Dancing with the Stars

November 14th, 2010

Last month, a friend asked me to make a song for an indie video game he was devel­op­ing (yet to be released – I’ll let you know!). For a while now, I’ve wanted to try some­thing like this… so it was great to finally get the kick in the ass to do it. The require­ment was to have some­thing instru­men­tal that was eas­ily loop-able, but that might be able to be cut up a bit to add a lit­tle vari­ety. He also wanted some­thing that wasn’t typ­i­cal for that type of game. Because I have a ten­dency to throw as much pos­si­ble into a song these days, I also wanted to make it an exper­i­ment in sim­plic­ity. After I was done, I had this lyric float­ing around in my brain that seemed to fit the energy of the song, so I played around with the phras­ing a bit came up with a few small verses, and “Danc­ing with the Stars” was born.

Why the name? Another exper­i­ment. Appar­ently that’s what a lot of peo­ple are search­ing for online these days (I’m as sad about this as you are), and it’s a song about celebrity, so here you have it. If my lame attempt at SEO suc­ceeded and you’re a sorely dis­ap­pointed Danc­ing with the Stars fan, you should leave me an angry com­ment or two, and if they’re funny enough, I might even put them up.

You can check out the song at the top of the music sec­tion.