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Monday, December 10, 2012

It's a well established fact that Amelie and Toby come from a long line of highly successful songwriters. Despite some dodgy earlier efforts, I myself achieved lyrical perfection with 'The Piglet Song', a hauntingly evocative muse on porcine anatomy that was met with both international success and critical acclaim, while Lisa has successfully reinterpreted an old skool classic by providing a fresh new twist on 'London's Burning', incorporating some fierce beatboxing and unplanned animal noises.

So it will come as no surprise to anyone to hear that Amelie has already completed her first musical composition. They say that Mozart wrote 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' when he was five, but firstly that's not true, and secondly Amelie's only four. And she started working on this when she was three. So she's streets ahead on every level.

She first came to me with this musical work-in-progress about three months ago, and has performed it for us on a few occasions since, honing it each time with slightly different lyrics and a tune which is hard to pin down. In recent weeks however, she's settled on a set of words that she's happy with, and a melody which, whilst not immediately catchy in the traditional sense, is unchanging, and what Paul Gambaccini might call a grower.

The impressive thing is that whilst at first listen it might sound like a rambling, tuneless old mish-mash, the performance is consistent, and after you've heard it six times a day, it's hard to get out of your head, and is a definite earworm. And Amelie wrote it all by herself. At least she says she did. And no one else is owning up to it. In fact it's proving such a hit that she's now taking it on tour.

So here, for the first time in front of a global audience, is Amelie's debut performance of 'Twinkling Stars'...


I'll be honest, I did have my reservations about the line 'Twinkling stars in the night, twinkling all day', but Lisa claims that's explained by the 'never stopping' bit. She also says the lyrics are better than 'The Piglet Song', which is slightly outrageous. And besides, I was focusing more on the tune.

9 comments:

Lisa said...

Produced by Lisa Gardner. Literally.

Phil's Mum said...

That was the FIRST painful experience.

Jon the Bassist said...

I love that song.

A Passer-By said...

When are you going to put all Amelie's Christmas songs onto a DVD and release it (at a price!) to the unsuspecting public?

Lisa said...

It would have to be a two disc DVD. We're going to have to take a packed lunch to this Christmas concert.

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