Tag: pop

‘Dinner In March:’ #Pop #Rock #Ballad #Lyrics Inspired By Anna Marie Tendler’s Art


I feel so bad for Ms. Tendler. Because of what happened between me and the late Annie Shapiro in Seoul, I can, in my mind and heart, kind of square the circle of what is going on between she and her ex-husband and his new baby mama. I can see in my mind, in three dimensions what’s going on in this tragedy. Anyway, I’m very inspired by her devastating photography and, hence, here are some lyrics. I don’t know anything about music. From my point of view, this is just a quick hit of creativity that elevates my serotonin. I would also like to note that Prince is an amazing lyricists. I used Nothing Compares 2 U as a guide as to how to write these lyrics and it was TOUGH!

Dinner In March
lyrics by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Please give credit if you produce or perform

hang my head in shame
wondering if I’m being way too lame
dinner is set
time marches on like a drumb
it’s just me now I’m afraid
for this
dinner in march

I eat my dinner alone now
at any time of day
I can start it at noon
and zoom right through
or day drink myself into
a state of disgrace

while the wine flows I whine
to myself about what could have been
was I good enough (for you)
was I too good (for you)
how could I have changed it all
for the better, for the better

(bridge)
april will come
you’ll be by my side
or not
I’m going to have to let it slide
while I eat my dinner in march alone

dinner in march
dinner in march
dinner in march
dinner in march
dinner in march

A Holistic, Casual Review Of Kacey Musgraves’ ‘Star-Crossed’


by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I just checked Anthony Fantano’s review of Kacey Musgraves’ latest album and my jaw dropped at how much he hated it. I mean, HE REALLY HATED IT. Nothing he said about why he hated it did not make sense or wasn’t based in some sort of logic.

While Fantano is the “hardest working Internet music nerd,” I’m just a dude who likes good music. I’m impressed with Fantano’s reviews. My only quibble being he sometimes gets into the weeds of the music to the point that he misses the overall picture.

But, honestly, that’s kind of his thing — to obsess over the details of music.

With that in mind, this is my other-end-of-the-spectrum review of Kacey Musgraves’ new album “star-crossed.” I’m putting little — if any — thought into this. Just giving you my gut reaction to the album overall.

I found the album rather enjoyable, even heart wrenching. I say this because to me, it’s not how much autotune was used, or this or that production technique was used, or even if a line or two of the lyrics might be flat.

It’s about the emotion the music evokes from you.

And, it seems to me Fantano was so obsessed with his metrics that he missed some pretty important aspects to the album — how much it was obviously a confessional. The lyrics tells maybe not THE truth of her divorce by A truth about what happened.

To me that’s what makes great pop music — does it tell a truth?

Some of his criticisms are just weird. The song “there is a light” is a bop in the context of being something that might keep people dancing if they already were. If people are dancing, they don’t care how production value, or how stupid some of the lyrics are, they just need a nice beat. And I could definitely see a few even more dancable remixes being spun off the track.

Anyway, I’m not going through the whole track list. I’m just giving you a general sense of what I though of the album. The album’s not perfect, but it’s quality entertainment and it definitely tells A Truth.

‘All Crushed Out:’ #Pop #Rock #Ballad #Lyrics


Jesus Christ no one cares about me at the moment. But this is a pleasant way to relax this evening — trying to convey what the pictures of Anna Marie Tendler make me feel in verse. No one cares. But the titles of her photos do lend themselves to be song titles.

All Crushed Out
lyrics by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Please give credit if you produce or perform

my heart still beats
but my soul is crushed out
the blood still flows
just as fast
but my heart’s just not in it
everything is smashed
everything is
all crushed out
all crushed out

crushed, crushed

don’t know what happens next
I haven’t got a guess
when you were by my side
I would let out a sigh
but now just cry, cry, cry
if you ever return what will I do
everything is smashed
everything is
all crushed out
all crushed out

(bridge)
put it all back together
I pray to heaven above
maybe if I rub a lamp
everything will return
to the way it once was
but I know that’s just crap

everything is smashed
everything is
all crushed out
all crushed out
all crushed out
all crushed out

‘A Room That Once Was:’ #lyrics to a #pop #rock #ballad


I know something about the power of grief. What I don’t know is anything about how to put words to music. I know the words part, but how to fit words to music is something I’m oblivious about. I would buy a guitar and learn, but I’ve decided that photography will be my second creative “track.” Anyway, the photos of grief that Anna Marie Tendler is producing in despair over her recent divorce is something I can related to. The late Annie Shapiro went through something of a divorce because of ROKon Magazine and it took me – gulp — a lot longer than I would like to admit for me to get over it. Anyway, the title of these lyrics comes from the photo I’ve linked to.

A Room That Once Was
lyrics by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Please give credit if you produce or perform

this is a room that was once a home
it filled our hearts with hope
we believed it was for a dream
but it was just a nightmare
it was all a lie
you looked me in the face
told me you would never leave

I believed you I did
now I’m at a loss to what happens next
I turn the light on to this room
we christened its hardwood floor
thinking we might make a baby

a room that once was a home
but is just a hole
a hole in my heart
a room that once was (a home)
a room that once was (a home)
a room that once was (a home)

(bridge)
I try to read in the room
really I do
but dread is too powerful for me to
so I don’t know what to do
maybe you can tell me
in your new enlightment
you’re going to be a father
I hear
oh dear
all I have is

a room that once was
a room that once was
a room that once was
a room that once was

‘anne boleyn:’ #Pop #Rock #Ballad #Lyrics


The pictures like the one above that Anna Marie Tendler is producing on her Instagram account are just heart wrenching. But, also, for me, at least, inspiring. I can’t sleep at the moment, so here’s another bit of would-be music inspired by one of her grief photos caused by her divorce.

anne boleyn
lyrics by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
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off with her head
they said and then she was dead
but to any woman who loves too much
and finds herself on the block
the name Anne Boleyn resonates
as the tears become a necklace

whatever you do
whatever you say
just don’t call me
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn

women know what they know
Anne Boleyn did not know her place
and she paid a heavy price
her mind was in the right place
but her man’s hands were somewhere else
other than her body late at night
someone else got that right
much to Anne Bolyen’s fright

you could say I’m the same
nothing new, is under the sun
we thought we had something forever
it was just a fever
so whatever you do
don’t call me
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn

‘Trigger Warning:’ Pop-Rock #Lyrics



I have no idea what I’m doing. But I’m the mood for the quick-hit of creativity that comes with randomly writing lyrics to songs that will never, ever be produced.

Trigger Warning
lyrics by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Please give credit if you produce or perform

when I touch your skin late at night
I can feel the heat of your skin
how you make me leer
knowing what you’re going to do
but the next morning you’re gone
leaving me thinking you should come
come with a
trigger warning
trigger warning
trigger warning
trigger warning

I’m simple
not very complex
but you make me hot
whenever we neck
but you don’t have
to call me your pet
for me to get drenched in sweat
cause you need a trigger warning

people tell me you’re a hired gun
maybe too full of yourself
you’re obviously always loaded
but I’ll drink to that
I just wish you would stay for breakfast
so I wouldn’t wake up to a cold bed
that feels as hot as muzzled just used
’cause you need a
trigger warning
trigger warning
trigger warning
trigger warning

(bridge)
you’ve unloaded your love
into my heart
capped me one two three
but I’d pull you again
without warning
if you’d just stay when I need you
in the morning

until then I’m slapping a
trigger warning
trigger warning
trigger warning
trigger warning

on you
on you
on you

‘Storm The Capitol:’ #Lyrics To A Fiona Apple-like Pop Song


I’m just screwing around with this. I’m in a writing mood. This is inspired by Fiona Apple’s “Fetch The Bolt Cutters.’ Again, as always, I have no idea what I’m going. But it’s relaxing to vent by telling a story in as few as words as possible with the idea that someone, somewhere might actually produce these lyrics. (Not that they will.)

Storm The Capitol
lyrics by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Please give credit if you produce or perform

whenever I’m in pain
and I want to be lame
I look to the city on the hill
and think
storm the capitol
storm the capitol
storm the capitol

I’m not going to say
that it’s my scene
to vi-o-len-tly stake my claim
but who am I to say
what I may do in a bad mood
I might just
storm the capitol
storm the capitol
storm the capitol

people say I’m insane
that I’m better off at a rave
but not neeed to shame me
I have a shamon to tell me
which way is north
even if it’s south
…or west.

(bridge)
I’ll rush down the steps
or maybe given a hand on my
once I’ve proven my point
that I’m an idiot
with no plan or shame
just a little too much will

but don’t you fret
I’ll be back one day to
storm the capitol
storm the capitol
storm the capitol

Ode To Anna Marie Tendler: ‘A Constant Companion’ — #Lyrics To A Breakup Song

I know absolutely nothing about music, but I can write. Or, at least, I like to think I can. So, I saw this picture of Anna Marie Tendler and was inspired to write lyrics from it. Or, at least, a poem that’s meant to be sung to music. But I only wrote this in about five minutes, so someone who actually knows what they’re doing would have to do something with it. But it’s inspired by Damien Rice’s The Blower’s Daughter. That’s the vibe I’m looking for with it.

A Constant Companion
lyrics by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Please give credit if you produce or perform

it was all an act
and that’s a fact
our love is gone
and will never come back
but for a while you were a
constant companion
constant companion
constant companion
constant companion
constant companion
constant companion

I used to adore you
now you’re gone with a roar
never to return as it is foretold
but what can I say that hasn’t been said
a thousand times in my head
you were

a constant companion
by my side
by my side
now the darkness has taken your place
I live in disgrace
with another
constant companion
constant companion
constant companion
constant companion
constant companion
constant companion

(bridge)
I’m alone with my fears
alone with my nightmares
I hold my hands late at night
thinking it’s you by my side
but my fingers I feel are my own

I can’t forget that you once were my
constant companion
constant companion
constant companion
constant companion
constant
companion
constant
companion

We Stan A Queen — We Have Got To Talk About Halsey’s Very Exposed, Very Dark Areola On The Cover Of Her New Album


by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

By Apple Music, Fair use.


I find myself becoming a Halsey fan because of what I’m hearing on her latest album. It’s not perfect — it seems all over the place thematically with the only the holding it together is Trent Reznor wants to remind us that he was in NIN. Ok, we get it Trent.

The first time I saw the album’s cover on Spotify, I did a double take — was it possible I was seeing what I was seeing? A reproduction of a very famous piece of art that involves a baby and a very exposed, very dark areola? I’m very pleased with this image because it’s interesting and it doesn’t treat us like children.

If nothing else, it will get her stans to look into some art history to find out why they’re seeing something so mildly provocative. Motherhood has only made Halsey more attractive. She’s a real babe in her more buxomly itineration.

But the album itself is really, really good. I just wish Reznor was a bit more adept in its production. The whole thing is a mess. It derivative production on individual songs occasionally takes away from how great the album is as a whole. A few of the songs are real bangers (bops?). Being new to Halsey the singer as opposed to a celebrity I barely know anything about, I continue to be taken aback by how beautiful and unique her singing voice is.

Not to sound TOO much like a dirty old man, but I continue to struggle with why someone like Dua Lipa has not “accidently on purpose” given us some T&A. She’s a real stunner and it’s weird that 30 years after Madonna ran around naked we’ve grown more puritanical. Maybe she’ll do it in the Hollywood movie she’s set to star in soon.

Trent Reznor, You Are So Derivative — Why Did You Have To Rip Off Tori Amos On Halsey’s New Album?


by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

In this instance, I don’t really anything untoward happened, but Trent Reznor was definitely thinking of straining a Tori Amos song through his NIN sensibilities.

Listen to this song by Halsey:

Then listen to this Tori Amos classic:

The only reason why this is even an issue for me for is when I hear the Halsey song, my mind finishes the song with the lyrics from Cornflake Girl and it causes some cognative dissidence.

Otherwise, lulz. I think it’s just a wink and a nod to Amos’ brillance.

But you would think that Reznor — who is no slouch himself — could be a little bit more creative.