Member Since: 7/12/2009
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I am ****ing done.
'Judas'
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"The song is about honouring your darkness in order to bring yourself into the light. I have been haunted by my past for a very long time, and actually, that's a recurring theme on the album. It has a lot to do with, I think, identity, and being able to be proud and say I was born this way. But I was haunted by being able to go back to New York, being able to go back to my past, being able to understand why I made certain decisions, that instead of regretting them, I chose to embrace and understand why I made those choices. What the song Judas is about, is, you have to look into what's haunting you, and you need to learn to forgive yourself in order to move on"
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'Edge Of Glory'
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"A lot of times in my songwriting process, I will begin at the piano. One of the songs on the album, that is truly one of my favourites, is called the Edge Of Glory. It's kind of a sad story. My Grandpa died about 5 months ago. Me and my Dad were going to say goodbye to him at the hospice and I got out a big thing of Agavero Tequila. My Dad sat next to me at the piano and we just started doing shots back and fourth. I wrote the Edge Of Glory on the piano and my Dad and I cried. The song is about your last moment on earth, the moment of truth, the Edge Of Glory is that moment right before you leave the earth. So that song can be played on the piano, but it's actually set to this giant, huge, techno rock Springsteen-esque dance beat. I actually had Clarence Clemons from the E Street Band come in and play saxophone on it. It's ****ing beautiful. And I do that with a lot of my songs, but it's funny, so interesting to hear your perspective on it because that is really what I wanted to do with this album. I really wanted to show my ability as a songwriter, so a lot of the songs are like that. There's really not one song that can't be played at the piano acoustically. It's all about the songwriting, it's all about my abilities as a writer, from a melodic perspectice, and I co-produced every song on the album, so sonically, it just smells like me. So what I guess I'm trying to say is, in my opinion, all good music can be played at a piano and still sound like a hit."
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he was the one that said Judas was going to go no.1
Better than Bad Romance? 
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