Anna and I created and recorded a duet for the album, Believe In You. There are at least two ways of duetifying a song. One is you take turns singing one verse each and share the chorus. Let's call this A. The other way is to rewrite parts of the lyrics for a girl (in this case) and then I sing my lyrics and she sings hers. This is B.
The problem with A is that the song is probably about a girl, and why is a girl then singing parts of it? Logically it doesn't make sense. However it's quite common you just make it a duet because it just sounds neater. I don't know if I'm OK with that. It just doesn't make sense to have the girl sing to herself like that. The fact that we used method B on Believe In You was great in the respect that we sing it to each other, and Anna actually wrote the lyrics for the verse that she sings.
The reason I'm thinking about this right now is that we have a song, There Were Times, that will go on the album. I would love to make it a duet, but it's not possible to use the B method, since the lyrics must be exactly as they are right now. Oh now I actually came up with something, there is a possible "answer" that she could actually sing, and we could still keep the end of the song. Let's see what happens, A or B, that is the question for this song.
On a side note to Believe In You, something that is really interesting there I think (which our feminist drummer came up with), Anna actually makes up the stable, masculine voice in the song. In the chorus she sings lower than me, and the verses are so very high for me to sing so I sound like a scared little boy, but for her it makes her sound like someone you can lean on.
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