People actually fully talked me out of it - there was so much going on at the time and we had so many songs to figure out what to do with. I actually don't know how to explain it. Corby: Yeah, I think it was more I was just trying to catch up with where I was lyrically. It's hard to remember because it was a long time ago. If you believe it or not, I don't know, but people's lives can be changed by it. The early offerings from the album due out March 11 present him in previously unexplored areas. Matt Corby is a raspy-voiced Australian singer and songwriter with several charting, award-winning original songs.
There are so many racial issues and class issues and the world's just fucked. I'll write an upbeat song! I think that's where most people are: It's hard to know if what you do is actually working for anyone else or not. Maybe in the pop world it's completely cheap and nasty and it doesn't do anyone any good. Me and one of my really good mates fell out, and it was because of something really stupid I did. Corby: It was actually a song that I wrote with Mocky — a Canadian. I've been trying to learn how to play all these instruments to a degree and get my point across, but it's good because the demo is instantly there as well as the core of the song.
Recording is only just a moment in time. I would work on shit forever. Pretty big with the lyrics, I know. Corby: I don't have much to do with even my Facebook. Keep me going through this mess in a weird way.
Maybe it's because I'm quite defiant, but I think that's how you should be as an artist. But if that's the idea, we're here to get better at being alive so that's what we should try to achieve. Laura Antonelli Songfacts : What process yields the best outcome for you when you're writing a song? The new stuff is slightly more in-depth. Corby: Yeah, that's the whole idea! Man, it's so hard to explain because it's such a weird relationship that you have with a bunch of people that might not even care that much. I don't know if it matters in a lot of ways because you can take what you want from it.
It's not up to you after you've stopped working on it. Corby: Musically, that song came out quick. You know what I mean? That's where it came from. We play it a lot slower now and it feels way better. I've done that a few times. Songfacts: And not force you to do it.
Sometimes the people that don't are in high-up places and vice versa. After I got that, all the parts came in fast. No one is going to save you. But for some reason, I was just freaked out about going outside. Lyrically raw and endearingly honest, his songs take the listener through an introspective and heartfelt journey. It's just whatever you feel that day, that's what you'll play.
I'm not saying that I really like this new one. I've always taken it with a grain of salt. We're on a good level with each other. But the people that I've worked with have actually been pretty good and understanding. What prompted that song to pour out of you so quickly? I'm really struggling to explain myself. They sign you based on what you do, so without any of their input, they were already interested. That was a bad thing to do.
If a record label will sign you in order for you to be moulded into something that can make more money for them, then you should get out of there if you're that artist. It was meant to be this sizzle-y little thing that had heaps of groove but was understated. Just because they might give you a bit of money every now and then doesn't mean that they have the right to change what you do. You can be the one that wrote and played it but to someone else, it's the song that they love, which is a weird connection that people have with it. The third is your intellectual and then beyond that is your balance. I don't know why I like it so much.
You can be in community and making the right decisions, which I guess is doing well, but this life frequency goes up and down all the time. We get excited and then the song just becomes this whole other animal. I had maybe just one other person in the room at the helm at a desk figuring out and pulling sounds with all these instruments. I think it's how a lot of people see things. Still only in his early 20s, Matt Corby's. Pre-order the album and find out more about Matt Corby by visiting.
I realized that I didn't want that to be the representation of anything out in the world, because music has power. . You can write a song about a girl or you can write a song about walking down the shops, and it's fine. They're not really trying to fuck you over. I'll try to find something that's reminiscent of a song with an interesting progression, which normally can take me anywhere between five minutes and two days.