Unfinished Song Vault: Inside... (Patreon)

Today I decided to share something a little different...and as short as me 😂

I know this is only 3 seconds long, but I wanted to share this because I think it's an important part of songwriting, at least for me, that doesn't really get talked about. As a songwriter, it's common to write down/record everything you come up with. We learn that the best way to get to something good is to write a bunch of shitty pieces 😅

Of course it's not quite that simple and you're never trying to write something that sucks, but it happens. Not every line or every idea is a winner. And as someone who struggles so intensely with feeling inadequate, that it a tough lesson to learn, but that's a story for another day (maybe?).

I wanted to share this because I think that a part of writing/recording everything even if it sucks is also just writing random single lines or short strings of words. Sometimes, as is the case with this particular recording, it's literally only like...maybe half a line 🫣 There is absolutely no story, no singular set meaning to these words. They could be interpreted so many ways with so many different possible contexts leading into them. They're basically nothing.

As much as I personally hate things being so open-ended, I think it's also kind of freeing... It could go anywhere. This piece could be implanted into so many other things. These are the pieces I go back to when I'm stuck in a rut with writing. The pieces that I honestly don't even know what they're about because ultimately, they could be about whatever the heck I want; which is convenient if I have another half-idea and I can combine them!

Like little song stem cells. Turning those nothings into something 😎

ps. Yes, I often awkwardly try to record things I think of as discretely as possible while out in public 😅🙈