Well, I got really disgusted with my songwriting mid-way through FAWM and stopped posting here.
Here is a kind of FAWM wrap up though...song by song.
Songs from the first week of FAWM:
01. Unemployed Astronaut - This was written for the Week 1 Challenge: Careers. In the news at this time was the cutting of NASA's budget by Obama. So, I wrote a song about a disgruntled/fired astronaut. There are a few good lines in this song, but the demo is just me and an acoustic in a live take. I didn't even use a click track so I couldn't add drums.
02. Let's Get Bloody - This was written for a Songfight!. Right off, I hated the title. I wrote two songs that made fun of the whole teenager/vampire thing going on now, but that seemed kind of pedestrian. So, I wrote a quick punk song about getting trashed and breaking the law. I like the swing drums at the start. Not the best song, though, overall.
03. Reboot - This was going to be my theme. I was going to change my songwriting and evolve it to a new level. That didn't happen. I recorded a full-on rock version of this song, but didn't have time to get the vocals right, so I ended up doing another live acoustic take. I added a background vocal for the chorus to give that part a bit of depth. I was literally singing parts of this for the first time on the recording, so the vocals are kind of weak in places. The demo for this was also recorded much later in the month.
Overall, with the disappointment of the Reboot song and hating the title for the Songfight! song, my FAWM-love was running pretty low. I was hoping to kind of start over for the second week. Also, at this point, I abandoned my FAWM-plan outlined in previous posts. I wanted to write fresher songs and not ideas that I have been kicking around for months.
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