Hi Dan !
Hope you’re doing well.
I wanted to ask, how was the songwriting process for bad idea right/obsessed on Olivia’s latest record? What did you start with? did you guys write it just the two of you or with a band? x
Hey!
Both of those songs started off different from each other. For “Bad Idea, Right?”, I had that main guitar riff kicking around for a bit and I played it for Olivia and she really liked it. She told me soon afterwards that she had a song title in mind… Seeing You Tonight… It’s a Bad Idea right… and soon we put the guitar riff and the lyric together and started to write a song around it!
For Obsessed, she came in one day and said she had that song title and concept in mind. As soon as she told me the concept, a melody came into my head and we workshopped it together to make it fit… after we did that, we went into my studio and figured out the key of the song and the chords!
But as far as it goes with the band, I usually make a music demo myself in the studio. Once we have all the parts written and Olivia and I are both happy with the direction, that’s when I call in a band to re-play some of the parts to make it feel more organic and loose.
Dan