“well baby i surrender, to the strawberry ice cream, never ever end of all this love, well i didn’t mean to do it, BUT THERE’S NO ESCAPING YOUR LOVE…” ~ Counting Crows – Accidentally in Love

Love.

It is such a big thing to hear someone say those classic three words you hear all the time in romantic films: “I love you.” You dream of someone special to you in your life to say those magic words to you.

There are different categories for love in songwriting: being in love, being in love with someone who doesn’t know you exist, falling out of love or heartache and moving on.

I will have to divide it up into a few posts so I don’t go on too much about one and not the others.

This post is going to be about being in love with someone.

It is one of the most amazing feelings in the world to be in love. To feel wanted by someone who loves you just  as much as you love them. For me personally, when I feel good about something I write a song about it so I can get some of my feelings expressed.

One of my favourite songs about being in love has to be Katy Perry – Teenage Dream.

“i don’t wanna be afraid, i wanna wake up feeling beautiful today, and know that i’m ok, COS EVERYONE’S PERFECT IN UNUSUAL WAYS, you see i just wanna believe in me…” ~ Demi Lovato – Believe In Me

I think another inspiration post is needed. Not done one of these in a while.

Now if you know me, you will know straight away who this singer is as she is someone who I look up to and get inspired by so much.

I have mentioned her briefly before in a previous post about emotion.

She has one of the most under-rated and incredible voices in the industry today and she is only just about to turn 20.

Inspiration #4 is none other than the amazing singer/songwriter and musician Demi Lovato.

“shot me out of the sky, YOU’RE MY KRYPTONITE, you keep making me weak, yeah frozen and can’t breathe.” ~ One Direction – One Thing

It is that time of the week again.  Yes it is song of the week.

Now this band are guilty pleasure of mine. Rising from their fame from the reality TV show, The X Factor, and have now become the biggest boyband in the world despite them only being formed at the judges’ houses.

Only coming third in the competition, it’s a surprise to see how far they have come from their beginnings as schoolboys wanting to pursue a career as a solo artist.

This week’s song of the week is: One Direction – One Thing.

“it’s just EMOTION taking me over, caught up in sorrow, lost in a song.” ~ Destiny’s Child – Emotion

In my last post, I wrote about how some songwriters will get inspiration to write songs from retrieving emotions from their past. Delving into past experiences for some is a very challenging and upsetting experience for writers and sometimes even for the artist who picks the song for their album.

Such simple words put together can make you realise that something in your life isn’t right; make you see that you can relate to a song’s message or that someone you know is going through similar issues. Or maybe even a different perspective of something.

Demi Lovato started looking at song ideas for her third album, Unbroken, in 2010 and heard the song, Skyscraper, which is written by Toby Gad, Lindy Robbins and Kerli Koiv. The song was originally inspired by a picture of an apocalypse, where our world was in ruins, except for a single skyscraper.