(antiMusic) Welcome to Singled Out! where we ask artists to tell us the inside story of their latest single. Today Benjy from Benjy Davis Project tells us about "I Love You" from their brand new album "Dust". We now turn it over to Benjy for the story: "I Love You" took many different directions before its current arrangement. Michael (piano/vocals) wrote the intro and was messing around with it and it was so interesting and atmospheric, almost carnival, I had to try something. That became both of our first co-writing experiences. I was at what ended up being the end of a 7 year
relationship, the lyrics and idea started as more of my trying to put out a fire from an argument about marriage and commitment. I still love her, but on the bullheadedness front it was clash of the titans.
Anyways, we had this really out there bridge that just didn't sit well with David Z (producer), so he asked me to go a little easier on the ears, so I wrote that in the studio while we were recording it. Turned out well I think, sums it up pretty well. As far as the title, I never really heard of a love song called simply I Love You so I went for it.
Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself and learn more about the album - right here!
