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I've decided to face my embarrassment and post this song.

This instrumental tune must have been written during a time in my life when I felt exuberantly inspired all the time, because it's probably the most cheesily emotional tune I've ever composed, from the dramatic humming to the title. Sometimes I can't really remember composing it.

That said, I've come full circle and now have decided to wholly embrace the cheesery and be happy with the song.

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posted by ORthey (10 comments total)

This is as cheesy as dairy free pizza.

I think it sounds great. Seriously, cheesy is the last word I'd use to describe this. The humming was great. What is that cello-esque sound going on in the left ear? If I remember correctly, you use GarageBand (which I use, too), so it'd be cool if you could say how you found that sound. Love the ending.
posted by Corduroy at 1:27 PM on December 28, 2008

It's gorgeous. For being inspired and exuberant, it has a surprisingly melancholy and halting quality to it. Cheesy is the last word I would think of to describe it.
posted by Astro Zombie at 1:40 PM on December 28, 2008

Interesting to hear you don't find it cheesy. I wonder why it is I see it that way... I think it's the humming that gets to me. Also, perhaps because we are using it in a trailer for this documentary I'm making and it feels very slightly manipulative, like 'hey care about the drama and passion of urban farming please because of this music.' But maybe that's what scoring is all about.

Corduroy, it is indeed a garageband instrument, I think it's one of the flute ones (pop flute?), set quite low.
posted by ORthey at 6:27 PM on December 28, 2008

Ya, I listened to this the other night and didn't hear anything cheesy at all, what the hell are you talking about?
Also, I love the humming. There's something sort of plaintive and vaguely Middle Eastern or Indian about it around 1:30.
posted by chococat at 9:20 PM on December 28, 2008

Man, I must be trippin'. Goes to show how warped our views of our own work can be!
posted by ORthey at 10:19 AM on December 29, 2008

Yeah, I agree with the rest, not cheesy, quite cool and nicely loose. There are parts (around the 1:00) where to me it sounds a bit medieval (you know, like one of those cheery songs that traveling musicians supposedly sung from town to town, spreading the news). it's quite cool, indeed.
posted by micayetoca at 2:52 PM on December 29, 2008

This is very pretty. I like it quite a bit.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 4:10 PM on December 31, 2008

This is damn good. Damn damn damn wish-I-had-thought-of-it-and-recorded-it-first good.
posted by grubi at 11:46 AM on January 8, 2009

Ouch! My childhood.

Very pretty.
posted by dagosto at 6:58 PM on January 8, 2009

"This instrumental tune must have been written during a time in my life when I felt exuberantly inspired all the time, because it's probably the most cheesily emotional tune I've ever composed..."

Interesting. Are you saying when you wrote it you were insanely happy, and that this happiness was reflected in the song? Because on my listening, I felt that it contained a kind of sadness, with a glimmer of hope.

But either way, the song is very, very nice, and not worthy of any embarrassment on your part, ORthey. You should be proud! Glad you finally came round to accepting the song, and then shared it with us.
posted by Effigy2000 at 3:54 AM on April 30, 2009