What if an average Joe had a song idea and it’s amazing?

[Heyandheytoday]

I had a dream (took a lunch break nap), and in the dream a song was playing.

Now, I will remembered half of the lyrics weirdly. And wrote them in my notes app. I’ve then added to it and it really flows!

It is no Adele but the song I’ve written is so poppy and would sound amazing with someone like Ariana Grande singing it.

What if it’s a hit? How would an average joe like me with zero music knowledge put it under her nose?

It has great lyrics but also have the tune/how those lyrics should be sung. How do I communicate that when I can’t write music? Like the notes etc

Please nobody laugh. Just seems to really flows!

No music experience, just a mum of 2 who is probably bored and tired to have even dreamt it

I can't believe it's Christmas for the turkey isn't cooked
The kids have broke their presents, well they had when I last looked

MIL is slumbering in a heap beneath the tree
Really need to tell her that the Baileys isn't free

He doesn't really need a new Christmas song, he's said that he just sits back and in January when everyone else are getting bills he gets his royalty cheque that keeps him going all year.

I just can't believe this OP
Her lyrics are so bad
I just can't believe this OP
It sounds worse than an ad

I just can't believe this OP
She thinks this is a song
I just can't believe this OP
How could she be so wrong?

Guess who's coming round the bend.. it's Santa and his reindeer friends.

As ever, first post ....

Find a local band or singer and see if they are interested in a collaboration? You have to start small with these things.

I’m starting to wonder if OP is one of those AI bots I’ve been hearing about - sent in to mine decent Christmas song lyrics

I feel I have entered an alternative dimension
With my Christmas tree given a 10 foot extension

Pitch for this year's John Lewis Christmas ad -

It starts with THIS VERY THREAD - @Heyandheytoday posting her lyrics with naive excitement, only to be faced with cynical replies from Grinchy naysayers. She is sad, in her lonely kitchen.
Cut to a John Lewis marketing person reading the thread. He phones a colleague, saying "Commission this song!."
Her sad kitchen dissolves into a glamourous recording studio where Adele sings the song while Heyandheytoday watches, shiney-eyed .
Cut to various scenes from across the nation of people buying ten-foot Christmas trees while joyfully singing along with Adele. Then they all coalesce into a bunch of carol singers at Heyandhey's front door. She opens it delightedly just as they are singing the final line Oh, oh, oh, it's Christmas

Exactly what I was thinking.

WRONG WAY….DOWN A ONE WAY STRREEAAAT

That sounds more like an Asda Christmas ad. JL ads have some un-Christmassy song turned into a drippy ballad sung with the usual Lily Allen-esque voice

Well this and all the comments have certainly made me laugh. All the best OP and if it sells you will be so happy.

Don't think I have ever read a thread that has made me laugh out loud so much. Especially the John Lewis fantasy scenario. And the MIL / Baileys one.

As the first song by Average Joe, you could personalise the lyrics a bit:

I just can’t believe it’s Christmas, my name is Average Joe
I just can’t believe it’s Christmas, Santa’s come ho ho ho
I just can’t believe it’s Christmas, His sleigh is just docking
I just can’t believe it’s Christmas, He’s here to fill my stocking!
Oh oh oh… a merry Christmas!

I just can’t believe it’s Christmas, I hope he’s brought me beer.
i just can’t believe it’s Christmas, to fill me with Christmas cheer!
I just can’t believe it’s Christmas, and a dress (sexy not tarty)
i just can’t believe it’s Christmas, then Average Joe will party!
Oh oh oh… merry Christmas!

I just can’t believe it’s Christmas, later I’ll be hungover
I just can’t believe it’s Christmas, with Rudolph, Dasher & Donner
i just can’t believe it’s Christmas, and all the other reindeer
I just can’t believe it’s Christmas, no sign of Santa I fear!
Oh oh oh… a merry Christmas!

I just can’t believe it’s Christmas, and it’s not butter too
I just can’t believe it’s Christmas, let’s hope they don’t sue
I just can’t believe it’s Christmas, or Average Joe is in shit
I just can’t believe it’s Christmas, despite a rocking Christmas hit!
Oh oh oh… a merry Christmas!

😆 🤣 I love it 😀 😍 ♥️ x

Professional musician here! If you have a melody too, record it on your phone, just to remember it, then if you have any musical friends, ask them to learn it and tell you what the chords are. You want to build up to recording it (even if you have a session band to record it for you) then once you have a good mix, send it to publishers x

I’m looking forward to the inevitable mashup of

I just can’t believe it’s Christmas x I can’t believe it’s not butter

Lovely buttery -not really buttery - sprouts at Christmas.

I think a lot of people on MN would buy it if the lines about MIL being drunk were in it as that has got to be true at Christmas for many people. I want it to be a best seller and then we can have a good laugh when we hear it on the radio.

Rudolph the red-nosed elf.

Nah, it would have to be about how terribly sad she was that the bloke's with somebody else and not rummaging in her loft for the spare set of lights.

I haven't read all the comments, but for the OP, my friend used to write songs, she had to make up demo tapes and send them to independent recording companies, she was talented and sang her own songs, even had a gig with Right Said Fred once and was with the company that the Neighbours theme tune writers were with/owned, as well as going to parties with Stock, Aitken and Waterman, however, my friend still works in the bank that she's worked in since leaving school, she never did get her big break.

I'm surprised LadBaby haven't released something like that. I can't believe it's Christmas/not butter/sausage rolls

And she needs to point out that despite being middle aged they are still kids 🤣

Oh god yea, a Christmas song by Adele would be like an inferior reworking of Lonely This Christmas by Mud.