"alleyways1 with Soup / Pretty Boy !!! cover"
we pulled out this weird old "guitar" we inherited from Grandpa Denis called the mike miller foot bass. it has two thick "strings" that you're supposed to press with your toes, and a simple pickup. it's also on a weird whole-step scale, so you have to get creative playing some basslines. me and my brother started messing around with it, and eventually started playing it with our fingers (it was a frustrating instrument to play properly).
eventually he wrote a really catchy riff on the thing. i had it stuck in my head long after we put the bass down, and i had to write lyrics for it.
i wrote a song about seeing a guy i recognized at a show i had been to recently. i didn't say much besides a passing "hello," but i wrote the song kinda fantasizing about what would happen if i started flirting with him. i thought it was kinda funny
i showed it to my brother. he said he didn't really get how it fit the riff. so, with his permission, i took the riff for myself.
Pretty Boy !!! ended up being my most popular song. i don't have a lot of streams, but that song easily has the most.
i think songwriting is how i cope with a lot of things.
gender. love. anxiety. sadness.
i think instead of telling people i love them, i turn that love into songs. and then i share those songs with the world, and i hope that the people that i love connect the dots. i don't know that that's a healthy thing to do.
i don't know if i'm making sense.
i don't know anyth
i've written songs about people without telling them about feelings they didn't know i had and i'm sorry for doing it even if it's not even a bad thing and even if nobody was hurt and even if it's normal i'm sorry for doing it because i don't think it's fair to them. but then i do it again. because i don't know how to do anything else.