Q: How did the 'La de da de da de da de day oh' song come to be? It sounds so good to me! It probably was similar to the process of other songs, but I'm asking because, in my opinion, it really stands out, and I want to know more about it.
A: this may sound boring and technical but i wrote some of it on a writing session, then wrote a bit more of it on a writing session, and then finally wrote the remainder of the song during a writing session. that's the short story. the long story is, i was doing a writing session many many years ago after many years of not doing writing sessions. actually it felt like i had never done a writing session before, it had been so long. i know i did many years before that, but it seemed so far away and i'm not quite sure how i ever did it. too long ago to remember really, and the world had surely changed since then, mine and everyone else's. so i was doing something which i think might have been totally new, i was just writing. not in the recording thing, not trying to record and write at the same time, just writing. like on paper, and i had 1 instrument to play along to what i was singing, and weirdly it was an unplugged bass. which doesn't quite make sense but it was a quiet room and i was just using it to indicate chords. not play chords, but just play the bass notes to indicate chords. so a few things were written on that session, including a thing that looked like