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Thunderstorm Girl

By Cosmic Cairns on July 31, 2014 3:41 pm

I felt like doing a good old fashioned bouncy pop song this week. 

It's kind of funny because the chorus was the first part I came up with and I was initially singing Peppermint Girl, but then when it came time to write the rest of the song I kept coming up with storm imagery instead of candy imagery.  And then I realized this particular girl is a feisty unpredictable thunderstorm, not a peppermint. 

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Yeah, that's classic pop alright! Right from the strummed chord beginning through the catchy chorus. Stops perhaps too abruptly (although there are a lot of 60s songs that do that as well) :-)

Jim Wood wrote:

Yeah, that's classic pop alright! Right from the strummed chord beginning through the catchy chorus. Stops perhaps too abruptly (although there are a lot of 60s songs that do that as well) :-)

I went back and forth with myself as to whether I should repeat the chorus one more time at the end, but part of me liked the abrupt ending.  Sort of a leave 'em wanting more thing. 

On the other hand my ears do kind of crave to chorus one more time.  Oh well, I figure it's easy enough to go back in and slap another chorus on the end sometime and see if I like it better that way.

Whimsical pop delight over here! Nice flourishes with the percussion and piano/synth sprinkles and the background vox. Well done, CC!

cfurrow wrote:

Whimsical pop delight over here! Nice flourishes with the percussion and piano/synth sprinkles and the background vox. Well done, CC!

Thanks!  I think this is one of my personal favorite ones I've done all year.  But then I've always been a sucker for a good pop tune.

Definitely pop and very appropriate name I think! Good work

Well done! Very nice harmonies, too.

digging the piano and percussion in this pop diddy, nice job! smile

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