An Old Style Lyric Against A Modern Sound - Interview

The music that i loved listening to

And i grew up was coldporter

Big band era style music

It was really fascinated with

Especially coldporter

Because he wrote his music and his lyrics

And it was dance and it was big band swing music

But it had really clever melodies and very clever

Lyrics and there's a few like

Social comments in there

It talked a lot about sexuality of the time

But it was always been quite cleverly

Never pulled a punch

Nothing ever dirty necessarily and i

That's one of the things

That made me really want to start writing songs

And as i started finishing this way

I started playing around with this song um

The new wild west where i take a really

Like just a protest song

A folk song it's in six eight

Had six minutes long and it doesn't have a course

I don't think

Very lyrical

And i put it to like a really modern programmed track

And i just loved the juxtaphistician of it

To me

It reminded me what i loved about coleporter music

You could dance and move to it and it was really modern

But i took a really kind of old style lyric

Against this modern sound

And it really started to fascinate me

And i really started to do a lot of dance remixes

And as i got into doing my next record

That sort of carried over

Especially because

We were headed into war at that time

It was just the beginning of the war

And i was just tired of worrying

I was tired of stressing i was tired of

Everything brought me down

And i wanted to make a record

That you could really have fun in

I just imagine that

The dance halls crowded in the forties

During the wars

And people packed in because they just

Want to have fun

And they want to explore the sexuality

But i didn't wanna dumb it down at all

And so i thought back to those coal porter records

And i tried to make a really smart

Savvy deep dance record basically

With great pop melodies really great catchy melodies

And to me that's a compliment of pop melody

That's what colporta did or the beatles did

To put really great clever lyrics

I even like

Would take

Some songs and use tin pan alley rhyme schemes

And put those against really modern tracks

For me it was really fun

Plus i love iron air

Like to layer the irony of a sound against a lyric

You know

Maybe people don't always go that deep into the song

But if you want to

You can and i think that's fun

So if you hear the record over and over

It'll take you somewhere else