the wheel of the ocean.
i am quitefreaking vacillating between having my next album be instrumental and not. i have a ton of musical ideas that could be album-worthy, but no lyrics and hardly any vocal ideas at all. i HAVE tried to write some pop songs with words recently, and i just am not feeling the lyrical side of things. i hate it all. it feels really forced. hopefully that will pass.
i kind of want to start from scratch with a new "band" name and everything. i KNOW i can write music and melodies, and part of me says that i was never that great of a singer to begin with, so why not just forget about vocals? but at the same time, even though i listen to a lot more instrumental music now than i used to, all of my favorite music is pop music with vocals. and also, i have never done an instrumental album before, other than the ambient quarks, but if i did an instrumental album it wouldn't be ambient, it would be melodic and stuff. it's a totally different bear, and i have no idea how to attack it.
i think i just feel kind of shitty because i don't already have another bunch of songs after finishing an album, for the first time ever. is it really true, the thing that i've always hated about good bands getting old?...that they start to take longer and longer to make albums? i've always kind of prided myself on being prolific, but i just don't feel like i can keep doing it at that pace. so i'm starting to second guess everything when it comes to what comes next.
BUT i probably can't bring myself to write and record a full instrumental album, as much as i like the idea. i'm just so conditioned to writing pop songs, and it kind of annoys me sometimes. guh. hopefully i'll figure out my next move sooner rather than later. i tend to get kind of nuts otherwise.
what's a fluff?
i kind of want to start from scratch with a new "band" name and everything. i KNOW i can write music and melodies, and part of me says that i was never that great of a singer to begin with, so why not just forget about vocals? but at the same time, even though i listen to a lot more instrumental music now than i used to, all of my favorite music is pop music with vocals. and also, i have never done an instrumental album before, other than the ambient quarks, but if i did an instrumental album it wouldn't be ambient, it would be melodic and stuff. it's a totally different bear, and i have no idea how to attack it.
i think i just feel kind of shitty because i don't already have another bunch of songs after finishing an album, for the first time ever. is it really true, the thing that i've always hated about good bands getting old?...that they start to take longer and longer to make albums? i've always kind of prided myself on being prolific, but i just don't feel like i can keep doing it at that pace. so i'm starting to second guess everything when it comes to what comes next.
BUT i probably can't bring myself to write and record a full instrumental album, as much as i like the idea. i'm just so conditioned to writing pop songs, and it kind of annoys me sometimes. guh. hopefully i'll figure out my next move sooner rather than later. i tend to get kind of nuts otherwise.
what's a fluff?