A New Era - AlexGB231 ft SOLARIA from Synth V (Neural Anthems)
Channel: AlexGB231
Date: 2023-09-09

And here we go, the first track of this new era of AlexGB231 vocal songs with Synth V. And, of course, because I'm *so* creative with my song premises, I call it 'A New Era' and make the song topic about the fact that we're starting a new era of AlexGB231 vocal songs with Synth V...

In any case, it's a pretty fun song to open the album, for sure! The chord progression throughout is F - G - Bb - F, or I - II - IV - I. The chord progression was actually the very first thing related to the song I came up with - I've always wanted to do something with this progression. It's not particularly common nowadays, but it has appeared in songs such as 'Forget You' by CeeLo Green, Rooftop Run from Sonic Unleashed (which would be *the* song that I associate most with the progression as I'm a Sonic fan, go figure), and one that I almost kinda forgot about, but it's a classic one - 'School of Rock (Teacher's Pet)'. God, that film's a classic one, I remember watching it when I was a lot younger, and the song I talk about is a fun one indeed! Another fun fact about that film - the person who played the main character in that film went on to play Bowser in the Mario Movie, so yeah.

Anyway, tangent over, back to this song now... One fun thing I do with the rhythm is I anticipate every downbeat by playing the chord an eighth note before beat 1 for that more punchy feeling! It's a fun little thing that really adds to the energy of the song, I feel!

This was actually one of the earliest songs I worked on for the album. Dreams was the *earliest* song I worked on, but this one has been in the works for a pretty long time. Plus, the fact that I've always wanted to write a I - II - IV song, and I've finally done that now to start the new era of AlexGB231 vocal songs. The lyrics took a while to come up with for this song - I actually came up with the musical idea first which, to be fair, is not a surprise, I always come up with the musical ideas before the lyrics, but in this case, I literally did not know what I wanted the song to be about until much later on! Whether the lyrics ended up being good in the end, I'll leave that up to you lot to decide.

With all that said, I hope you lot enjoy it!

Lyrics: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jSKVP4Lmwl21VxQkJeRrmi3y-zw6XFgB/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=105345916162945874673&rtpof=true&sd=true

Listen to 'A New Era' on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5QjkUAQyEW6Bp84qlhxyot?si=77011ef82c364513

Listen to the whole of Neural Anthems on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/123DPRpoRcWsKB6VnI9DZd?si=XqiHPIj8Qxek8HfeR7jMVw