The only thing I added at home was the harmonica because I just bought it to put on my record.

Then I took it home and layered it all together. It was one take I was like, “leave it all in.” You can hear it at the end of the song where it's just static and crackling and all this weird shit. It was phasing in and out and filtering and it was cracking and it sounded like it was breaking apart and ripping. I shouldn't have been playing it and it was doing all these things it was not supposed to do. They had this one old Juno and apparently it had been dropped a bunch of times, and it was super old and broken and it was breaking as I played it and I told them to hit record. They had all these old synthesizers, which was easily the coolest part. The next two days, I started building on it bit by little bit. I sat in the room and listened to it for like an hour, formulating all my ideas. And then I went in I started with that guitar, I sat on the floor in the middle of the main room and did my little weird guitar tuning and little strumming pattern, and recorded the whole song on the guitar. But before I got out there, I made a demo of the song testing out what I wanted it to sound like here at home with the stuff I had. There was a vocal booth and a piano room and then the big, massive room where the drums were and the guitars and the synths, and there was an organ and then the big control room. But with this, it was recorded at Spotify Studio in LA and I was like, “Oh my god, I'm gonna be very out of my comfort zone.” I got there and it was a huge studio. I like to do everything myself and then if there's something I can't do, I'll usually have one of my good friends do it like drums or some guitar that is out of my skill range. Usually, I work alone at home, like in this room completely by myself. I cannot imagine being censored and chopped up and screwed like that, it must be awful, so awful.Īs far as production for this cover goes, you played all the instruments, right? A lot of women are still funneled into that pop route now and are still heavily censored or steered, but I don't think anywhere as bad as it was when Britney came up. I think Britney started in the music industry in a generation that had less creative control for women, specifically, and I think it was like, 'You have to follow this formula because we're trying to make you as big as possible, which means we have to water you down.” And I think they really stifled her, but her career could have gone very, very differently had she been allowed the freedom that women in the industry have now.

There's this idea that Britney’s not creatively involved or that she doesn’t have a point of view, but it sounds like that’s not true at all. I have a few friends that worked on Glory and the stories they have about her being involved in the songwriting concepts are really interesting.

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