"Olivia"
"This one is very near and dear to my heart. Harry, John [Ryan, co-writer] and I were in Westlake and trying to write one thing and came out with this. I don't know how it came out. We couldn't write anything for a couple days, and we couldn't focus. We were trying to write things, and they were bad. Then we would just laugh and order food and hang out. Then all of a sudden, at the very end of the day when Harry was going to leave, he was sort of saying the chorus phrase, so we just sat there and wrote it really quick. It came out really, really quick. That one was so fun because it has a full orchestra we recorded at Abbey Road: four trumpets, four trombones, three french horns, flute, clarinet, harp. That was an incredibly adult, musically indulgent song that we all had a lot of fun making. It makes me so happy. But 'Olivia' was Harry's genius."

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Listening to the song, then the podcast and then reading this synopsis from a co-writer of the song, my take away of the Beatle influence in the writing was incidental at best and certainly not forethought. There was enough 'style' in the demo that steered the producers to copy Beatle techniques. So this ends up being more of how the song was produced rather than how it was written.

A recent instance occurred with one of my songs to demonstrate my point. I produced my latest post with BIAB with the key, tempo and chord progression just as I wrote the song on guitar. I chose BIAB style as close to the arrangement in my head as I could find. I auditioned it for my wife and she was politely underwhelmed. We discussed it and she noted it was another bland version of similar songs I'd written in the past. She suggested I find a way to make it more current and updated. We are both carolina beach music fans so I searched YouTube for a similarly structured two verse song. I found one, a solid #1 from last year and restructured my song with a BIAB style and instrumentation based on that structure. My orchestration ballad was transformed into an up tempo carolina beach music tune that is getting a nice reception from listeners. I think that's a similar story to "Olivia"

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