![]() He said he’d get it done…he needed a couple of days. But Tony is always BUSY! And he’s on the other coast. I was certain my long time pal Tony Bruno (Rihanna/Enrique) could crush it. “Remember,” I reminded myself, “only ask people you love (and who love you back) to help you with this project.” Go where the love is. It sounded more well, 21st century.Īs for guitar tracks…trust me…I wasn’t qualified. I hyperventilated as we tried removing some. There simply aren’t as many changes in modern pop music. In re-visiting the song, Eve and I considered how many chords there were. I wasn’t sure how the songwriter version might measure up with divinyls and The Pretenders raunchy and raw (respective) efforts…but I was excited to find out how it would reveal itself. To have a legend who writes mega-hits of her own record YOUR song, is something that doesn't happen for a songwriter every day.if ever.įast forward to 20 years later.I was in the studio with producer Eve Nelson re-imagining a version of “Human” for my very belated debut album. She said it sounded more like The Pretenders than the stuff she was writing at the time. A few years later Chrissie Hynde heard it and recorded it with The Pretenders. We wrote a song called “Human.” divinyls recorded and released “Human” in 1996. The next week I put those words (and that pain) to use on a songwriting blonde date (typo -but he was blonde) with Mark McEntee of the Australian band divinyls. I scribbled some words on a napkin in a ladies room after a friend said something that absolutely shattered me.
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