One of the things I worked on with this album was focusing on the lyrics and the melody more so than everything else. A lot of my songs have started with the music and the texture, and then the lyrics and melodies are all framed inside of that. I wanted to do the opposite with this one and have melodies that could stand on their own without the instrumentation. I wanted it to sound just as natural if you were walking in the woods, whistling them as they do with accompaniment. A lot of these songs started with melodies that I would hum into my phone while I was walking somewhere. “Dancing in the Club” and “All Fucked Up” were both written that way.
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Nate Amos
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b. 1991
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Musician Nate Amos (Water From Your Eyes, My Idea, This Is Lorelei) discusses the importance of humor in songwriting, writing melodies that are catchy enough to whistle on their own, and finding focus through writing every day.
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