I often have messed up dreams. And sometimes, those dreams contain dreams and ideas that wake me up. But, unlike Vanessa Carlton, my ideas don’t turn into great works of arts like a beautiful single.
In an interview with AfterEllen.com, Nessa describes the process she went through, in writing the melody and lyrics for her current single, “Carousel”.
Yeah. I have these dream songs and they’re wonderful dreams, but then you wake up and they’re crap songs — they’re not great. Or I forget them because they’re just snippets of your subconscious, I guess. I don’t know. But this one, I just woke up with that singing line in my head [hums melody] and I love that. So I went out, at 3:30 in the morning, and played it on the piano and put it on my Garage Band and then went back to bed. But I couldn’t go back to sleep so I just lay there and the lyrics kind of slid in and I wrote it just with my thumbs on my Blackberry, in the dark. And the next morning I woke up and I forgot that the whole thing went down. I just thought the whole thing was a dream. Then I went and checked my iTunes and I played it the little demo I made and it had really happened. And it was a really kind of lovely.
You can not like Vanessa Carlton’s music, but if you’re not impressed by how she created this song, then I think you need to reevaluate your music IQ.
Read the full interview to learn more about the process Nessa went through in freeing herself from labels and creating Rabbits On The Run, as well as her thoughts on coming out as bisexual last year.
