Chapter 8: Hot Air Balloon

‘Hot Air Balloon’ was conceived from a need to escape. It is a song that came to be from a mood in a period I was living. It’s quite ironic how just the week before we wrote the song, Stephen Voyce and I had a discussion about it all. 

Nothing about life is easy. Whether it is music, humanity or lack thereof , friendships, family, economy, politics; the truth is, there is always something that can pop up and disrupt your peace. As much as we try to control everything, some things are just out of our hands. This song was a response to it all. 

The lyrics are pretty straight forward and simply express a wanted escape from reality. “I want to fly in a hot air balloon,” is repeated twice in each chorus. The funny part is, I am scared of heights. I remember looking at Stephen and laughing as I said, “Wow! I don’t know why I wrote that!”. Perhaps it was my fear of heights responding to my rebellious mood. Fear is funny that way. The thing you fear most might end up being the very thing that liberates you; but I can’t be sure as I still have not been in a hot air balloon 🙂 

The cool thing is that it is an 80’s inspired Pop song. The music video takes you back to that era, from expression, to video editing and quality. It is a journey which leads you wherever you want it to 🙂

Stay tuned for ‘Hot Air Balloon’ on July 29th!