The Funniest Songwriting Collaboration Ever

Last year, as a freshman, I took a class called 'Culture and Society in the West" with a Studio Composition Professor named Jim McElwaine. Jim turned "Culture and Society in the West" into a class that should have been called "My Favorite Cultures and Societies throughout History." He really likes China (and having traveled there this past summer I am quite a fan myself).
We learned many things in Jim's class. We discussed the Analects of Confucius and translated Chinese poetry from word for word english translations into idiomatic english. We discussed disco frequently. We learned all about how Jim is rumored to have written the theme songs to The Muppet Babies and Fraggle Rock. I suppose we learned a little bit about western culture too...
For our Final, Jim decided we should all do our own creative projects based on what we learned in class. So I got together with two of my classmates, Ben Goldstein, and, Will Sweeney-Samuelson to write a song. Ben and Will had previously been writing a song about their Wii system, and we decided to use the chord progression for our song. Because it had been a love song about a Wii, we decided to write a love song for Jim. How sweet. We used the chinese poem translations to get going on the lyrics... and then went on to make many references to Jim and his class lectures.
We spent about 3 hours writing the song over the course of 2 days and booked out 1 evening (a total of 6 hours) in the studio. After we were done laying down tracks, Ben stayed up until 6 am mixing the tracks so they would be done for class the next day.
My father often requests that I play this song during car rides. He laughs every time we get to the "I love you more than squirrel" line in the bridge. Enjoy!!!

Ben Goldstein: Drums, Engineering, Production
Will Sweeney-Samuelson: Vox, Guitar
Madeleine McMillan: Vox, Piano

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