Jalisa Denice On the Making Of "Get To Work"
What was the creative process like for this particular "Get To Work?"
I was going through catalogues of music by different producers when I came across Corey Kane, he had this crazy funky beat and I fell in love with it, My first thought was how I do justice to a beat like this and the concept for work popped into my head, I thought it would bring out the best in a motivational song. So with that in mind, I wrote the song and took it to a recording studio in London. I then tried it out on a live audience at a vocal networking event and it was well received, which was a relief moment for me because I knew the sound was different, So I was just glad it was different in a good way! After that, I pressed on to the release.
Were there any challenges or breakthrough moments during the songwriting process for "Get To Work?"
The sound was a challenge itself, because I’d never worked with a beat like it before, I’m Pop R&B but I’d never touched funk. So when I took it to the studio and played it to the engineer that I always work with, he heard it and his first response was this didn’t sound like a Jalisa Denice song, because it didn’t fit what I usually do. So, I went in the booth and sang the first verse and immediately he was like “aaah now this song sounds like you.”
So we went through the song recording as we went I made some last-minute rewrites on some of the lyrics more fitting to the music but it was during that recording that I wrote the final version.
In your own words, how would you describe the music that you typically create?
I make POP/R&B that is full of raw feelings and go-getting energy. In all my works my aim is to take the listener on a ride through the ups and downs of life with my own flair to it, that pushes the bounds musically and lyrically. I’m a dare-to-try kind of artist.
Where do you find inspiration for your songs or musical ideas?
Life is my greatest inspiration, there’s a story or an opinion to be made everywhere you look. So when I hear music, first I think how it makes me feel, then I find a topic worth singing about, and sometimes it’s my own life and others it's just me observing something, but ground zero all depends on how the music makes me feel.