Jesse Paul Warren
A Designer*
Jesse Paul Warren
a designer*
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Corr
Spektrem Song
Producer + Songwriter
2012

After spending 9 months working on “In A Dream”, there was a sense within my team that I needed to produce and release music more quickly. There was a feeling that I spent too much time perfecting songs, and needed to "just put stuff out” more frequently.

Looking back, I understand why people felt this way. It's something a lot of people say. "The perfect is the enemy good..."

There's truth to that. But one of the hardest earned creative lessons for me is understanding the difference between not tweaking meaningless details out of fear of failure, and taking the cake out of the oven before it's done. You have to know what details need to be right to have any chance of success, and which ones are a waste of time to obsess over. A lot of this comes down to intuition built from experience.

Nonetheless, Corr is an example of a song I released before I’d gotten it right. I never nailed it. It’s a really subtle thing, getting the kick drum to gel perfectly with the bassline, so that when you hear it, you just have to move your body. So when I hear Corr, I hear unfulfilled potential. Because I was trying to cut back on production time, even if it cost on quality. I’ve since learned my lesson — even if many still preach the “quantity-over-quality” gospel in today’s feed-driven world.

UNRELEASED VOCAL VERSION

I did write a vocal version which was sung by the talented sister of a friend. She did an amazing job. Unfortunately, we never released it, just because I never I got the rest of the song right. But that vocal was great, and we did play it live a couple times.