Hello Ancient Lighters,
For the past months we’ve been listening to a lot of songs, trying to come with a good “Soundtrack” list. We have good choices so far but haven’t finished the list. It’s been hard trying to narrow our almost 30 songs to only 10.
There are some points we have that we’re using as guidelines when listening songs such as:
- Meaning of the lyrics.
- Rhythm of music.
- Author(s)
- Artist
- Record Label
- Year
It’s important for us to have powerful music. We’re looking for songs that preferably talk about loving yourself, empowering teens, love without judgment, being strong, anti-bullying, etc. Hence why the lyrics are so important.
So, why are we looking into Record Labels and such? Simply, because we need that information to acquire (or try to) the rights to use the song and since in our “perfect” list we have some big names like Christina Aguilera, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Demi Lovato to name a few, we need to have everything prepared before approaching the record label.
Once we get answers from their Record Label, we approach the publicist, the writers, artist and other person who might get rights to the song. Sometimes, you get lucky and the record label has all the final power to say yes or no to your request. Sometimes, you need to spend, hours, days and weeks over the phone and email, before you can get to the right person. And sometimes….well, you don’t even hear back from them.
But don’t worry! We’re also looking outside and into the indie scene. We have secured a song from the talented and always beautiful Tonye Aganaba, we’re in talks with the amazing and talented Natalye Vivian (from Whiskey Jane) to record an original song for us and we’re approaching soon Jen Miller, Kyla Cambell and Monika kon K.
You might have noticed there, that so far, we only mentioned girls…. though it would be amazing to have a 100% female soundtrack, we have some boys there we want to approach for collaboration like: Six Figgaz, Scatterheart and Macklemore,
As well, there are a few Latin names we would like to approach some indie some well known like Ivan Guevara, Ricky Martin. Marcelo Treviño, Gloria Trevi and Jessie & Joy.
So you can see, we have a big and crazy road ahead of us trying to get our soundtrack list ready. And while we still decide if they Soundtrack will be as well on sale or if it just going to be strictly for movie purposes, we’ll keep enjoying really cool music from such amazing singers!
Until Monday AL’ers!
Love!
AL Team
Ancient Lights 