I’m a guy who likes to find the middle and understand everybody’s side so I can make my decision. With “Equally Divided,” it is the same thing. It’s simple, nothing deep, just the way I am. Even the plastic the food is put into is killing us! In the chorus, I say, “We pay, they kill, we eat the poison.” In the verse, I kept it really simple, “I don’t need to be right, I don’t have to put up a fight, I’m not your enemy, no one listens to me” I felt like everyone is the enemy and no one is listening to anybody. I was watching the news again and went down the rabbit hole of how horrible the food we eat is. “The Poison” is about all the food corporations that make, which is killing all of us, even people like me who are trying to be organic. Can you share some insights into those two songs? “Equally Divided” and “The Poison” have powerful messages. I figured this is what it is that I’m trying to say. The chorus on “Social Distancing” was low and didn’t go anywhere, so it won’t be a hit song played on the radio. I figured this is not the time to lose your mind!. I got a weird feeling when I went outside during the locked down, even with the highways being empty. Sometimes I’ll watch the news and come up with ideas like on the song “Social Distancing.” I was bombarded for months of hearing phrases like COVID, black & white, and red & blue. Whatever I’m thinking about at the moment. When crafting lyrics, what topics do you like to focus on?
Now I always have roommates with who I can share ideas, and they will provide me with input like, “That’s cool!” There were times they would ask me to send a file over email, but everyone was too busy to listen yet alone give me feedback, so I backed off. We all got older and stopped hanging out on Saturday nights drinking because we all have wives and kids now. Twenty years ago, I used to have a group of people I hung out with who would do that. Unless you are AC/DC, that is genius! If I were in AC/DC, I would play 16th notes all night long, but I like to mix things up.ĭo you have a person you can trust to use as a sounding board to run the songs by? The thing I love about making music is that I get to switch things up because when you are sitting in the same spot, there is no more joy there, and you are not getting anyone’s point of view. So, for that album, I spewed out all these songs in a couple of weeks, knowing that someone wasn’t going to tell me there was anything wrong with it. They would say, “I like that one, but not that one, and that one is just okay!” It can be hard on your ego determining what song will get done. Oh yeah, my first solo record was so relieving because I had all these songs that I didn’t have to present to my band-mates, who are very picky about everything. When writing and working on a song, how do you know which band it will work best in? I asked him if he could sequence my album, and he sent it back to me in a week! I’m glad you like it. He sequenced the songs for the Grammys two years ago, and his girlfriend placed the songs into the Grammys. I’ll tell my friend who sequenced it that you said so. Was it hard to develop a sequence order, so it all flowed nicely the way it does? “Joy Bomb” offers tremendous musical diversity with many different tempos. Check out their conversation transcript below, and remember that for more interviews and other daily content, make sure to follow Sonic Perspectives on Facebook, Flipboardand Twitter, and subscribe to our YouTube channel to be notified about new content we publish on a daily basis. Correspondent Robert Cavuoto spoke to dUg for an in-depth discussion about the writing of “Joy Bomb” and why he always puts such an extreme effort into seeking the ultimate expression in a song.
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