Today’s Behind The Song Sunday is “Behind Closed Doors” from my album ‘What Are You Waiting For?”.

“Behind Closed Doors” was written back in 2009 and is based on personal experiences. Growing up, people that didn’t get the chance to actually know me would jump to conclusions about me. They’d see my picture and automatically think “She’s a slut” (True Story and yet none of my pictures have ever been slutty), or else they’d just assume that I’m a strong person because I didn’t start crying when I was teased, instead I laughed it off. It sucked, but I grew a lot from experiences like that. Still not many people get to know the real me because I always keep my guard up, that damned wall to protect myself so I don’t get hurt… Although to the few that I have let in, I’d do anything for them.  So, this song is a little insider (but no too much) of me personally.

When I wrote this song, I originally had it start with just my guitar rift then the band coming in after. Last second before recording the track for the album, I decided that I wanted the bass to start the song and then have the electric come in.  My bass player/producer Adam was not really thrilled about this, because he wasn’t fond of starting the song off by himself on bass. In the end, I won (lol) and I’m glad we decided to keep it with the bass starting the song off. It just seems have a better flow.

You can listen to the song here:

https://jamierumley.bandcamp.com/track/behind-closed-doors

Enjoy and have a lovely rest of your weekend!

Jamie