Annotations: Full Power To The Forward Thrusters

As mentioned elsewhere, I've had a go at doing several songs for ADVERTS, where we get a vague BRIEF saying what an advert will look like AND/OR a rough video of it, with some ideas about what the song should be like.

These tend to have... well, TRENDS, where for a while they seem to want everything to sound like a specific ARTISTE. When I first started doing it EVERYONE wanted "Badly Drawn Boy", which was fine by me as, in my mind at least, that meant acoustic guitars, xylophone and the ukelele. Recently, however, this has changed a bit and it's THE KILLERS that everybody's after. This makes things a bit more difficult for me as a) I don't really have much idea what they sound like b) what idea i DO have I don't really like and c) I can't really REPLICATE it at home either.

HOWEVER, so many of these came in that I thought I might as well have a GO. One brief in particular not only wanted a song that was SIMILAR to that "Sex Is On Fire" song, they wanted it exactly the same TEMPO to fit an already made advert. They wanted it within 24 hours, so I didn't have time to have a go at it for THAT advert, so instead took a couple of weeks putting THIS together for FUN. It IS exactly the same tempo, and features MUCHO MUCHO RIFFAGE. I couldn't quite bring myself to do an American Accent so ended up TREATING my vocals to make them sound FUTURISTIC - nearly all these briefs ask for words about Going Forward and NewNess, so I did THOSE to fit too.

I feel I ought to claim it was KNOWINGLY CYNICAL but actually i had LOADS of fun doing it, especially reading Star Trek websites to get the lyrics! I don't think it sounds ANYTHING like The Killers tho!