hi! auditions: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/552782868 judge cuts: golden buzzer pass quarter finals: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/608827512 and here we are at the semi finals YAY! so a bit of backstory on the song. i wrote it originally on february 16th 2021, but it has changed lots since then! i have improved it a ton over the months until its gotten to where it is today! i have included one of my first recording of this song just for funsies in the sounds of the project. the part of the entry that i worked the longest and hardest on is the audio file that i named “diary - original song” i worked on that for almost a month through soundtrap and i finished today. i didnt originally plan to include an acoustic version but i wanted to record one and i thought it would be fun so that is what the second button does! i would recommend listening to the original version first just so you know how it is supposed to sound! so i think this is pretty self explanatory but you can click the buttons to listen to the different version of the song and press space to stop the music/go back and choose a different version! if you hear a random pause for a second during the original version, it is because i had to upload the file as two separate sounds since the file was too big
okay onto the lyrics! (g) at the (c) start, we were as (em) happy as can (d) be (c) *repeat chords* and nobody else was as fortunate as we were but once we went home to your house and we found a book of your life and we passed it around between us (c) when you showed my your (em) diary i (d) read you didn't like being my friend it said you swore it was fake but i could see that you never really enjoyed (g) i forgave (c) you but i (em) couldn't just (d) forget (c) but that didn't mean that our time was over yet we kept quite close for many years to come because i knew you were not just anyone (c) when you showed my your (em) diary i (d) read you didn't like being my friend it said you swore it was fake but i could see that you never really enjoyed my company (c) and it made me wonder (em) what else could be (d) wrong with me and with our friendship or was it me all along sometimes i wish i hadn’t read that page cause why’d you have to show me your diary that day (g) i guess i know (c) now that there (em) is no (d) guarantee since it was clear that you didn't like me (that it wasnt meant to be) some time had passed and we began to drift apart and now i dont know, did you like me at the start? (c) when you showed my your (em) diary i (d) read you didn't like being my friend it said you swore it was fake but i could see that you never really enjoyed my company (c) and it made me wonder (em) what else could be (d) wrong with me and with our friendship or was it me all along sometimes i wish i hadn’t read that page cause why’d you have to show me your diary that day this song was based off of a true story. so as the song suggests, when i was probably in 3rd or 4th grade i went home to my best friend’s house. we were bored until we found her diary from 1st grade and we decided to read it together. it was fun until we found what she had written about me. it was nothing really mean or anything, and looking back i think its kind of funny but basically it said something along the lines of “ugh i had to play with *insert my name here* at recess again today, i hope im not friends with her in a few years” when we saw that, my friend reassured me that she didn’t mean it and that she was glad that we had stayed friends since nowadays we got along great! at the time i believed her so i forgot about that incident until a few years later when i decided to write a song about it! also i would like to add that im sure the person who wrote it didn’t intend to hurt anyone’s feelings. although the lyrics might seem like im mad at her, i dont have any bad feelings about her for that. my songs tend to be over exaggerated and dramatic haha! the next short thing i wanted to say is that i actually really love this song! i think some of the lyrics could have been better and i probably could have done a lot more with the whole song but i didnt have the time in just one month, but i hope to completely finish it some day and make it perfect! i will say, my favorite part of the song is the bridge/3rd verse/the slow part towards the end. that part has made me cry more than once (i am not kidding, its so sad!!) and i just think its so sad and pretty and oahfiaushdoiasj i love it so much!! every time i feel the need to apologize: the audio quality isnt great, there are some weird glitching and overlapping and strange parts that either i dont know how to fix or i am to lazy to fix but sorry about that! i am aware that the quality isnt perfect, but it just is that way lol ok onto the credits, last thing!!! i did a whole photo shoot for the thumbnail and i got a ton of really cool photos of that piece of paper and they turned out really cool and i would love to do like a photo dump project one day maybe but yeah that was really fun!! the photo and the paper and everything was by me if that wasnt already obvious haha the piano was also by me, i had to figure out how i wanted to do it since before this month ive only ever played the song on ukulele so that was fun!! so the song was put together by me in soundtrap. ive gotten some questions in the past on how i record, normally i record through the voice memos app on my phone or through soundtrap (for free), i have a microphone that i sometimes use but dont know the name of off the top of my head but i could tell you if youd like to know in the comments i used no auto tune and didn’t edit my voice in any way except to add a bit of reverb on the main melody and then a lot on the harmonies song lyrics - me piano - me ukulele - me singing - me harmony - me thumbnail - me lol i dont know why i even do credits it is like just me with help from my iphone’s camera, soundtrap, and the voice memos app ok i said id keep it short but its still pretty long. anyways, thanks for reading all of this and have an amazing february!!! also yes this song is like almost 6 minutes long im sorry :P
