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Overnight Success
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Here's a satirical song about a record company giving you deal because they like what you have, but change everything about you and make you sound like everybody else to sell albums... It's a sad song really
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Extra Extra really started out as a solo project, and when I decided to cut these tunes, I had some friends who wanted to participate in the making of the album
Extra Extra started out primarily as a studio project, focusing on a wide array of styles that really had no pin-pointed boundries.Through this noncompliance approach, but still having a love for pop structures, came some very interesting compositions. The music is free spirited and loaded with musical and lyrical conviction, with memorable hooks and interesting twists.
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Genre
Alternative • Alternative General
Charts
Peak #355
Peak in subgenre #113
Author
David Norris
Rights
2000
Uploaded
January 11, 2003
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MP3 3.6 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
I wrote this song about my own struggles trying to make it in the music business the last twenty years...a lot of it is fiction, I kind of just closed my eyes and imagined what it would be like....
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Hey mom, I'm on the radio The last few years I've been changin' my tune I was just invited to play the late, late show But it feels like I'm in somebody else's shoes I'm an Overnight Success And it only took me twenty years Look at the way they have me dressed And the way they've done my hair I'm an overnight success Am I too old for this? Don't worry, I'll look over my shoulder You're too concerned about me getting used Back home I was never too popular But now I've got friends coming out of the blue I'm an overnight success And it only took me twenty years Look at the way they have me dressed And the way they've done my hair I'm an overnight success Am I too old for this? I worked my fingers to the bone Spent half my life trying to get a sound of my own But they tell me they think they know better You've got to sound a little more like Vedder Or at least someone who sounds an awful lot like him Boy, if you're going to make it in this scene Don't play so clean Think the the color green If you expect for me to drop another dime into this pop machine Hey mom, I'm on the road again I'm calling just to let you know I'm doing fine Sorry, but I can't make the holidays 'Cause once again I was told to sign on the dotted line I'm an overnight success And it only took me twenty years Look at the way they have me dressed And the way they've done my hair I'm an overnight success Am I too old for this? Am I too old to be an overnight success? Hey mom, I'm on the radio...
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