Lipstick in a Yearbook
Featured Songwriting Project:
“Lipstick in a Yearbook”
Song Beginnings
Time after time we all reflect on our high school days, dust off the old high school yearbooks and go back in time when we were teenagers. In February of 2021 during the Valentines week winter outbreak we were snowed in and felt inspired to begin writing the song idea for “Lipstick In A Yearbook.” Reading what my friends wrote, well wishes and all, I realized this is a universal theme. Thus began the song idea and I jotted down a potential song title in my songwriting journal, “Lipstick Kisses.”
Later on in November/December 2021 the song idea would later morph into “Lipstick In A Yearbook” with collaboration from high school friend and writer Brittany Bronte. The song begins in the first verse where he’s thinking back on the good times attending high school football on friday nights. The second verse he’s looking in the yearbook and seeing himself along with others in the high school marching band group photo then thinking back on a time when he had to attend summer school and giving his crush rides in his car.
The chorus is unique in the fact that the first parts in chorus 1 and 2 paint different music video like scenes that lead up to the hook that even with the awkwardness of puberty those were some of the best days that one would experience in their overall life span and remembering what a best friend wrote about them in their yearbook signed with a “kiss”, hence the title, “Lipstick In A Yearbook.” The bridge paints the music video scene of graduation night with a sense of accomplishment and wishing everyone only the best and they will miss each other, “signed with a kiss, lipstick in a yearbook.”
The outro of “Lipstick In A Yearbook” closes out the song with vocal harmony ad libs reminiscent of The Eagles along with wailing of a Major Label radio broadcast quality sounding Guitar solo.
