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Discussion: ATRL Songwriter's Thread | Jacktrus gain dual #1
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Originally posted by Jackson
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Lol I was just browsing your soundcloud, your voice sounds soo good here 
Those head notes>>>
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Originally posted by BILLIONAIRE✘BOY
Lol I was just browsing your soundcloud, your voice sounds soo good here
Those head notes>>> |
Oh thanks  That one's definitely a favorite when I perform at open mics and stuff. I kinda hate the person I wrote it about now but still a good song
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Originally posted by KeshasFansRose
I forgot to continue posting my titles a couple months ago, so:
 Album 1: GEMINILast Summer
What You Want
Friday Night
Fallen
Devil's Drum
Masquerade
Faceless
Poison
Disaster and Danger
I Hope You Go
Deadly Nightshade
Gemini
Horror Show
Running Free
Album 2: DYSTOPIA
Now You're Alone
Hurt You More Than You Think
Open Road
Dystopia
Fortune
Queen of Clubs
We're Not ready
Losing Control
Good Times Never Last
Strange Love Feels Good
The Way I Play It
Lost You
Freedom of Love
Album 3: WILDFIRE
Futuristic Love
I’m In Control
Goldmine (of fun)
Wildfire
Run For It
Just For Tonight
I Can Be Good (interlude)
Holy Ground
Led Me Blind
Moving On Through
Hurricane
Play, Pause and Rewind
Break Out
I’m Not Your Type
Album 4: AFTERTASTE
Aftertaste
Flashback
Closer
Radio Waves
One For Me
Constellations
Make Me Feel It
Talk To Me (In Melody)
Hunting Ground
Work
Heartfaker
Game over
Album 5 (in progress): AWAY FOR THE WEEKEND
Searching
Away for the weekend
Black rose garden
Dirty gold
Rough love
Vegas nights
Thinking of you
We stay young
Synchronise
Heard it all before
Silence
Trying to be heard
I don’t need no one
Down in one
Misfits in our home
Poseidon
Eternal Summer
One More Night
Take Me Home
Album 6 (in progress): WE KILLED OUR INNOCENCE
We Killed Our Innocence
Hole Where Your Heart Lies
Explosions
Blue Light District
Information Overload
Run To Your Devil
This Is How It Goes
Dancing With No Limits |
I love your album titles. Away for the Weekend sounds iconic, definitely gonna be your biggest era 
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Originally posted by Jackson
I love your album titles. Away for the Weekend sounds iconic, definitely gonna be your biggest era |
Thank you!!  That's so weird coz it definitely feels like my Teenage Dream/ 1989 era as I'm writing it. Everything feels a big step up from the previous 4, hence ditching the one word titles. I'm really proud so far. I might make it 25 tracks Delirium teas. Lemme know what you think of the song titles.
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Oh thanks That one's definitely a favorite when I perform at open mics and stuff. I kinda hate the person I wrote it about now but still a good song |
Yeah, I've been there before 
The guy I wrote one of my songs called "Superman" about is literally in jail as we speak 
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Originally posted by mxtthewdelrey
ugh at all of these everything about them is a yes |
Stan Matt!
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Originally posted by Jackson
I definitely like that juxtaposition and how you are trying to evolve and not rehash old ideas. My firs album is all about escape, pain, growing up and becoming your own person. The second album is about hope and self acceptance, so there's a definite growth there. The second album is also more direct and literal, as you said yours was while the first is really metaphorical and indirect in its meanings. This one is also being written a lot faster because my first was written spring 2013-summer 2015 and this one I just started writing last fall
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I love how yours are so personal, authenticity is something that's important for me, and they're also quite relatable which I always feel mine really aren't in a way. A lot of the time I write about scenarios that don't exist, as a way to write about an emotion. That's why I called my first album Enigma, because only three songs actually dealt with reality (the last three). I was always writing about this enigma that did not exist. That year I was out of school and a little isolated and lonely so it probably stemmed from that. I would say Enigma as an album is about a lack of reality, focusing on dreams and emotion (and vulnerability as such). With the second album, Filter, I started that when I moved away and began university, so that in itself was a huge juxtaposition to my life before. On that, I write more about reality and the things I dealt with, particularly crushes but also some other growing up stuff. I called it Filter because, even here when I write about more real situations and whatnot, they still keep that dreamlike, distant feel because my writing is a little poetic and enigmatic (though I also try to branch into less, and at some times more, poetic areas on it), as if it's looking at my life through a filter.
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Originally posted by KeshasFansRose
Thank you!! That's so weird coz it definitely feels like my Teenage Dream/ 1989 era as I'm writing it. Everything feels a big step up from the previous 4, hence ditching the one word titles. I'm really proud so far. I might make it 25 tracks Delirium teas. Lemme know what you think of the song titles. |
Girl.. No album needs 25 tracks. Cut the fat.
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I was bored the other day so I wrote a whole bunch of AHS themed songs  I'll post them/some previews later
01 Monsters Among Us
02 Flicker
03 Dark Cousin
04 Unholy Night
05 Test of Strength
06 Chutes and Ladders
07 The Replacements
08 The Sacred Taking
09 Smoldering Children
10 She Wants Revenge
11 Orphans
12 Spilt Milk
13 Madness Ends
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MAKE ME FEEL IT:
(Verse 1)
You came to take me just in time
You held me through the fear of God
When I told you please don’t ever stop
You said I’m your ritual tonight
And I call out shy, in my dreams I ride
Through your smoke filled kiss, you’re haunting me
I’m your fantasy and our love’s a sin
But tonight we’re up for anything
(Chorus)
Touch me and make me feel it
Touch me and make me feel it
Touch me and make me feel it
And make me, feel it, feel it
(Verse 2)
I’ve felt defeat that you don’t know
A time of war inside our bones
From your mind, it burns and fills the room
A call of love, a touch of fate
And we know it’s near
Oh the rising sun
Say goodbye to love, but it’s just too tough
I know what happens when I’m all too much
(Chorus) X2
(Bridge)
With your touch I cannot fall
With your touch I cannot fall
With your touch I cannot fall
With your touch I cannot fall
A call of love
We cannot fall
(Chorus)
(Outro) X2
With your touch I cannot fall
With your touch I cannot fall
With your touch I cannot fall
With your touch I cannot fall
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Originally posted by KeshasFansRose
MAKE ME FEEL IT:
(Verse 1)
You came to take me just in time
You held me through the fear of God
When I told you please don’t ever stop
You said I’m your ritual tonight
And I call out shy, in my dreams I ride
Through your smoke filled kiss, you’re haunting me
I’m your fantasy and our love’s a sin
But tonight we’re up for anything
(Chorus)
Touch me and make me feel it
Touch me and make me feel it
Touch me and make me feel it
And make me, feel it, feel it
(Verse 2)
I’ve felt defeat that you don’t know
A time of war inside our bones
From your mind, it burns and fills the room
A call of love, a touch of fate
And we know it’s near
Oh the rising sun
Say goodbye to love, but it’s just too tough
I know what happens when I’m all too much
(Chorus) X2
(Bridge)
With your touch I cannot fall
With your touch I cannot fall
With your touch I cannot fall
With your touch I cannot fall
A call of love
We cannot fall
(Chorus)
(Outro) X2
With your touch I cannot fall
With your touch I cannot fall
With your touch I cannot fall
With your touch I cannot fall
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Um... Ya, cut the fat
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Originally posted by keshaspearsxo
Um... Ya, cut the fat
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Get off your high horse, it's a fun pop song 
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Originally posted by KeshasFansRose
Get off your high horse, it's a fun pop song |
Fun pop songs can also have good lyrics
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Originally posted by keshaspearsxo
Fun pop songs can also have good lyrics
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Oh please get over yourself already There's nothing deep about what you do
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ok here are my 2 albums and track lists. My two albums have evolved over about four years now, and I'm constantly changing them and removing tracks and adding new ones to achieve two perfect records. Here is the albums as they currently stand:
SHOW YOUR METAL ALBUM BY MXTTHEW
This is the main album I work on, so it has my fourteen favourite songs.
1. SULPHUR
2. I'LL CRY IN YOUR MOUTH
3. TIERNAN
4. EVERYTHING HURTS IN THE AUTUMN
5. IF I DREAM A PICTURE OF YOU ON AND ON
6. BITTER AFTER DARK
7. PIPING FOR THE BLOOD TO DANCE TO
8. CHRISTIAN GIRLS LIKE ME
9. OVER
10. THIS ROOM'S RACISM AND ANYTHING SACRED
11. NO ONE WILL LAUGH
12. ALL LOVE WITH HYPOTHERMIA ENCLOSED
13. WE KILL FOR FUN
14. PRAY 4 ME
"Sulphur", "Over" and "Bitter After Dark" are my favourites right now.
THE UNEXPECTANCY OF THE DEATH OF CARMEN SCARLETT
This is my older songs, really. 2013-era Matthew
1. MOSCOW
2. I HAVEN'T LIVED WHITE
3. LA LUNA
4. THE FALL
5. READY FOR YOUR LOVE
6. LUNATIQUE
7. LET OUR VIOLENCE END
8. HIDE AND SIKH
9. COMMUNION
10. THE BLATHWAYT ARMS
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Originally posted by keshaspearsxo
Stan Matt!
I love how yours are so personal, authenticity is something that's important for me, and they're also quite relatable which I always feel mine really aren't in a way. A lot of the time I write about scenarios that don't exist, as a way to write about an emotion. That's why I called my first album Enigma, because only three songs actually dealt with reality (the last three). I was always writing about this enigma that did not exist. That year I was out of school and a little isolated and lonely so it probably stemmed from that. I would say Enigma as an album is about a lack of reality, focusing on dreams and emotion (and vulnerability as such). With the second album, Filter, I started that when I moved away and began university, so that in itself was a huge juxtaposition to my life before. On that, I write more about reality and the things I dealt with, particularly crushes but also some other growing up stuff. I called it Filter because, even here when I write about more real situations and whatnot, they still keep that dreamlike, distant feel because my writing is a little poetic and enigmatic (though I also try to branch into less, and at some times more, poetic areas on it), as if it's looking at my life through a filter.
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Well I don't really try that hard to make my songs personal or relatable, I guess I just write about what's going on in my life. Sometimes my more metaphoric songs are even more personal, like Acid Reign and Savior. I think I try to disguise my feelings behind metaphors sometimes so I don't feel like I'm showing everything, but then it makes the meaning even cooler. And sometimes I write songs about how I want to feel. For example, my new song After Hours is a love song I wrote after my most recent breakup about how I wanted my next relationship to be and how I wanted to fall in love again, and as I'm starting to date this new guy I'm finding everything about the song describes how I'm feeling which is really cool. I guess I do have a pretty interesting life though. I've fallen in love multiple times, had some struggles, and have been through a lot that has shaped who I am and who I don't want to be, so that's made writing personal songs really easy.
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Originally posted by keshaspearsxo
Fun pop songs can also have good lyrics
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Originally posted by KeshasFansRose
Oh please get over yourself already There's nothing deep about what you do |
save it for 9xPH!
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Originally posted by KeshasFansRose
Oh please get over yourself already There's nothing deep about what you do |
If you're going to post your song, you're gonna get feedback. And if it's bad, well **** it's bad. And probably nobody will tell you, but I will, because I couldn't care less. Girl that song is bad. If you don't wanna hear it, don't share your lyrics. The whole point of posting a song is obviously to get feedback. And, well, you got it! My advice to you is the same exact thing you say in this post. Get over yourself already and take some advice. There is nothing deep about what you do. Good luck with that.
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Originally posted by BILLIONAIRE✘BOY
Its like cinematic pop/dream pop/Sadcore-ish with urban influences
(its a mess I know ) |
That's sort of how I'd describe my music,
except it doesn't have that much urban influences and it's a little more synth pop-y.
I was working on a project for a couple of months,
but things got ****ed up, so now I'm starting all over 
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Originally posted by keshaspearsxo
If you're going to post your song, you're gonna get feedback. And if it's bad, well **** it's bad. And probably nobody will tell you, but I will, because I couldn't care less. Girl that song is bad. If you don't wanna hear it, don't share your lyrics. The whole point of posting a song is obviously to get feedback. And, well, you got it! My advice to you is the same exact thing you say in this post. Get over yourself already and take some advice. There is nothing deep about what you do. Good luck with that.
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No, everyone always gives fair and helpful feedback to everyone but once again the rude and obnoxious Pears is here. It all makes sense now
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