Smith William Perspective on So Fine
All of my songs start on my acoustic guitar. I usually sit and play in the kitchen play while my wife cooks dinner. I'll noodle around until something catches me. Not sure how to explain it, but I just know it's a song. If I keep playing it And sitting with it, a scene will start playing out in my head. As in, movie scene. When that happens, the song is about that scene 100% of the time. The rest of the time writing the song I'm really trying to decide what it's about. Once I can decode that, the lyrics sort of write themself. Barry Gibb (Bee Gees) said that he thinks that songs aren't written, but rather received. For me, that's how it feel too. Other times I'll get a line that comes into my head and it often isn't something I would normally say and doesn't make much sense. I have leaned to trust the process and have always found that the line makes sense once the rest of the song is decoded. That's how it works for me.
I have been making up songs in one form or another my whole life. I have accepted that it's just who I am and how I process the world
This song is about being obsessed with someone because they trip you're trigger like no one else. It's about the tension of waiting for this person to call and the elation when they do. It's about sexual tension. It's about wanting and waiting.
John Mayer literally changed the way I play guitar, how I thought about songs in general and what I thought was possible. I find him very inspiring. Stevie Ray Vaughn is my favorite guitar and Jimi Hendrix is the one that got me to start playing. My music doesn't sound like any of them and I'm glad. My goal is never to try and sound like anything other than myself. Whatever and whoever that is.
I wanted to convey wanting someone so badly and the tension of waiting for them to call or come over. I wanted people to think of themself in the scene of the song and to think about someone that made them feel that way. It's a fucking great feeling.
I think this song fits into multiple rock genres like indie, alternative and also singer/songwriter. I consider then American rock songs but to my knowledge I'm the only one that uses that as a genre.
Liking your own music is a great way to measure one's success IMO
