Songwriting Notes: Final Transmission (Part 1 of 2)

This song is by far the quickest I've ever recorded, it was about 3 days from conception to release. The release was dragged out by the album art issues, but the song itself was easy to write. That's because it doesn't matter.

I wrote the type of music I did, because the song was for me. Hey, I've TRIED doing it the other way, writing stuff I thought people would like. That's not my journey, I guess. I spend years on a song (and I have on some of them) and people are just like 'meh'. Meanwhile, Nikki Azalea (or whoever) releases more turgid shit that they didn't even write and everyone loses their god damned mind.

Point is, the amount of effort you put into something is utterly meaningless to the consumer. That's the price of so-called 'glamour'.

I personally can't fucking stand the glamour of art, I think we tell each other more than enough lies already.

The music industry is literally Kayfabe.
THERE.
I SAID IT.

So, I wrote this song, with meaningless lyrics, and electro-style music that only I will like.

But the song only exists as a carrier for the morse code message. There's your fucking 'glamour'.

And I must have done okay at that, because most people I show it to just think it's a shitty electro song, and they don't even NOTICE the morse code until it's pointed out to them.

It is a shitty song - I'm fully aware of that, but I like it, and surely that counts for something.

But the message, the idea of the song, the comment I'm making about 'hidden signals' - THAT I fucking NAILED.  Also, the fact that others don't really dig on it is WHY IT WORKS. If people liked it, they'd listen better, and hear the morse code.

This is the first time I've been able to accurately take an idea and make it sound EXACTLY like I wanted.

Well, in any song that matters to ME. I mean, sure I've written lots of acoustic stuff that sounded like I wanted it to, but so what? Most guitarists can do that.

If you want to hear unimaginative crap, then try another artist, someone who peddles that kind of garbage.

Or just stick around here, I guess - I'm probably not going to be able to keep up this 'artistic integrity' bullshit up for long. ;)