Lil' Guy March
By jegasus on May 4, 2024 9:37 pm
Hi there! Looking for some weird music stuff? Well, you've come to the right place!
I first started tinkering with this idea a couple of weeks ago when Hank Green put out a video about how Five Guys is manipulating its consumers. There's a moment in the video, specifically at 3m12s, where Hank says "I'm just a little guy and I would like a little burger for my little guy mouth. And I'm gonna go out to my little car, and when I get in it, instead of going like 'VROOM VROOM' it goes 'WOWOLOLOWOWOLOLO'".
It just struck me as ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS, and I knew I wanted to make a song out of it. This, however, isn't my first rodeo since I've already written a song using a funny-sounding quote from Hank in the past.
Anyways, I sampled the audio clip into my M8 and started experimenting with it, trying to find some musically interesting corners and ended up focusing mostly on the "I'm just a little guy" part of it.
I don't know why, but the way I sequence my drums often ends up sounding like a marching band. In this case, given the sonic characteristics of the rest of the song, it feels like a weirdly sad march through the rain, moving forwards stopping for nothing, just forever at the same constant and slow pace.
I'm super happy with where this landed even though it's tremendously simple and can feel a teeny bit repetitive. I'm particularly happy about the pad-sounding synth that comes in half way through the song.
Also, thank you so very much for the sweet and kind comments on my previous submission. I'm happy to report that this week has indeed been less of a pain! The work stressors were still there, but for some reason, it felt less draining. So win!!! Hahahahaha...
Catch y'all on the flip side!!!
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