Two Songs and What's Next
I Want to Date a Millennial and Baby I'll Crawl (secret band rehearsal video)
I offer two songs for your enjoyment and what I’m planning in regards to music and content.
I Want to Date a Millennial
Baby I’ll Crawl
Song #1: I Want to Date a Millennial
I Want to Date a Millennial was written based on a Facebook Messenger conversation with Deb. This was before we were a couple and she would make fun of my mostly failed dating attempts.
Hint: The two of us talking openly as friends and hanging out, each making fun of the other’s romantic tribulations, provided a liberating - “you know the real me” - friendship. She was and is my favorite person to talk to - even if she is the meanest girlfriend ever.
She was telling me that a woman I was giving some attention to was too young for me. I responded and said, “I want to date a millennial.” Almost immediately I followed it with, “That’s a song idea.”
A day or two later I showed it to her and she loved it.
The song starts with a somewhat frivolous take on dating a millennial but, by the end, has a message of personal redemption and self-love. I’ve had more than a few people tell me it is their favorite song of mine. That works for me.
Here is the lyric video with the lyrics written out below it. Oh, Deb created the lyric video and took the Thumbnail photo up in Santa Barbara.
LYRICS: I Want to Date a Millennial
© 2018 - Matthew Moran
I wanna date a millennial
Fill up on designer tea and tofu
Endure my peers, their disapproving glances
Is it the years or the yoga pants
I wanna date some old hippie chick
Long gray hair and a painted hiking stick
Who still believes that love is all you need
And in smoking dope and nudity
I wanna date a generation Y
I'm not really sure of my reasons why
Lost somewhere between X and the end
Maybe she can encourage me to love again
I wanna date almost anyone
Who can help me enjoy some inappropriate fun
Laughing when they know it's not allowed
And won’t respond with a frown or scowl
I wanna date my younger self
Practice self love and some mental health
Help him recognize the value of each day
Take all this regret and toss it away
Song #2: Baby I’ll Crawl
Baby I’ll Crawl is NOT one of Deb’s favorites. She’s says it’s okay. The inspiration was the aforementioned younger woman who partially agreed to, then could not commit, to a casual date.
In true mean girlfriend form, when I play the song, Deb will tease me, “Oh… I’m so pathetic, I’ll crawl to you.” Like I said, she’s mean. I tolerate it because she’s sweet. Figure that one out.
I found this version two days ago while cleaning up some old files from my phone. It was taken from a band rehearsal in 2018. As indicated in the video, we had me, Tom Galella on drums, and Timothy Hyatt on bass.
While the audio is less than stellar, our performance is pretty good. Both Tom and I comment about it at the end, which I kept in the video.
Hope you enjoy.
About Those Next Steps
This image is a screen shot of one section of my song list. Some of 2007 through mid-2010.
The color coding needs to be updated. It basically lets me know which songs I know well enough to comfortably play live. Green means - YES!, Red means - BIG NOPE!
But I can already see songs that should be changed from 3 to 1 because I’ve been playing some behind the scenes.
The real take away for me is something I’ve alluded to previously.
I have a LOT of songs. I began writing songs, sporadically, starting in high school - even before, though none of those survived. In 2006 I began writing more intentionally. I believe, since 2006, I may have written 200+ songs. Most of them I consider good enough and many of them I consider, very good.
As indicated in my previous article, I have a few people recording parts to, Making Peace with the War. In a future article, I explain the process and objective of recording across the Internet and, ultimately, having an engineer/producer mix the final version.
Short reason: play to your strengths.
We’ll be producing a music video as soon as the song is done. A real-life, bona fide, different scenes, music video. Both scary and super-exciting.
But anyway, about all those songs. I am consistent in my inconsistency with putting out music and videos on YouTube. More than a few times, listeners, friends, and fellow artists have suggested I do an acoustic performance video each week from my back catalog.
One song a week: 52 songs a year. Given that I’ve written several songs in the past few months and I’m back-logged with material, it will take me four (4) years to catch up.
I’ve told Deb that I will shoot those performance videos - two microphones, one for my guitar, one for vocals - with simple lighting, if SHE does the final edits and output. Even on simple videos, editing and rendering (output) is the LONGEST process and given my programming/work schedule, I simply do not have time to do this myself.
Each week I’ll record one live acoustic performance from the back catalog or a newly written tune, and add it to my YouTube channel, which you should subscribe to, of course. I’ll also record a first person video where I discuss the song and/or progress with Making Peace or any other newsworthy items.
The performance video will be shot on Saturday or Sunday, handed off to Deb, and should be published on Wednesday.
I’d love to have all of you come along for that journey.
With Gratitude and Love,
Matthew Moran
September 8, 2022
PS: Extra
I took a trip to San Francisco, which means I escaped a few days of our 108 degree heat. I took a river rafting trip with my team at Meta and got to visit and hang out with my oldest son, Matthew. Below are a few photos from the trip.