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Sometimes, it takes a long time to create brilliance. People spend weeks, months, or even years working on their masterpiece, be it a book, a painting, a sculpture, or some other work of art. And then sometimes, it all comes together in just a few minutes. Of course, you can\u2019t write an entire book in just a couple minutes. (Trust us; we\u2019ve tried!) But you can write a song in just a few minutes! Even a very brilliant song!<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s what we\u2019re looking at in this list today. We\u2019ll take a stroll through music memory lane and recall how ten very popular, very famous songs were all written in just a couple quick minutes. The songwriters in these cases had a flash of brilliance in an instant. They then put it down on paper, and over time, it proved iconic! <\/p>\n
Related: <\/strong>10 Albums by Great Bands That Were Never Released<\/a><\/p>\n Let\u2019s start with a song that wasn\u2019t even written in a few minutes at all\u2014it was written in a dream! Paul McCartney was staying in a room at the family home of a friend on Wimpole Street in London one day early on in his tenure with The Beatles. He went to bed one night just like normal. The next morning, he woke up, and bam! There was a melody in his head! <\/p>\n The tune was burning through his brain. McCartney tried to ignore it at first. He assumed it was a jazz song he\u2019d heard his father play for him years before. But the melody proved so catchy that he simply couldn\u2019t let it slide. So he went to the piano and knocked out a song right then and there. And that song, of course, became \u201cYesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI was living in a little flat at the top of a house, and I had a piano by my bed,\u201d McCartney recalled years later. \u201cI woke up one morning with a tune in my head, and I thought, \u2018Hey, I don\u2019t know this tune\u2026 I went to the piano and found the chords to it, made sure I remembered it, and then hawked it round to all my friends, asking what it was: \u2018Do you know this? It\u2019s a good little tune, but I couldn\u2019t have written it because I dreamt it.\u2019\u201d[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n One of the most iconic \u201980s hair metal songs of all time was written in just five minutes. And the band didn\u2019t even expect it to become a hit! Yes, we\u2019re talking about Guns N\u2019 Roses and their catchy tune \u201cSweet Child o\u2019 Mine<\/a>.\u201d The whole thing took shape when group members Slash and Izzy Stradlin were playing around on their guitars and doing interesting riffs. <\/p>\n Lead singer Axl Rose liked the sound of one of the riffs, so he used it as an opportunity to write up a song. And his then-girlfriend Erin Everly was the perfect muse for it, functioning as the \u201csweet child\u201d so termed in the track. And in five minutes, that was that!<\/p>\n Band member Duff McKagan recalled the situation years later in an interview. Even so long after, he was still shocked that \u201cSweet Child o\u2019 Mine\u201d became such a hit. \u201cIt was written in five minutes,\u201d McKagan said matter-of-factly. \u201cIt was one of those songs, only three chords. You know that guitar lick Slash does at the beginning? It was kinda like a joke because we thought, \u2018What is this song? It\u2019s gonna be nothing. It\u2019ll be filler on the record.\u2019\u201d And then it wasn\u2019t!<\/p>\n By the way, that\u2019s not the only Guns N\u2019 Roses song that was written in a bizarre way that turned out to be a mega-hit. One of their other supremely popular and most well-known tracks is \u201cParadise City.\u201d And that one was written in the back of a rental van while the group was crammed in among each other and all their gear while commuting between shows! <\/p>\n The boys were on their way home to Los Angeles from a show in San Francisco when they started playing around with lyrics and guitar riffs. Now, \u201cParadise City\u201d took a bit longer than five minutes to write. They did have an hours-long trip home to LA to do it. But imagine the group all crammed into the back of a van (and perhaps drinking a little bit, too) and knocking out another iconic song almost as an afterthought![2]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n David Lee Murphy released his debut country music album Out With A Bang<\/em> in 1995, and despite the title, it didn\u2019t exactly go out with a bang. That is until he released a fourth single off the album called \u201cDust on the Bottle.\u201d After minor successes with his first three singles, this fourth one hit big. It shot to number one on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts in late \u201995 and stayed there for weeks. But the crazy part of that story isn\u2019t only that it was an unlikely hit. It\u2019s that it was written in just a few minutes one morning\u2014while Murphy and his producers were already recording other tracks for the album!<\/p>\n \u201cWe started recording on a Monday, and Tuesday morning, I was drinking coffee at my kitchen table,\u201d Murphy recalled years later. \u201cI started playing the opening chords on my guitar for \u2018Dust on the Bottle.\u2019 It just came out of nowhere. The song just fell out in, like, 15 minutes.\u201d And as it turned out, that was that!<\/p>\n \u201cI called Tony Brown, who was producing my record, and I told him, \u2018Man, I just wrote this new song,\u2019\u201d Murphy added. \u201cWe had all the songs picked out already for the album. He told me to bring it in and play it for him that day. When he heard the song, he said, \u2018Man, we\u2019ve got to cut this.\u2019 So we cut it, and what\u2019s on the record is the first take of the song. A lot of the vocals on it were the first time I sang it.\u201d[3]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n Adele was just 16 years old when she wrote \u201cHometown Glory.\u201d The song would become her debut hit and eventually catapult her into superstardom. She wrote the entire thing in less than ten minutes after getting into an angsty fight with her mother about what she wanted to do with the rest of her life. At the time, Adele\u2019s mom was worried about the teenager\u2019s direction in the world. <\/p>\n She wanted her beloved daughter to go to college instead of striking it out on the rough path of the music business. But Adele was too stubborn to listen. So, in the midst of a blow-up about their competing interests, the teenage singer stormed off to her bedroom, locked herself away, and wrote \u201cHometown Glory\u201d in less than ten minutes. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s called \u2018Hometown Glory,\u2019 and it was all about how I felt about London and stuff like that,\u201d Adele recalled years later (and long after she became world famous) during a 2015 BBC show. \u201cI actually wrote it on guitar, and I was at school at the time. I actually find this song really emotional now. So much has happened since I wrote it, and it\u2019s been like 11 years since I wrote it. So my whole career has happened, and it\u2019s one of my favorites still, to this day.\u201d[4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Charlie Puth and Wiz Khalifa came together for quite a memorable hit nearly a decade ago now when they released \u201cSee You Again.\u201d And while the song is simple, it\u2019s also remarkably poignant and very meaningful for both artists, as well as for fans who were moved by it. So you\u2019ll be no doubt stunned to note that such a moving song was only written in ten minutes! And if you don\u2019t believe that, well, Charlie himself has the technology time stamps to prove it. <\/p>\n In a 2015 interview with MTV News, the New Jersey-born singer revealed that he wrote out the entire song in the Notes app on his phone in just a couple minutes upon getting the inspiration for it unexpectedly one day. And just as soon as he started, he was done\u2014and he had a mega-hit on his hands! Pretty ironic, considering Charlie famously sings \u201cIt\u2019s been a long day\u201d as part of the very first line of the song, right? Because of his songwriting process, it wasn\u2019t a long day at all!<\/p>\n \u201cI wrote the song on July 17 at 6 pm,\u201d Puth told MTV. \u201cI know that because I have it saved in my phone, the lyric note. \u2026 I want to frame that. I wrote it in 10 minutes, which is very unusual. Usually, songs take a little bit longer to write for me.\u201d[5]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n If it sounds to you like Queen\u2019s song \u201cCrazy Little Thing Called Love\u201d was inspired by the likes of Elvis Presley, well, you\u2019d be exactly right. The late Freddie Mercury wrote it back in the day after being heavily influenced by two of his longtime musical heroes: Elvis and Sir Cliff Richard. Wanting to deliver a song that was up to par with the music those two had been putting out, Mercury came up with \u201cCrazy Little Thing Called Love.\u201d <\/p>\n Ever since, it\u2019s been a Queen staple and one of their most well-known and well-loved tracks. But you\u2019re not here for music history. You\u2019re here for the crazy story of how it all came together in a flash! According to Queen\u2019s Brian May and Roger Taylor, Freddie wrote the song in \u201cabout ten minutes\u201d while he was in the bathtub. Yes, really! Not only did Mercury pen the track in a relative instant, but he was having a soak in the tub while doing it. Sounds relaxing! <\/p>\n At the time Freddie wrote the track in 1979, Queen was used to going into the studio with very little as far as pre-recording preparation. They preferred to get their musical inspirations together in one big group and see what came up. And they made some great tracks that way! But not with \u201cCrazy Little Thing Called Love.\u201d This one was Freddie\u2019s baby from the start.<\/p>\n \u201cWe got into this rather indulgent way of just bowling into the studio with no ideas, or very few ideas, and just doing it from scratch,\u201d May recalled years later. \u201c[But Freddie] was very fond of Elvis and of Cliff. \u2026 Freddie wrote it very quickly and rushed in and put it down with the boys. By the time I got there, it was almost done.\u201d[6]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Why write a song in five or ten minutes when you can write a masterpiece in no time at all? That\u2019s what Ray Charles thought to himself one day in 1958 when he got into a bit of a bind in the middle of a show and needed to pivot somewhere new\u2014and fast. <\/p>\n See, the legendary musician was playing a show at a club in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, one night in December 1958. The only problem was that he was booked to play for a very, very long time. Longer than he had pre-planned music to fill! Twelve minutes longer, in fact. And when he got through every song he knew and realized he still had those twelve minutes to fill, he panicked a little bit.<\/p>\n But then, something came to him. He thought back to the days of his youth and how the preacher in church every Sunday would always call things out that the congregation would repeat back to him. Drawing on that, Charles moved to improvise a bit. He turned back to his band and told them to follow his lead. Then, he looked over to his backup singers, The Raeletts, and asked them to simply repeat everything he said in rhythm. And that\u2019s how \u201cWhat\u2019d I Say\u201d was born!<\/p>\n \u201cI had sung everything I could think of,\u201d Charles remembered years later. \u201cSo I said to the guys, \u2018Look, I\u2019m going to start this thing off, I don\u2019t know where I\u2019m going, so y\u2019all just follow me.\u2019 And I said to the girls, \u2018Whatever I say, just repeat after me.\u2019\u201d And it worked! Of course, improvisation on stage at a show isn\u2019t exactly a new thing. But the fact that Charles crafted such a tight and memorable song in literal seconds\u2014and then moved to make it an actual single on a record later after liking it so much\u2014undoubtedly proves his considerable musical genius.[7]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n Sia became something of an unlikely pop star in 2014 when her hit \u201cChandelier\u201d caught radio play all over the English-speaking world and became one of the biggest singles of the year. Even now, a decade later, it is still a staple when it comes to pop music. And it seems to be on every single high-energy playlist put together by anyone at any age under about 50 at this point! <\/p>\n So to say the Aussie had major success with the catchy tune would be a bit of an understatement, right? But success doesn\u2019t always come about after months or years of careful and painstaking work. Sometimes, it comes about after 15 minutes of good luck!<\/p>\n In an interview with NPR not long after the song was first released, Sia spoke candidly about how she came up with the whole thing in just a couple minutes longer than it takes you to brush your teeth! \u201c\u2018Chandelie\u2019 took, like, four minutes to write the chords and then, like, 12-15 minutes to write the lyrics,\u201d Sia told the outlet. And that wasn\u2019t all! When it came time to go into the studio to record it, that went very fast, too! \u201c[It was] probably 10 or 15 minutes to cut the vocals,\u201d she added.\u201d Less than a half hour of actual work later, and Sia had a mega-hit on her hands![8]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n There are few songs more iconic than \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You\u201d by Mariah Carey. Just saying the title will have you singing it in your head for the next few hours\u2014or days. So, uh, we\u2019re sorry about that. But this song does very much fit the bill as part of this list, considering its sudden and lightning-fast spark toward lyrical genius. <\/p>\n Carey wrote the song alongside veteran songwriter Walter Afanasieff. And while those two have each written quite a few songs before, neither one of them expected the Christmas classic to come about as quickly as it did. In fact, Afanasieff thinks that the song has endured so long simply because they wrote it so quickly and trusted their gut about what makes a good love song (and a good holiday song!). <\/p>\n Speaking to Billboard years after \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You\u201d began to annually dominate the holiday season, Afanasieff explained how he and Carey honed in on the track in just minutes after first setting out to write it. \u201cWe would write the nucleus of the song, the melody, primary music, and then some of the words were there as we finished writing it,\u201d he explained. \u201cThat one went very quickly. It was an easier song to write than some of the other ones.\u201d Easier to write for both of them, better to sing for Mariah, and ideal to play on repeat by all of us every time the month of December rolls around.[9]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n We all know \u201cGirls Just Want to Have Fun\u201d will forever be tied to Cyndi Lauper. But did you know she didn\u2019t write it? And that alone isn\u2019t especially weird since pop stars don\u2019t always write their own music anyway. But here\u2019s where it gets really weird: It was actually written, recorded, and released by an entirely different performer\u2014a male performer, no less\u2014four years before Cyndi had ever heard of it! <\/p>\n The man\u2019s name was Robert Hazard<\/a>, and he was a musician and performer in his own right. He was in the shower one day in 1979 when he started thinking up a melody for a new song. In less than 20 minutes\u2014while he was soaping up and scrubbing with shampoo\u2014he came up with the lyrics and melody for \u201cGirls Just Want to Have Fun.\u201d That\u2019s quite a productive shower!<\/p>\n Well, he recorded it later in 1979 and then released it. The song didn\u2019t really go anywhere for him. If you\u2019re like us, chances are you\u2019ve never heard of Hazard before this moment. But other producers took note of the catchy melody and filed it away in the back of their heads. One of those producers in question was Rick Chertoff. And when 1983 rolled around, he was flummoxed with trying to find the right material to produce Lauper\u2019s debut album She\u2019s So Unusual<\/em>. Recalling Hazard\u2019s catchy song from four years earlier, Chertoff reached out to him.<\/p>\n Then, Rick set up a meeting between Hazard and Lauper. The duo changed up a few lyrics in order for the song to make better sense as part of Cyndi\u2019s \u201cgirl power\u201d aesthetic. And then they were off to the races! In short order, Lauper\u2019s recording of \u201cGirls Just Want to Have Fun\u201d turned out to be a mega-hit. It dominated the charts for much of 1983 and 1984. Then, the music video\u2019s release on then-fast-growing MTV ensured Lauper had a new audience all over the globe. And it all started when a random (to Cyndi, at least) guy thought up a song in a couple minutes while showering.[10]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \nFuente: https:\/\/ift.tt\/rbWqpuZ Sometimes, it takes a long time to create brilliance. People spend weeks, months, or even years working on their masterpiece, be it a book, a painting, a sculpture, or some other work of art. And then sometimes, it all comes together in just a few minutes. 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9<\/span> \u201cSweet Child o\u2019 Mine\u201d by Guns N\u2019 Roses<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
8<\/span> \u201cDust on the Bottle\u201d by David Lee Murphy<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
7<\/span> \u201cHometown Glory\u201d by Adele<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
6<\/span> \u201cSee You Again\u201d by Charlie Puth<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
5<\/span> \u201cCrazy Little Thing Called Love\u201d by Queen<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
4<\/span> \u201cWhat\u2019d I Say\u201d by Ray Charles<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
3<\/span> \u201cChandelier\u201d by Sia<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
2<\/span> \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You\u201d by Mariah Carey<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
1<\/span> \u201cGirls Just Want to Have Fun\u201d by Cyndi Lauper<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
\nPublicado: March 28, 2024 at 01:04AM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"