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 Track 1: Name: "Immortal" (introlude)Album: "Immortal"Recorded: November 2012 Writer/Composer: Stephanie Fierce Producer: Stephanie Fierce Length: 2:08 Genres: Pop, Dream-Pop, Instrumental Instruments: Guitar, drums and percussion Record Label: Hot Eye Records Song Description & Background: "Immortal (Intro-lude)" is a the first song by American artist Stephanie Fierce taken from her eight studio album "Immortal". The album is set to be released May 5th 2013, through the support of Hot Eye Records. The song was solely written and composed by Stephanie Fierce. The song also serves as the album's very first interlude, therefore being titled "Introlude", serving as some sort of introduction to the very elastically produced album. This is the first time that interludes have ever been included on any Stephanie Fierce album, showing a new creative direction in Stephanie Fierce's music that fans may enjoy. The song was composed around November 2012 and recorded inside Stephanie Fierce's tour bus trailer while she was on her "History Revealed World Tour". Stephanie Fierce explains why the song contained only instrumental and how the idea of including interludes developed: "I wanted to open up the record with an instrumental because I kind of wanted the fans to warm up to the album's sound before they could hear me sing. Very few of my albums contain instrumental pieces so this is not a common thing for my listeners, especially it being the opening track on the album. At first I wasn't sure how I was going to be able to do that because I had to keep a concept in mind, and I didn't want to make the album seem disoriented or out of place. As I developed the song, I started to write lyrics down but then decided last minute I didn't want lyrics for this song. So without me realizing I was creating an instrumental interlude, and I've never had interludes on any of my albums before. Being the open minded artists that I am, I decided to not shy away from that. I kept the album's title name in my mind when creating this record and it really came from a place of creativity and experimentation. There were times were I was tempted to write lyrics because the record was coming out pretty well, but I kept reminding myself that I wanted something different for my album and having interludes will offer my fans something new in terms of the track-listing of the album. What I also started to realize was that the song had a similar styling to one of my biggest songs in my career, "Dying In The Airwaves" where I for the first time made a continues guitar riff from scratch and evolved it throughout the recording process. At the same time I also feel like the record came from a place of happiness and positivity that I was experiencing after recording Insane, because that track had served as an outlet for me to relieve all anger and frustration I was experiencing at the time. Listening to the record once t was finished also allowed me to be very open minded on all of the other songs I was writing and recording, therefore bringing a new energy to the album that I didn't originally plan" Song Composition, Production & Lyrical Meaning:While the song does not contain any lyrical content aside from the soft "Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah", knowing that the title of the track is the same as the album's, and symbolically looking at the album's meaning, the song could simply refer to the idea of living forever, but the instrumental could really mean anything otherwise. Depending on what you're experiencing at the moment, the meaning could be whatever you make of it. The song could also be something that serves as introduction to something you've never ever experienced in your life or just an introduction to the second track or section of the album. The real purpose of the track however is to kind of put you in a trance of loop that goes on forever that eventually would lead you into the album, but ironically the instrumental is a short 2 minutes, which may leave the listener wanting more. For that reason Fierce considered making the track longer but eventually made a risky decision to keep it short and straight to point, that way the listener gets a glimpse of perfection. The song begins with raw distant chords that begin to progress as an atmospheric ambient sound that's very recognizable in the dream pop genre of music today merely follows along, giving you a cinematic sort of feel. This goes on for about 22 seconds before the song is then joined by halted tribal drums that produce a dramatic effect. Though simplistic, it leave the listener with an unique sound experience. The song also contain minimal bass additions for about 20 seconds as well right before it is joined by a tribal like drum. Around the 38 second mark the song catapults into a more groovy and jumpy song with drums that start hitting like a clap as the guitar grows more melodic and stronger. Stephanie Fierce noticed that the "discordant chords" in the song where similar to those in "Dying in the Airwaves", so she made it her more unique by adding the upbeat claps. As the song continues to build up with intense discordant chords in a repetitiveness sense, the song introduces some sort of vocalization. You will hear "Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah" throughout the rest of the song. Her vocals are heard as smooth, mellow and calm throughout its journey in the song. The purpose was to sing with emotion despite it sounding like she's holding back vocally, but you can hear her calm and relaxed presence for once, instead of being a vocal focused track. Once the song comes close to a finish you hear the tribal hit once for minimal effect and you also hear the melancholic guitar finishing up the song. "This being the first track and all, kind of the purpose of the song is to make you beg for more. The first section of the album is primarily based on the softer and more emotional tracks that shy away from the ballad but comes close to being one. Something about this particular song just feels endless and it feels like it could go on forever on a loop. It all began with my acoustic guitar. I typically don't play the guitar as often, because a lot of my time is stolen from me by practicing the rigorous choreography and vocals I had to practice for my tour. But that day I was bored on my tour bus and decided to just mess around and try to create something out of nothing. Eventually after translating the composition to the guitar that would go on to create the sound of the song, an excitement grew within me even further. Obviously like any song, I wanted the song to build up and have a good melody and I didn't care if it cared to the pop genre or not, I just wanted a good tune that would serve well. As I started to clap, I immediately in my head pictured a tribal drum hitting. I've always loved tribal drums, because they are a huge part of music and the sound is always empowering and have a cool dramatic effect. Once I noticed the track was going into the direction I wanted it to go, I decided to give the song a an airy atmospheric and relaxing sound that would continue throughout the whole song, kind of like what I did with every song on my fifth studio album. Even though I decided to cut out the lyrical part from the song, out of nowhere I started to hum out the lyrics I was writing. Next thing you know I was humming gibberish and surprisingly, I loved it enough to keep it in the song. After the song was practically finished, I decided to name it after the album and that's how the concept of the song came to be". Sounds Like:
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