laundry & taxes
NSFWLiner Notes
this is about me keeping track of my income as a sole proprietor, an artist and audio engineer and music production teacher, etc. ITS HARD TO DO! I have a bunch of tiny income streams that make taxes terribly annoying, but I'm always trying to improve every year in the way that I calculate and keep track of all of my business expenses and income and whatnot.
Leave tips in the comments. haha seriously though, if you do, thanks!
Musically, I wanted to play everything and try to do each thing in one take and just make a messy garage rock band style demo, which it is, but my bass is hiding in my closet and i wanna throw this online, so unfortunately its a bassless song as of now.
p.s. I havent played bar chords OR drums in a long ass time. it was fun but so rusty and my hand hurt after - hence the "holy shit" commentary at the end.
The title and the "laundry and taxes" line were completely inspired by the scene in Everything Everywhere All At Once when Fancy Waymond says, "In another universe, I would have loved just doing laundry and taxes with you."
Lyrics
i thought i was doing well rows and columns all filled out I thought I was keeping track And keeping up
I thought I was pretty good At adding up the categories I thought everything looked Like it should
[bm, c, Em, A, Bm, em, c] But here we are now Completely recalculating Finding all my past mistakes And now realizing We have to find another way To prevent all this work And everything will okay Moving forward
Sometimes I feel like We just do laundry and taxes But I don’t think I need more Excitement than that
Sometimes I feel proud Of how organized I am And now I know that all those times It was silly to think that
Because here we are now Completely recalculating Finding all my past mistakes And now realizing We have to find another way To prevent all this work And everything will okay Moving forward
(holy shit)
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now I know why everything sounds so good! I like the mix, the almost 3 layers intertwining! percussion, guitar and vox. such a performance ready song! very good.
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Your voice and style reminds me so much of Josie and the Pussycats! I love the vibe of this one. Glad you’re back on FAWM this year!
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Hahaha! Love it! Cracked up when you say "holy shit" at the end! Great and fun!
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Great song, Katie! I think I wanna do some Liz Phair inspired stuff with you cause you can nail that sound. This needs to be finished one day. April 15th release??? :)
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What a nice production. Tough topic to make nice music to. You do a great job and the vocals are spot on.
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Hooks as far as the ear can here. Great harmonies. Moving forward for sure.
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You've turned laundry and taxes into a delicious, candy-pop song. I never thought I'd ever say that sentence. It's just delicious and those harmonies are just - yes, yes yes!
(I made a Google sheet template with nifty formulas to help keep track of all the things - wish I could share it it's all Canadian-taxes oriented!)
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this is great. catchy melodies. really great vocals. i like the looseness and the lofi quality of the drums
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Haha. Yes. Feel this. Love the loose garage rock feel. Chorus really pops! Super catchy and sweet. 🧺🎸🎶
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Love the harmonies and the "messy" nature of it. Feels imperfect in the perfect way! Very catchy tune
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(holy shit) fo sho! Love it! On repeat and looking for the FAWM-artist tipping jar. That would be a great new feature!
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I like this a lot. Something universal found here in the everyday. nice harmonies, too.
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Love this. It has a cool Liz Phair feel about it. I like the one take approach. It gives the whole thing more character; especially the bit where you laugh. The choruses are really catchy and the harmonies work so well. You have a beautiful voice. Very well done!
Haha. Love the profanity at the end! 😂
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I like the way the rhythm sloshing around feels like that anxiety of doing taxes when it’s not going well. And how there is this unquenchable delight in life and maybe love that peaks out between the horrors.