I love it when music just clicks. When you're shopping in a store and hear a song you haven't heard before and it stops you in your tracks, or you hear something that you haven't heard in a while that makes you go 'ah! I forgot about this song', or you hear something in your head that just comes to you (I just love when this happens) and you scan your memory of where it came from but you're pretty sure it was just an organic idea, maybe stemmed from the bass-y beat coming from someone's car down the road or the sound of the train pulling out of the station or your own footsteps.
George and I sat down one night recently and decided to write a song. Sometimes this doesn't work for me- it's too much pressure to have to come up with something and I feel put on the spot. But this time it was very natural. We pulled out an old jam El Jezel had created that I had written down in my music notebook, something we had forgotten. Sometimes it's good to pull out something like that so that you don't have any preconceived notions of what it was 'supposed to be'- you have a little distance from it and it becomes fresh again. We found a cool beat on the drum machine and each element of the song fell into place that night, one piece at a time. By the end of it I was writing lyrics so quickly that it became a full song that we decided to debut at the Songwriter's Salon at Fort Useless a week ago. If only everything were that easy.
