Giorgio Tuinfort, Aliaune Thiam, David Guetta, Jean-Claude Sindres

F. S. Merriwether

So, usually when I write a song, I’ll do a quick and dirty recording that’s just vocals and either guitar or banjo, just so I can remember how the song goes (in addition to the tablature I write up for myself). Usually, the actual version differs greatly from the rough version, but this time, I really liked the super-mellow guitar and vocals I had for the rough track. Heck, I even liked all the mic hiss. I considered dousing it with synth strings and harpsichords and such (I even messed around with trying to play the French horn I have lying around), but, in the end, I just decided to stick with my original rough recording. I added a uke to make the guitar sound a little fuller, and I tossed in a single harmony track on the chorus. A super simple bass part and organ backup on the chorus and lead-in, and I think it’s done.

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You know, when I first played the song to my wife, we both had a good laugh about the “without being disrespectful” line that leads into “Damn, girl, you’re a sexy chick,” and I commented that, if nothing else, at least it wasn’t “you’re a sexy bitch,” but I have since learned that’s exactly what the line is, in the non-radio friendly version. My version’s pretty minimal, but I’m kind of fond of it. It’s kind of nice to record a song without layering on a dozen extraneous track. Although maybe it could have used more Godzilla noises….