Mess On Your Hands - 11/15/10

Scapey's Essay/Intro to the song:
Hello. Once upn a time I wrote this song. It's called "Mess On Your Hands," and I was focused on a particular layer of the song, and that layer of the song when I was making the song and writing the song was the ukulele part. Now, you're probably wondering how did I play the ukulele--I didn't! I don't play the ukulele! I had a session musician named my Dad play the ukulele part. We started with the ukulele part, he was playing, and I would say "Ok, do this. Ok, do this. Ok, ok, do this now," and he did, and we recorded the whole song just the ukulele part all the way through first.

Then came making all the other layers of the song, and we said "Ok, now we know what the ukulele songs like--what's next? How about the bass part?" and we did a bass part to fit with the ukulele part, and then we werre like "How about the drums?" and we did a drum part to fit with the ukulele part, and then we were like "OK, what about the voice part and the subject of the song? What are we going to do about that?" and I was like "I will tell you: I will sing a melody that fits, ok, with the ukulele part, right? Like I will listen to it, and I will go hum-mah-mah-huzzi-bah-huh-buh-ba-di-bah-ba-be-do-de-doh doh doh..." (that's not the melody, because I don't want to spoil it, but that's how you do it) and then after I wrote the melody then I was like "So what am I going to be singing about?" and then, again, fitting in with the layers, I said "What did the ukulele part FEEL like it was about, ok?" and then I wrote about that, and the answer is it's about kind of like being like a little freaked out like about being like uncomfortable and not fitting in a little bit, so that's what it's about.

BONUS VERSION: Here's a version of the song with Jordan singing the vocals. Not sure why he felt the need to record that, but there you are.
Mess On Your Hands (Jordan Version)