K. Jhooti, D. Carter, J-Remy, Bobbybass, Jared Cotter, & J Perkins

F. S. Merriwether

I spent a long time working on this one. I started recording it, and couldn’t quite get the tempo right, then spent a while trying to get comfortable using Reaper, as my usual recording software is now well over ten years old and not entirely functional. I couldn’t quite get my mind around Reaper, so I gave up and went back to Saw Plus. Once I got back into my comfort zone, the song came together pretty quickly. I started out with the banjo, then added a fairly percussive guitar track and some uke. Usual instrumentation followed, but then, once I got to the drums, I happened to play some drums while I had a mic on going through some goofy amp modeling. I thought it sounded pretty awesome, by which I mean it sounded like a crummy drum machine. So, even though it sounds like this song uses a drum machine, it’s actual drums. The trickiest part was definitely the vocal recording, though less so due to my usual dislike of my vocals and more due to the fact that I crammed in way too many words per line, so it’s not really physically possible to sing this song straight through without the aid of some studio trickery.

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Wow. I don’t think I really realized that really goofy Euro-disco was a viable pop genre in this country now. I mean, I guess that’s sort of the lesson I’ve learned over the past few songs (Lady Antebellum aside). Anyway, I like my song. It’s catchy, even though it’s yet another I-IV-V banjo-driven song. Plus, I kind of feel like I did a pretty decent job accidentally replicating the Lil’ Wayne verse. Minus the AutoTune, of course.