It’s Tuesday. If you sometimes beat yourself up about how you handled a past relationship (any kind of relationship, not just romantic), welcome to human life. You’ll be doing that until you die.
#Nightcall by @Kavinsky teaches us that the verses of a song can be identical (essentially copied and pasted) and people won’t notice as long as they’re spaced far enough apart and the song is catchy enough. It took about 10 or so streams of “Nightcall” before I realized that the verses are identical. This idea of having identical verses (with maybe a tiny bit of variation) would be utilized for “Your Bed” and some songs on GoBoy 4, 6 and 7, the most recent being “Punching Bag (Song 119).”
Another popular song that everyone has heard that utilizes this structuring idea is “I Hate Everything About You” by @threedaysgraceofficial.
For “Your Bed,” the goal was to have a melodic hook playing during every section of the song. In my mind, a “melodic hook” is a simple melody that loops multiple times in a row. You can skip to any random moment in the song, and a melodic hook will be playing. This writing style would be attempted with every song on GoBoy 4 and 5.
All in all, “Your Bed” is a simple song that will often be overlooked, but it influenced GoBoy’s writing style more than most GoBoy songs.
Throughout GoBoy 3 and 4, a lesson was relearned after a seven-year hiatus: listeners can sense any hesitancy in your voice. Confidence is important in a recording booth. This rediscovery would lead me to experiment with drinking while recording GoBoy 6. What results would liquid courage bring? Just an experiment (excerpt from post 50).
The production quality in this song is kinda meh. My vocals do not have enough strength. I should have belted out the vocals, similar to the singing style of GoBoy 6 and 7 (excerpt from post 50).
In April, 2021, almost all of GoBoy 3, 4 and 5‘s songs were restructured to be under 3 minutes (preferably under 2m 30s), including this song. In an attempt to increase replay value in this streaming era, most of GoBoy’s songs are now purposely around 2m 20s (excerpts from post 38).
A bass boost was added to songs 37-99 in Nov, 2021, while I was stuck at home with covid. As a result, this song feels more powerful. The bass boost isn’t a simple plugin nonchalantly added to each song. It’s a process that took about 3.5 hours per song, or one whole month to complete all songs. Admittedly, I pushed the bass boost a little too far for some of them. The bass in some songs sounds like a freaking earthquake (unnecessarily pronounced low frequencies 20 - 50 Hz). Might dial that back someday. The bass boost was also applied to every song on GoBoy 6 and beyond (excerpt from post 37).
