My recent track - “The Concert” is the Spiritual Prequel to “On Hold”. I had written this song years ago in a hotel room during a Doctor Who convention while listening to “Broken Sorrow” by Nuttin’ But Strings over and over again. I realized with ‘Dodge This” being more of a Pon-3 track, so I wanted to now focus on an Octavia specific song. I instantly imagined her life to be of a very competitive, hyper focused, but immensely talented musician. In parts of the lyrics you can see where that level of intensity and genius might lead her to loneliness and even skirting the very serious concept of suicide. I envisioned that the backing track of “Broken Sorrow” was her own performance and the verses were her thoughts that ran through her mind while she played. I never recorded the song because I was waiting for the stars to align. Maybe a producer to create their own inspired original version... maybe an artist who would draw the image of a lone Octavia sitting under a spotlight in the darkness of her own solo performance. And so it never came to be. I had no idea that years later, Yourenigma would have me write a track from the perspective of Vinyl Scratch which would ultimately lead to “On Hold”. The full picture becoming a story of two genius musicians with their own work ethic and dependence on each other. Vinyl was the hard partying, free spirit who found stability and levelheadedness in Tavi, and Octavia was the relentless perfectionist and composed counterpart who needed Vinyl’s passionate drive and friendship to continue inspiring her.
Or maybe it’s just a couple Fanon Pones who done did music gud.
~Flowny