#songwriting

[joytri]

the soul that you bring to the table

[ghostfacerseffect]

Thinking about film scores & concept albums & auditory storytelling

[songwriting-and-performing]

Nick Cave on A.I.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was given an assignment to write a song in the style of Panic! At the Disco. I got them mixed up with Fall Out Boy and didn’t realize my mistake until I woke up.

[dreamings-free]

Louis about LT3

a summary UPDATED

Sep 2022 first time Louis mentions a 3rd album. Louis is quoted in Euphoria Magazine saying: “Ideally, I’d like to try and write the next record before I go on tour next year. I want to do something similar to what I’ve done this past year.” (but from what we know now it seems it didn't play out that way..)

Sep 14th 2022 Louis leaves a comment on Faith In The Future co-writer Nico Rebscher's instagram post about Out Of My System saying "Can’t wait to do more on the next album!"

Jan 2023 Louis is on holiday in Cabo, Mexico and is spotted travelling with his guitar - maybe in case inspiration strikes!?

Feb 22nd 2023 Louis is seen "a tiny village with a recording studio in it". A few days later both Louis and Matt Vines likes an instagram post by Faith In The Future co-writer David Sneddon captioned "Spent the week at @ angelicstudiouk with friends and heroes." Another FITF co-writer Theo Hutchcraft is seen in one of the photos.

May 11th 2023 Louis tweets: "Also probably shouldn’t mention this so early in the process but I’m feeling really confident creatively, just finished a week of writing and it was unbelievable. Exciting!"

May 13th 2023 When asked about the next album at the LA screening of All Of Those Voices, he answered: “I recently just started, yeah. The majority have been my own, but some of the lyrics is less direct, so it’s maybe not quite as specifically about me but,I felt really fulfilled, the last couple of writing sessions I’ve done have been really, really good.”

Nov 23rd 2023 Louis gets asked about album 3 at the Rolling Stone UK Awards and is quoted saying: “It’s funny, I wrote maybe 4 or 5 tunes in one of the breaks of the tour legs, and actually, I just wanna spend a bit of time. I’m really excited for those songs, but I don’t know when the next records gonna come and the thing about me is when I start writing, I’m just desperate to release things as soon as a possible, so I wanna take a bit of time on this record. So when that might be, who knows.” He also talks a bit about potential collaborators and mentions DMA'S.

Jan 20th 2024 Louis follows producer James Ellis Ford who has worked with Arctic Monkey, Gorillaz and many, many more.

Jan 24th 2024 When asked in a twitter Q&A if he has "a concept in mind already for the next album?" his answer was: "Started drawing the outline in my head". He also told fans asking at the meet 'n' greet in Jakarta that it would be "soon, in my context of the word" 😜

Mar 30th 2024 At the Tecate Pa'l Norte press conference he said: “At the moment, um— to be honest, I haven’t really— the question was what I listen to which is a slightly different thing but; I haven’t really given the next record real thought yet. Obviously it’s been on my mind. But in terms of conceptually, or even finding references, I’m not really at that point yet because I’ve done a lot of touring— just kind of getting that out of the way before I really start thinking about that proper.”

April 4th 2024 He told Chilean radio station Bio Bio: “I have written a couple of songs, but when I was writing them I wasn’t thinking about what they would be for a new album, they were just written to give me something to write and not put pressure on those songs. But I think I will start the work on a new album at the end of this year, maybe.” futher elaborating to Radio Disney Chile: “The good thing about this record is I’m gonna have plenty of time to experiment and with that it gives you plenty of room to just kind of find where the edges of the record live. So yeah I’m looking forward to getting into the process, but like I said I’ve been loving touring at the moment so just been kind of sticking to that.”.

He also told Paraguayan radio station HEI Now: “Of course there’ll be a new album. When? I’m not overly sure. I think I’ll probably start writing at the end of the year. I just wanna let as much life in first and then I can really start emoting and writing.”

June 2024 In the FITF tour LatAm recap video posted to Louis’ instagram 25/6 he says: “At some point I gotta think about the next record, but.. I’m a bit scared of that, truthfully right now, feel like I’ve been enjoying the success of Faith in The Future for.. quite a while. And yes, it’s been the pressure of the shows but I delivered what I think was a good record and a record that was successful. So now going into the next cycle it’s a little bit.. a little bit tentative going into it. I know that’ll change once I get off the road and really start thinking about the essence of the record and the concept of the record and stuff like that. But right now.. yeah, I’m just thinking about the festivals, I’m excited for those.” (he also talks - in past tense about playing in Mexico City and about the upcoming Away From Home Festival, so we can assume this interview was done somewhere in early June)

August 4th 2024 Responding to a fan sign at Santander Music Festival that said "How close R we to the next album 1-5?" showing three - possibly four? - fingers! meaning the album is 3/5 (or 4/5?) done!

tbc...

[dailytomlinson]

New songs registered with Louis as a composer on SACEM - 03.07

[soisaidfine]

Ethel Cain: "And so, you know, the Great Dark is not as bad as it sounds. So, on the flip side, we have the hole."

Ethel Cain: “And so, you know, the Great Dark is not as bad as it sounds. So, on the flip side, we have the hole. Jokes aside, the hole is… I love to go there. I love to go whenever I joke with my friends and say, 'Oh, Winter’s coming. I’m going to throw blankets over the windows and go into the hole.’ You know, I’m in my hole. It’s what I always describe as being in this place of darkness and kind of despair, wallowing in self-pity, misery, you know, all those fun things, which I think is fine to go into from time to time as long as you’re not staying there. Which is why I’ve written, 'One can venture into the hole but will enter a perpetual sinking if one neglects to exit in time. They will enter the maze and become stuck forever.’

When you enter the hole, you are basically entering a period and a point of darkness, overwhelming darkness, which is fine. But when you’re in it, you will enter a state of perpetual sinking where you go deeper and deeper. You can never just remain where you are… You will go deeper and deeper. Darkness is inviting, and it will continue to pull you down. So you can go, and I think that there’s a lot to be found in the hole. There’s inspiration, there are answers to maybe the dark questions of yourself. 'What are you afraid of? Why are you afraid of it?’ You know, and I think that’s important to know about yourself. I think it’s an important place to go every now and then. I don’t think that you need to invite people to your pity party if you know that you’re throwing it. If it’s a conscious decision that you make to go into a dark place, like I choose to do often because I enjoy it, and I think that dark places are comforting sometimes to be in—a nest or a cave. Well, not a cave. I’m not a fan of caves, but you know, everybody has that place that they go in their head where they love to feel like bad. Sometimes you just want to feel bad. That sounds counterproductive, but you know that life isn’t about feeling good all the time. Sometimes you want to feel bad. You need to feel bad. Grieving and depression, all those places are kind of natural things that are okay to be in.”

Hayden Anhedönia (Ethel Cain): the ring, the great dark, and proximity to god Full video on YouTube

[cynical-crypt]

reminder to writers/self

its ok to write shitty poems its ok to write shitty song lyrics its ok to write shitty stories its ok to be unoriginal its ok to reuse a line from something else you wrote its ok to reference other works its ok to be proud of shitty writing its ok to be proud of great writing its ok to be proud in general its ok to not use overcomplicated intricate wording in writing its ok to write about dumb shit its ok to write about fictional events its ok to write something awesome but have one weak line you cant really fix its ok to write something terrible but have one amazing line that doesn't fit its ok to write about emotions you don't really grasp its ok to write

[narcissistcookbook]

i'm showing my ignorance and how unconnected i am to the industry here, but i wish i understood how this works. seven writers and five producers on one song???

like that can't be right. it can't be. it has to be grift of sorts surely. or at best a case of non-writers/producers requesting to be paid in the form of writing/producer royalties rather than the less lucrative options

[notyouraryang0dd3ss]

Here is that reel I mentioned!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5_q6PGu4Vl/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

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[someoctober]

guys. guys.

MY SONG IS OFFICIALLY ON SPOTIFY

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I made a song, a really good song for a science final, but Eggman (the Piss on the Moon version, specifically) stole it somehow so I failed my final. He then put it on the Barbie movie under his name and got all the credit. >:[ The song was also my DNA?