The Lincoln Lodge

The Tinder Date Song

I’m really happy with this new-ish song and I got great video of it from my recent sets at The Lincoln Lodge in Chicago (boy, those were fun shows!). And now that I’ve decided to post the song on YouTube I’m having that classic comedy songwriter’s dilemma: how do I title this video?

See, the fact that the song is about a Tinder date is the first big joke reveal at the end of the first verse, so calling it “The Tinder Date Song” gives it away. Thankfully that’s not the only joke in the song; my favorite joke is the start of the bridge, or middle eight*.

One of the reasons I really enjoy this song is that the music and lyrics work really well together. The music is upbeat and kind of new wave pop, or at least as close as I can approximate with one acoustic guitar. In my head I’m hearing something along the lines of Elvis Costello or Squeeze. On the lyrics side, I think they cover a lot of ground in 2 minutes, and it’s really fun to have the audience go along for the ride.

I hope you dig it! I’ll eventually work on a studio version where I’ll be able to explore those Costello/Squeeze inspirations to see if they work or if it goes in another direction. If you hear something style-wise in the song let me know! Sometimes a different set of ears helps find the essence of a tune 🙂

 

* song nerdery here: this song is in the classic AABA format (like Over the Rainbow and a million others) and the B section is sometimes called a bridge or “middle eight,” because it’s usually 8 bars in the middle of the song. In this song’s case it would be more like a middle 12 because it’s extended a bit, but it’s my favorite thing about this song because it changes the perspective of the story at the same time the music is departing from the main melody. Then we go back to the A section with a new perspective to close it out. There’s a lot going on in 2 minutes!