Jepsen explained that she had "never written a song that way before so I'd definitely say it was new," adding that "there was something really exciting about being on the phone and singing ideas to each other and then calling each other back and re-writing lyrics in your BlackBerry and iPhone and seeing it all being exchanged".
He piles up his words with great skill; no matter how slowly they're sung, the ideas in a Merritt song have momentum, and the cumulative self-portrait that he presents, in his dry singing style — he has a lovely conversational bass voice — is of a queer boy perpetually in search of love, a kind of daffy and sardonic Noël Coward, whose lyrics radiate smarty-pants sophistication.
He piles up his words with great skill; no matter how slowly they're sung, the ideas in a Merritt song have momentum, and the cumulative self-portrait that he presents, in his dry singing style he has a lovely conversational bass voice is of a queer boy perpetually in search of love, a kind of daffy and sardonic Noël Coward, whose lyrics radiate smarty-pants sophistication.
I played Manthe some of the music I was working on for the film and she started singing different ideas.
Seaman described writing with Minogue: "[She] would write the lyrics down and as a natural singer, would sing her ideas of how it might go melodically".
Pulling the microphone from its stand, Apple held her torso tight with one arm as if she'd been shot, singing of ideas that "percolate the mind, trickle down the spine, swarm the belly, swelling to a blaze".
"What's the highest and lowest note you can sing?" (No idea).
You could be asleep or you could be on the freeway, I've had every experience where I'll sing an idea into my phone or call my house and leave it on my answering machine or pretty much anything.
"The singing fish idea was just silly enough for us to take a chance on some unexpected creative, and it ended up getting some real traction with consumers," he said.
One of Welch's former teachers said Welch didn't "sing notes; she sang feelings and ideas".
Even back then, she didn't sing notes; she sang feelings and ideas".
