ONCE MORE, WITH FEELING

This was the first song I wrote with the app, as a surprise song that my husband would discover in our shared Apple Music account.

I wanted to write a love song to my husband, but I thought it would be funnier to put my jokey spin on it. We’ve been playing the “I love you MORE” game (that many couples are familiar with) for 20 years now, sometimes taking it to great over-the-top lengths. So what better than a “diss track” for how much my love is stronger than his? (I’m still expecting a “retaliation track” from him at some point, where he says HIS love is actually stronger. As if!!).

The original version of this song was fantastic, but the ending was too “light” for me. I wanted more intense shouting at the end.

“YOU. WILL. NEVER. KNOW! (The loooooove)”

I fell off a cliff and broke my back when I was 19 years old.

While most would see this as a tragic event, I have always seen it as something that radically changed my life for the better. Had this never happened, I would probably still be living in L.A. (a city I hate) and probably working at a Starbucks (not that there’s anything wrong with that, but I’m happy I’ve been able to work in two of my dream industries).

Basically, this event really opened my eyes, radically changed my outlook, and made me want to change everything about my life.

The original is great, but I think this folk cover really turns this song into something super special and personal.

As someone who’s had crutches for over three decades, I wanted to address that in a song somehow. The “Crutch Boy” in the song isn’t supposed to be ME, per se, but I still relate to him.

He’s overly optimistic, and just wants to “keep on dancing,” despite how the world might treat him…

The original had a very ’80s vibe, and this remix still captures that. But I wanted to make it even more intense and a little bit more modern — adding industrial and even funk vibes.

I’ve written a bunch of songs about my husband and I together, but I wanted to write a song solely about him.

He’s been a photographer, journalist and documentarian, specializing in visual storytelling. But he’s also known as an oral storyteller as well.

He just really loves to tell stories in any way possible, so this is a little story about him. His enthusiasm is infectious, and you can’t help but get swept up in it… 🥰

I would love to have this folk cover version played live some day!

I’m allergic to alcohol, and I’ve never done drugs. So of course, growing up and going to parties, other people insisted that it was absolutely impossible that I could have any fun. After all, how could I possibly enjoy myself if I wasn’t completely drunk, stoned out of my mind, or barely making any sense at all???

So yeah… I’ve had a lot of “parties of one” in my lifetime….

I really wanted to make this a song that could be played at actual parties, and so a “dancier” mix was needed. I experimented a lot more with this one…

I wrote this after a 2-month span where I just wasn’t feeling well and was feeling kind of down about it. One day, when I finally felt slightly better, the lyrics to this song came into my head.

It’s been a mantra all of my life, when things aren’t going well. I think to myself “well… is today at least better than yesterday?” Maybe it isn’t by much, but… at least it’s something…

This song absolutely deserved a more stripped-down version. So this folk cover really makes this song shine in a way that it was always meant to.

This song is my anthem to “Bears”.

I really wanted this to end up being played at Bear events, but the original just wasn’t “dancey” enough.

So here’s the club mix version. Play it away, DJs!

Any time my husband and I are out somewhere, or watching something on TV, and we see something cute or stupid or silly — we immediately shout “YOU!”

As a romantic and funny/silly song, I thought a folk cover version was just perfect.