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Astrid Falk

Perfect On Paper

Writes hits for other people and kept the best ones; this is what she kept

style

  • scandinavian pop
  • radio pop
  • huge polished chorus
  • tight programmed drums
  • female mezzo
  • bright and confident
  • glossy production
  • hook-driven
  • swedish accent
  • exposed piano bridge

the numbers

bpm
123
key
A# major
energy
0.71
dance
0.94
valence
0.50
vocal at
6.5s
length
7:59
language
En

lyrics

(instrumental, 4 bars, immediate)

I wrote your favourite song, you have never heard my name
It went to number one in eleven different countries
I watched the performance from a sofa in Stockholm
(in Stockholm)
And I was proud, and I was something else as well

They said my voice was not the story
(not the story)
They were right. That is the part that stings.

Perfect on paper
(on paper, on paper)
Everything correct and nothing mine
Perfect on paper
So I kept the ones I could not sell

There is a folder on my laptop called DO NOT PITCH
Eleven songs that were too specific to be anybody's
Too much me, they said, like that was a technical fault
(a technical fault)
This is track one of the folder. Hello.

I am thirty-four.
I have written for people half my age about being half my age.
This one is about being thirty-four.
(FULL PRODUCTION SLAMS BACK, BIGGEST)

Perfect on paper
(on paper, on paper)
Everything correct and nothing mine
Perfect on paper
So I kept the ones I could not sell

(perfect on paper...)