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VAUDEVILLE ACCENT ROCK. Shortlisted for the Australian Songwriter's Association Annual National Songwriting Contest 2008 in the Open category (top 100). 70's me off,burn your bras,injustice of the double standards women still endure. Lyrics written many years ago during the aftermath of an abusive relationship, domestic violence. My advise is: hold onto your own, it is your best defense, half of the battle is the courage to leave, self esteem which not much of is left if you have allowed pieces of you to fall away to keep the peace. Don't lose the things that make up you. Why does society still expect a woman to 'mellow out' in a marriage/family situation? After all we've fought for? It is politically incorrect to speak of a woman's place in the kitchen etc, but it is still thunk. Don't patronise us with 'go girl' either, just want to be free like them.
Tom felt uncomfortable being a male in the video, so I gave him a big fluffy hat from the Royal Show, and a pair of sunglasses. Then he had to play around with the video FX until we were both barely recognisable.
Yes this is a pretty inyourface sounding song, I meant for it to be, but in a tongue-in-cheek way.
When I first presented Tom with the lyrics way back in the start of our partnership, I asked for a punk style, it didn't work out and he ended up refusing to do it because he felt uncomfortable being a male involved with it. After several months of writing other songs happily together, and earning his trust, reciprocated, I said to him one day "I want a track .. with a disco/rock style (we haven't tried that before) with so many bars for verses, so many bars for chorus, etc" He agreed and sent this music to me that afternoon. He instructed, "don't sing on the riff parts, you'll hear which one's I mean, they're little solo's and I played them deliberately too difficult to sing to". I'm not a musician, so even though it was tricky to think of a melody ontop of those parts, I didn't click they were the parts he meant. I took a walk to the shops with it all in my head and by the time I got home I was chuffed to have figured out a way to sing my lyrics on those parts (the DENT-DENT THEIR FOUNDLESS .. CROWN! etc parts). When I sent it back, proud of my cleverness, he said "I told you not to sing on those parts!" but I was too attatched to my achievement to let it go and insisted it stay that way, he added that he enjoyed it anyway. It was then built on with extra guitar (the power chords etc).
It was the half-success of this song in the ASA songwriting contest that indicated to me to focus on the 'vaudeville' style which is what I know anyway from all those years growing up with jazz, tap and ballet dancing. The focused style since then can be heard in my new songs on our MySpace. www.myspace.com/orangebaskets
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Stay Awakeby OrangeBaskets249 views
A very different type of protest song. Upbeat, original and enjoyable.
Dsydk11 4 years ago