#coffee and toothpaste

[rusalka-studio]

mixing coffee and toothpaste what a disgrace what a sour taste

mixing coffee and toothpaste it’s a dark place, I can’t face being stuck with you

a beautiful song written and sung by @libbylumos

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[libbylumos]

I know most of you on here don’t follow me for my music but I figured I’d drop this off anyway! 

Two years ago I wrote this song called Coffee and Toothpaste. I was certain that it didn’t fit my music style at all because it was so upbeat and happy sounding. But the lyrics are quite dark and bitter, which is actually a very me thing. 

Anyway, a month after I wrote it, my friend Dodie and I sat down and recorded a cover of it for her second channel. It meant a good load of people came over to my channel, a lot of them are friends of mine today. I’m honestly so grateful, it meant a lot to me that she found the song good enough that she wanted to share it. 

So finally, two years on, I’ve recorded a full produced version of the song and my friend Zannah made a killer music video for it. I’m so hyped you have NO IDEA. 

[libbytidley]

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For this week’s brief for solowriting, we were told to completely rework a song. I picked my song ‘Coffee and Toothpaste’ because the original is very cheerful and upbeat but with an underlying bitterness and I thought it would be interesting to try and bring out to bitterness and the anger that are suppressed in the lyrics.   

One of the things I really wanted to experiment with here was the change of melody in the verses. In the original, the melody changes slightly in the last half of the second verse which is something I don’t actually tend to do regularly but has been recommended for me to look into. I figured working on a variation of a melody change for a song where I’d already figured out that section would be a nice step forward to doing it with other, new songs. 

Personally, I really like this version for very different reasons to the original but I still love the original too. It was actually suggested to me that I completely change the lyrics for this version of the song so it’s a completely stand alone track but I feel like having two versions of the same song would be interesting as the new melody and chord sequence give the song a completely different meaning.

[ninjanessie]

I'm tired of waiting for the storm to hit.