Did
you ever hear a song on the radio that made you pull over to the side of road
just to listen to it? Is there one you and your friends would sing and act out
the respective parts to? Was there that concert where you got out the Bic
lighter (the predecessor of our cell phones) and waved it in the air, singing
along at the top of your lungs? And don’t those songs just wrap themselves
around you still, like a warm hug when you hear them?
Well,
one of the cool things about making this record has been having the opportunity
to think about what made each of those types of songs I loved special, and then
writing something that both respects and carries on that legacy.
And
that brings me to – the anthem. You gotta have an anthem. The one everybody
sings along with after hearing it only once, the one that has a message that
bears repeating (a whole bunch of times).
Mine
is called “We are the Ones.” And what better way to have a sing along than to
actually have friends sing along with
me on the record?!! (Of course, this would never work if all your friends were
tone deaf, but that only occurred to me after
realizing all my friends sang.)
So
here’s a little video clip of “Ilene’s Angels” rehearsing “We are the Ones”
this past week.
I
can’t wait for you to hear it when all the moving parts are put together!
We’re
getting closer and closer to the finished album, and I could not appreciate you
being part of it more!
Huge
grateful hugs to every single one of you!
Ilene
with Tanya Leah, Anthony Barone, BethAnne Clayton, Garry Novikoff, Arnie Roman, Jeryl Brunner, and Marvin Levy
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