Holiday Love Songs with Melanie Peterson

Saskatoon-born, Toronto-based singer-songwriter Melanie Peterson joined us again, this time with her original holiday-themed love songs. Melanie has been deemed “Mary Poppins with a broken heart” by the BBC and a “superb songwriter” by Joe Warmington of the Toronto Sun. She was last on our show in 2015.

We talked about:

Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way
Producer Chris Birkett
Using a pre-chorus to introduce tension
What do we mean when we say “hooky”?
Writing from the heart vs. the head
Doing “pages” first thing in the morning
Having a Christmas song hit
hooktheory.com
How the kids are releasing on vinyl
How much repetition is enough? (Tim Stead and the Scenic Sound say you can never have enough)