This week I challenged myself to write a POWER BALLAD, after sitting in Rockefeller Center with a friend listening to the Body Guard soundtrack on repeat. We turned to each other and said "No one writes songs like this anymore!" So... that was the start of the challenge... meanwhile I had made plans to meet with NY songwriter, Kyle Struck to work on something for the project this week. I asked her if she'd mind writing a power ballad and she was all for it, so we met in her Hell's Kitchen apt, and threw around ideas for hours. Finally we agreed on a title, BURN THIS LOVE (down), and we started from there. If it were actually being recorded by a diva we'd slow it down a bit, raise the key, add timpani, and violins and stuff, but this is a very early demo... as you're listening try to keep in mind that we're NOT, nor have we ever claimed to be power ballad diva singers, lol. Hope you can get past that, and hear the potential of the song...
Check it out:
INSPIRATION:
We got the idea of burning love down, somewhere during our hours of throwing around ideas. It started with talking about fire and flames, and then we did an idea map, and liked the word burn. We blurted out BURN THIS LOVE DOWN, and we thought of a village or house, and the idea of burning it down and leaving no survivors. We liked the idea that when you know a love has gone wrong, you just want to burn it down and start over. The thoughts, and memories, and pains, and flames of passion, and sexual attraction are all still there, and they don't go away.... if only we could burn them down.....
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