{"id":447,"date":"2019-01-28T03:38:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T03:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/?p=447"},"modified":"2019-01-28T03:38:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T03:38:14","slug":"abandoned-song-re-imagined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/abandoned-song-re-imagined\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandoned Song Re-imagined"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To summarize my last post, I destroyed &#8220;Clap For Youself&#8221; in the car on the way to work. Bye-bye. On the way home,  I &#8220;saw&#8221; it, all mixed up, non linear, paired with an intense intuition in my gut that felt, &#8220;don&#8217;t give up&#8221;.   And that&#8217;s where I left off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To follow up, I since sat in the living room with my acoustic in a narrow sliver of time I had one evening that week. The completely new chorus came to me within maybe 2 minutes. This after slaving for months with the other version. Also, the next morning, again in a sliver of time while I got ready for work, the words in the old last version slid into place. The new melody forced it to rewrite itself. It became concise, subtle, and pinpointed what I was trying to say all along but couldn&#8217;t.  At it&#8217;s heart, it&#8217;s a song about loneliness and trying to overcome it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ClapNew1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">You still can hear<br>People cheer<br>If you listen through time<br>Like the faintest of chimes<br>On a whisper's wind<br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>This is quite a rough version, nowhere near what it will be if it ever gets &#8220;released&#8221;.  We are used to &#8220;finished products&#8221; in music, so I hope you&#8217;ll bear with me through these early stages. After all, I know hip hop artists who wait years for their producers to &#8220;drop&#8221; their single,  because it&#8217;s not polished enough. This is a blog about a creative process, not a bid for a Grammy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2448\" height=\"3264\" data-attachment-id=\"451\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/abandoned-song-re-imagined\/benjaminswedding2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BenjaminsWedding2.jpg?fit=2448%2C3264&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2448,3264\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-J727T&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1548625862&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;2.9&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;40&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00196078431373&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BenjaminsWedding2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BenjaminsWedding2.jpg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BenjaminsWedding2.jpg?fit=525%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BenjaminsWedding2.jpg?fit=525%2C700\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"451\" data-link=\"http:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=451\" class=\"wp-image-451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BenjaminsWedding2.jpg?w=2448&amp;ssl=1 2448w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BenjaminsWedding2.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BenjaminsWedding2.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BenjaminsWedding2.jpg?w=1050&amp;ssl=1 1050w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BenjaminsWedding2.jpg?w=1575&amp;ssl=1 1575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Me &amp; my dad at my cousin&#8217;s wedding circa 2004.  He was one of my biggest fans in everything I did. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Serena Williams lost the Australian Open in only the quarter finals. My hero looked tired, flat footed, slow and &#8230;gasp&#8230;still bloated with baby weight.  I myself am no skinny mini, so I say without judgement, I just&#8230;wanted my hero back. And I wanted to cry. &#8220;This could be it&#8221;, I thought, which I&#8217;m sure was the sentiment of so many others.  But in the interview after the match, she said with 100% confidence that she WILL win again, it&#8217;s only a matter of time, implying that Margaret Court record is hers for the taking,  just not quite yet. And I thought, who am I to disbelieve her? She may be sluggish and awkward but if Serena Williams says she is going to come back, then Serena Williams is going to come back.  And I will make dance music like I hear on Sirus XM&#8217;s BPM station.  It takes a lot of patience building loops, and envisioning songs when you&#8217;re used to writing on an acoustic guitar. But it is only a matter of time.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>s\/n: There is a copyright on the earlier version, but it&#8217;s so easy to &#8220;publish&#8221; these days,  which is of equal importance to registering in D.C. and indeed is a copyright, albeit unregistered. Besides&#8230;who reading my blog is going to steal anything?? It will have a registered copyright soon enough. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To summarize my last post, I destroyed &#8220;Clap For Youself&#8221; in the car on the way to work. Bye-bye. On the way home, I &#8220;saw&#8221; it, all mixed up, non linear, paired with an intense intuition in my gut that felt, &#8220;don&#8217;t give up&#8221;. And that&#8217;s where I left off. To follow up, I since &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/abandoned-song-re-imagined\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Abandoned Song Re-imagined&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8QAwT-7d","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blindingtwinkle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}