Christmas Blue | NEW SONG | Day 81
Hello, everyone! My name is Lionder and today I have exciting news for you!
My new song is OUT!!!!!!
Yes, Yes, Yes.
I feel so grateful that it's done and now it's up on the web, available for you to listen to it and watch the video.
Let me just talk a little bit about my experience with Christmas Blue.
The whole idea
So one day I thought it would be great to release a Christmas song this year but not just another happy Christmas song to dance to and have fun. I had a very special purpose in my mind for this song. I wanted it to be about depression.
I didn't know anything about Christmas depression, I hadn't heard of it anywhere or maybe I didn't remember having heard of it in the past but when I thought to myself "Christmas Depression" it sounded right and logical. Then I started thinking about it and I concluded that it is a fact that people might feel depressed at Christmas. After that, I searched about it and I found out that it is a thing. It's a legitimate kind of depression with which people deal at Christmas.
So, I started developing this idea in my head about a Christmas song that would be about depression. There were a lot of things on my mind, many scattered thoughts that needed to be under an order.
Creative process
I started thinking of titles but none of them was good enough. The first one actually was Violet Christmas. Of course, to find a title, I was inspired by Elvis Presley's song's title "Blue Christmas". So, I wanted to find a dark kind of blue-ish color to accompany "Christmas". First up was Violet Christmas but it was not good enough. I didn't like Purple Christmas or any shade of purple or blue along with "Christmas". Then I remembered Lana Del Rey's song "Blue velvet" and I decided to name my song Velvet Christmas, thinking that velvet was a shade of purple. But guess what. I didn't know that velvet is clothing material and NOT a color. I'm sorry, I'm not a native speaker and there are a lot of things and words that I forget in English sometimes.
Anyway, I was out of inspiration. My mind was empty. I had no clue. I started losing patience as it was already November and I still had no song. I was figuring out stuff on Fl studio, making melodies and trying to get inspiration by Nicki Minaj's Moment 4 Life as that one particular song had a vibe that I really wanted my song to have too. But trying to sort of imitate that song's structure and pattern was really a huge mistake because there was no good result in the end and all I had was a bad attempt to try something unique.
Let me point out that I had already written the two rap verses of the song and all I had left to do was to find a melody for the chorus and produce the song.
I was feeling uninspired. I was feeling lost. Nothing would come up.
Until one day... as I was in the kitchen of my house, I found a title AND a freaking chorus for the song. I immediately took my phone and recorded it and I was SO SO HAPPY that day. Because I was finally ready to start figuring out the chords and overall producing the song.
What Christmas Blue really means.
Christmas Blue is a term I came up with that day and it's actually Blue (the color). So, Christmas Blue is a certain shade of blue that it's Christmassy but also very sad. Blue in English means also melancholy so it would make total sense if I told you that my song was saying "Let go of the Christmas Melancholy" but the original idea was that Christmas blue was a special melancholic shade of blue but it was melancholic in a christmassy way. I don't know if it makes sense in your mind but to my imaginative mind, it does.
So, that's how I came up with the song. I started producing it and some days or weeks later it was ready. I went to the studio and recorded it.
Music Video
When I was generating the idea of the song in my mind I was also trying to find an idea for a music video. And so I did! At first I had this idea that included 4 girls that had fought or something and now they weren't so close. But Christmas were coming and all four of them would miss each other until the day of Christmas where they would all hang out and exchange presents having fun, laughing and reuniting with each other.
But for that idea to come true, I didn't have any actors as I'm living in Athens and all the people I was comfortable with putting in my video were actually back in my hometown, Crete. There was a chaos in my mind as I was trying to find a solution or another idea for the music video. But then my brother and me decided to visit my parents in Crete once more before Christmas and so after thinking about it a little bit, I had a solution. I would film the video in Crete with my friends. There were supposed to be 4 friends in the video but one of them couldn't make it so I was left with three of them. The one was already in Athens and the other two were in Crete. And then I came up with a plot twist. It was a group of 3 girls and one of them had moved to Athens and since that happened, the other two girls didn't talk anymore for some reasons, I don't know, it's not my business :P.
And the two girls reunited at the end of the video and video chatted the other girl.
That idea was not enough though. The song was about depression and I wanted to show something more depressing. And so I thought of putting a depressing man in the video who would struggle with depression. The idea was just fine but there was just one problem. How was I supposed to connect the two stories. All I knew was that I wanted an angel to talk to the girls individually and get them to reunite. But I didn't know how to connect the two stories. I talked to a couple of people but nobody help me find a solution. Until I talked with my parents and they told me that I could make the depressing man fall asleep and somehow with a magic way portray his soul as it comes out of his body and becomes and angel and then helps the girls. After that, the angel-soul would come back to the human's body and the man would feel happy and delighted. As my parents and me were talking, we generated the idea and I loved it. I didn't know how I would make that possible on the editing of the video but I wasn't pessimistic; I knew I'd find a way.
I worked on the video for 2 days straight. The first day I edited the whole thing and saved it. The second day, I had to deal with the glitches that would show up in my video file and I had to redo some parts and change them completely to make the glitches go away. That process of me trying to avoid any possible glitches, saving my project, rendering it in a video file, watching it, spotting the errors in the result and then doing that again, lasted a whole day.
I was kind of upset but I didn't lose hope. The video was done, it was perfect and I uploaded it.
I would like to publicly say thank you to my three best friends, Eleni (Kylie), Katerina (Tessa) and Eleni (Cindy) for helping me out with the video. I wouldn't have that result without them. I'd like to say a big THANK YOU for always being by my side, willing to help me with whatever I need. Katerina and Eleni (Cindy) have both been in previous videos of mine but it was the first time that Eleni (Kylie) participated in one of my videos and I'm really happy about it. She helped me with the decoration. She actually decorated the room in which she's in in the video. I literally thought I had everything planned in my mind until I came in the room and I didn't know where to start. But then she came and turned an empty white room with a sofa into a wonderful Christmassy living room. Oh, I feel so good about that decoration. I fell in love with it. I didn't want to ruin it after the shooting was done.
That's all!
That's it, people. Thank you so much for reading this blog post. I wanted to give you an inside look of everything that happened while I was preparing this video. I hope you liked my new song. If you did, be sure to SHARE and send it to a friend who you think is struggling with depression. it might help them.
Also, like, comment and SUBSCRIBE. That would help me make my dreams come true.
Thank you so much for supporting me on my journey. You're one of a kind.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I wouldn't do it without you.
Peace, Lionder
DOWNLOAD MY SONG: https://lionder.bandcamp.com/track/christmas-blue
Facebook: http://smarturl.it/LionderFB Twitter: http://smarturl.it/LionderTwitter Blogger: http://smarturl.it/LionderBlog Blogger: http://smarturl.it/LDblogger Instagram: http://smarturl.it/ItsLionder SoundCloud: http://smarturl.it/LionderSC Google+: http://smarturl.it/LionderGoogle YouTube: http://smarturl.it/LionderYT Bandcamp: http://smarturl.it/LionderBC
My new song is OUT!!!!!!
Yes, Yes, Yes.
I feel so grateful that it's done and now it's up on the web, available for you to listen to it and watch the video.
Let me just talk a little bit about my experience with Christmas Blue.
The whole idea
So one day I thought it would be great to release a Christmas song this year but not just another happy Christmas song to dance to and have fun. I had a very special purpose in my mind for this song. I wanted it to be about depression.
I didn't know anything about Christmas depression, I hadn't heard of it anywhere or maybe I didn't remember having heard of it in the past but when I thought to myself "Christmas Depression" it sounded right and logical. Then I started thinking about it and I concluded that it is a fact that people might feel depressed at Christmas. After that, I searched about it and I found out that it is a thing. It's a legitimate kind of depression with which people deal at Christmas.
So, I started developing this idea in my head about a Christmas song that would be about depression. There were a lot of things on my mind, many scattered thoughts that needed to be under an order.
Creative process
I started thinking of titles but none of them was good enough. The first one actually was Violet Christmas. Of course, to find a title, I was inspired by Elvis Presley's song's title "Blue Christmas". So, I wanted to find a dark kind of blue-ish color to accompany "Christmas". First up was Violet Christmas but it was not good enough. I didn't like Purple Christmas or any shade of purple or blue along with "Christmas". Then I remembered Lana Del Rey's song "Blue velvet" and I decided to name my song Velvet Christmas, thinking that velvet was a shade of purple. But guess what. I didn't know that velvet is clothing material and NOT a color. I'm sorry, I'm not a native speaker and there are a lot of things and words that I forget in English sometimes. Anyway, I was out of inspiration. My mind was empty. I had no clue. I started losing patience as it was already November and I still had no song. I was figuring out stuff on Fl studio, making melodies and trying to get inspiration by Nicki Minaj's Moment 4 Life as that one particular song had a vibe that I really wanted my song to have too. But trying to sort of imitate that song's structure and pattern was really a huge mistake because there was no good result in the end and all I had was a bad attempt to try something unique.
Let me point out that I had already written the two rap verses of the song and all I had left to do was to find a melody for the chorus and produce the song.
I was feeling uninspired. I was feeling lost. Nothing would come up.
Until one day... as I was in the kitchen of my house, I found a title AND a freaking chorus for the song. I immediately took my phone and recorded it and I was SO SO HAPPY that day. Because I was finally ready to start figuring out the chords and overall producing the song.
What Christmas Blue really means.
Christmas Blue is a term I came up with that day and it's actually Blue (the color). So, Christmas Blue is a certain shade of blue that it's Christmassy but also very sad. Blue in English means also melancholy so it would make total sense if I told you that my song was saying "Let go of the Christmas Melancholy" but the original idea was that Christmas blue was a special melancholic shade of blue but it was melancholic in a christmassy way. I don't know if it makes sense in your mind but to my imaginative mind, it does.
So, that's how I came up with the song. I started producing it and some days or weeks later it was ready. I went to the studio and recorded it.
Music Video
When I was generating the idea of the song in my mind I was also trying to find an idea for a music video. And so I did! At first I had this idea that included 4 girls that had fought or something and now they weren't so close. But Christmas were coming and all four of them would miss each other until the day of Christmas where they would all hang out and exchange presents having fun, laughing and reuniting with each other. But for that idea to come true, I didn't have any actors as I'm living in Athens and all the people I was comfortable with putting in my video were actually back in my hometown, Crete. There was a chaos in my mind as I was trying to find a solution or another idea for the music video. But then my brother and me decided to visit my parents in Crete once more before Christmas and so after thinking about it a little bit, I had a solution. I would film the video in Crete with my friends. There were supposed to be 4 friends in the video but one of them couldn't make it so I was left with three of them. The one was already in Athens and the other two were in Crete. And then I came up with a plot twist. It was a group of 3 girls and one of them had moved to Athens and since that happened, the other two girls didn't talk anymore for some reasons, I don't know, it's not my business :P.
And the two girls reunited at the end of the video and video chatted the other girl.
That idea was not enough though. The song was about depression and I wanted to show something more depressing. And so I thought of putting a depressing man in the video who would struggle with depression. The idea was just fine but there was just one problem. How was I supposed to connect the two stories. All I knew was that I wanted an angel to talk to the girls individually and get them to reunite. But I didn't know how to connect the two stories. I talked to a couple of people but nobody help me find a solution. Until I talked with my parents and they told me that I could make the depressing man fall asleep and somehow with a magic way portray his soul as it comes out of his body and becomes and angel and then helps the girls. After that, the angel-soul would come back to the human's body and the man would feel happy and delighted. As my parents and me were talking, we generated the idea and I loved it. I didn't know how I would make that possible on the editing of the video but I wasn't pessimistic; I knew I'd find a way.
I worked on the video for 2 days straight. The first day I edited the whole thing and saved it. The second day, I had to deal with the glitches that would show up in my video file and I had to redo some parts and change them completely to make the glitches go away. That process of me trying to avoid any possible glitches, saving my project, rendering it in a video file, watching it, spotting the errors in the result and then doing that again, lasted a whole day.
I was kind of upset but I didn't lose hope. The video was done, it was perfect and I uploaded it.
I would like to publicly say thank you to my three best friends, Eleni (Kylie), Katerina (Tessa) and Eleni (Cindy) for helping me out with the video. I wouldn't have that result without them. I'd like to say a big THANK YOU for always being by my side, willing to help me with whatever I need. Katerina and Eleni (Cindy) have both been in previous videos of mine but it was the first time that Eleni (Kylie) participated in one of my videos and I'm really happy about it. She helped me with the decoration. She actually decorated the room in which she's in in the video. I literally thought I had everything planned in my mind until I came in the room and I didn't know where to start. But then she came and turned an empty white room with a sofa into a wonderful Christmassy living room. Oh, I feel so good about that decoration. I fell in love with it. I didn't want to ruin it after the shooting was done.
That's all!
That's it, people. Thank you so much for reading this blog post. I wanted to give you an inside look of everything that happened while I was preparing this video. I hope you liked my new song. If you did, be sure to SHARE and send it to a friend who you think is struggling with depression. it might help them.
Also, like, comment and SUBSCRIBE. That would help me make my dreams come true.
Thank you so much for supporting me on my journey. You're one of a kind.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I wouldn't do it without you.
Peace, Lionder
DOWNLOAD MY SONG: https://lionder.bandcamp.com/track/christmas-blue
Facebook: http://smarturl.it/LionderFB Twitter: http://smarturl.it/LionderTwitter Blogger: http://smarturl.it/LionderBlog Blogger: http://smarturl.it/LDblogger Instagram: http://smarturl.it/ItsLionder SoundCloud: http://smarturl.it/LionderSC Google+: http://smarturl.it/LionderGoogle YouTube: http://smarturl.it/LionderYT Bandcamp: http://smarturl.it/LionderBC
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