Music Story: Dafty (repost)
3 Feb 2008 The Story Behind Dafty Right, well I'll be honest and give everyone a "long story" alert right away. Haven't been writing much lately so thought I'd give the background on another of our songs. I guess the first thing to explain about our song Dafty is why it is even titled that. When we began this song, well over two years ago now, it was a strange little number with no live drums, no chord changes, just a programmed electronic beat, a bass synth line and Isabelle singing "Dance - you have got to dance" over and over. Our idea was just to try and write a simple little dance song, no pretense at pop music appeal, just a track to put on and dance to. It was alright and few of our friends heard it and thought it had potential. Of course when you're writing songs with no lyrical direction you need to come up with working titles, and considering how the keyboards reminded me of Daft Punk I just put down Dafty...