures in this mix, and my stymie is, as usual, lyric. The vocal done here is a dummy track to lend melody w/o meaning.

Here's my challenge. I want to appropriately marry the intent of the lyric to the feel of the music. What does the music itself strike you as being "about"?

Thanks for the listen and the help!

Kev-
 
Did anyone here "favorite" this on Soundcloud? After two plays ... it had garnered one "favorite" ... which is unusual -- and this is the only place I posted it. Curious only.

Also ... was the question I asked above a bit too oblique and hard to answer?

Edit: now up to two favorites in 5 plays (and one of them was mine) :)
 
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Here's my challenge. I want to appropriately marry the intent of the lyric to the feel of the music. What does the music itself strike you as being "about"?
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The intent of the lyric is to hang some words on what's coming to expression through you right now. It sounds muscular to me, coming out of that fond sentimental opening.

Sometimes, if the words aren't just jumping out of me, what I'll do is imagine a character or a person I want to sing the song - in the past I've chosen characters like the wife of Richard Lionheart, or an alien stalker, or a snake, or God. I find that putting on a 'mask' does two things - it frees me up to write the words, and even more fundamentally than that, the character I choose to be the lyricist is often the answer to the question 'what's this song about'?
 
The music sounds 80's synth blue eyed soul to me.
Sounds like a protagonist bemoaning the difficulties ascending complication #3 in the plot.
 
Your lyric assignment for this song - write a song about trying to get away from a fat chick at a bar.

Come back when you're done.
 
Good suggestions all ... although believe it or not, Trip's suggestion comes closest to my interpretation of it. To me it sounds ... call it, "urban burlesque". Does anyone else get that?

Originally, the song was about a gorgeous woman who knew she could "have" any guy give her anything she wanted -- "Anytime I want it, I just smile and I can get it." ... and she found not having to work for anything soul sucking -- but then I came up with this arrangement and the lyric no longer seemed to fit the style of music.
 
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Originally, the song was about a gorgeous woman who knew she could "have" any guy give her anything she wanted -- "Anytime I want it, I just smile and I can get it." ... and she found not having to work for anything soul sucking -- but then I came up with this arrangement and the lyric no longer seemed to fit the style of music.
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There have been a million songs written about that. Escaping fat chicks at bars? Not so much.
 
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