| I one day heard about pura vida and how it is used in Costa Rica for saying both hello and goodbye which gave me the idea for this song. I have always liked to do recordings with some latin influences so it was again a fun recording.
Working with cowrites also learned me that whenever I want to do a lyric myself I better keep it simple and not try to be clever with the language because you never know how it translates to native speakers. So that’s why this song like a couple of other english language songs I did myself have this simple english. It might be an advice for all non-native english lyricwriters: just keep it safe and simple, or find a cowrite and at least have it checked. That said: the pronunciation of english has always been a bit of a problem and has always given me away as a non-native singer. Sometimes the accent sounds fine and even interesting, other times it simply doesnt work, perhaps even not with a demo. |
When you go down there
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