Have you ever felt as if a certain song relates to you like it was written just for you ? I'm sure you have.
Speaking from a singer-songwriter view, which I address myself in this post. We love it when people get touched with our songs. When people come to us and say how much they loved it.
When I was 15, I wrote a song called 'Miliki Semua' . It was actually based on my friends realationship at that moment. So she inspired me. I posted it on Youtube and allowed people to download it on mediafire.com . As soon as I did that, people started approaching me and complimenting my song.
I was touched ;) Some even admitted they listened to the song over and over again. Thankyou so much !! :))) But to my surprise, I even found out that Miliki Semua had made a few people cried too. At that point, I didnt really know how to respond to that news. Cause if someone cries to a song you made by yourself, with your own words, your own melody, Your own effort.. that means you managed to reach the persons' heart. I felt like crying too, knowing I managed to achieve that at the age of 15. With just my simple knowledge of Bahasa Melayu. I touched people's heart.
It has been awhile since I wrote songs of my own. It takes time and Im running out of em. The best songs come out when I'm emotional. Not gothic emo, just emotions. Some might say, OH SHE'S GONNA BE ANOTHER TAYLOR SWIFT. Hahaha. But umm, I dont think so. You'll have to start opening your minds a little. Great songs need emotions. I dont want my songs to be like the ones which are just made up of 3 lines repeating 1000 times? Those songs aren't gonna stay long. They are meaningless. And thats why I take time to create them.
Actually, I have a very hard time composing Sad songs. I'll take months, sometimes even years to compose one song. And maybe in the end, I'm still not satisfied with it. I used to have so many ideas, so many tunes and lyrics. But now, I'm really struggling with words and tunes and inspiration and basically composing sad song. I'm losing my emotions, my feelings, my creativity. My ideas are restricted in some way. But I promise you One day, I'll come up with a song which would fill up a bucket of tears. Hehe. Just exaggerating there. okay fine okay. A song which would make you cry, AGAIN :)
Oh and I would like to thank all the people who inspired me in my songs. My Family, My friends, my fake friends, my enemies, anyone I used to love, the drama queens and the jerks.
Based on how everyone treated me, that inspired me to compose my song.
Oh ya, you might ask, Why don't you just compose happy songs? Well, happy songs are like my speciality.. I want to challenge myself. I like to. Because if you compose your own songs, there's a big chance of you having the same genre in all of your songs. Meaning, Your songs may sound similar.. so they become boring.
If you want to ask any questions or suggest a topic I should talk about, feel free to approach me:
Twitter : @eleenaharris
Just comment below :))
To listen to my own songs :
Youtube ; Itseleenaharris
http://www.youtube.com/user/ItsEleenaHarris/videos
