Chords for Linda Perry Bio 3 of 4
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[E] [D] Songwriter [E] and producer Linda Perry [Dbm] steps into the media spotlight on the rarest of occasions.
[E] These days she's most comfortable making music behind the scenes.
You gotta do that open hat thing so it's like going
A far cry from her rock and roll beginnings.
Her hit songs were [Dm] fueled by the dark emotions of her childhood.
[F] She had survived suicide attempts, drugs, [Bb] and the rejection she felt when she came out as a lesbian.
[C] [Gm] But the pop star's life felt [C] empty to Linda.
[Gm] She had to make a change.
Writing a hit [F] record, she turned around and begged out of her recording contract.
Linda was blown away by her label's reaction.
[G] They kept me and let the band go.
It wasn't that there were other writers and people who weren't [Fm] important,
but Linda [D] was the front man or [G] front woman.
I felt like I just betrayed the band because I was saying let me [F] go.
I need to go find myself.
These guys are great.
Racked with guilt [Gm] but thrilled to be solo, Linda laid out her new vision.
I had a record in mind.
[F] I described it to the company.
It was dark.
It was [G] very vague.
It was me [F] using my lower register.
Really [G] moody.
Linda partnered up with celebrated producer Bill Bettrell to work on [Gm] the album she [F] would later call In Flight.
[Bbm] [Eb] It was a really, really great experience.
[Gb] He taught me everything I know.
I [Bbm] asked so many questions about engineering [Db] and recording.
[E] Finally, he just grabbed me, literally grabbed me on my shoulders, [Gbm] put me in front [Gb] of the console and said,
just turn the knobs until it sounds good to you.
[Dbm]
Working with the new [Ab] producer would [Ebm] ultimately transform Linda's career,
but not [A] because the album was a hit.
The response to In Flight was, [C]
it was a snoozer.
[Gbm] I think it sold maybe 18,000 copies.
I came from a band that sold 7 million records.
She put so much of herself into it and she wanted people to be able to hear it.
I think she was incredibly [G] disappointed.
Forced to reevaluate, Linda Perry moved to Los Angeles, hoping once again for a fresh start.
I didn't know what I wanted to do anymore.
I tried to write songs from not my [Dm] perspective [G] and it wasn't working.
I tried to write songs from a deep place and it wasn't working.
Just nothing was working.
And while Linda explored her professional options,
[D] she freely spent the money [G] she'd made with four non-blondes.
All I know is this money that I've made from this band [Gm] is tainted.
That success, it did not deserve.
I didn't work hard enough for it.
It was just way [F] too easy.
So it was like I was just trying to get rid of it.
But [Gm] with no cash coming in, Linda soon got some bad news from her accountant.
The last 10 [Eb] grand I think I had, I gave it to my mom.
I called my [D] accountant and said, give the money to my mom.
[Gm] And she was like, that's going to put you under [C] 100 bucks.
I'm like, just do it.
[Gm] Linda Perry may have been broke, but she wasn't worried.
[C] I know what it's like [Gm] to be [F] poor and not have anything.
[Gm] So that was never an [Eb] issue.
I'm not afraid of that.
[D] Musically, I always have the bathroom to sit in there by myself and play
[G] and hear it ring through the acoustics.
It was an out of the blue call that would put Linda back in the game.
I get this really random call from this girl [N] and she says,
I want to meet with you.
My name's Pink.
Linda didn't know who Pink was at the time.
I was really familiar with her and I thought,
you've got to play her, get the party started.
Play her, get the party started.
Which she had just written.
The upbeat pop song was unlike anything the public might have expected
from the brooding songwriter-producer.
Pink loved the song and collaborated with Perry on seven additional tracks
for her album, Misunderstood,
which not only received two Grammy nominations,
but made Pink the top-selling female artist in 2002.
I knew it was going to be big.
I knew people were going to be a little surprised by who was behind this big record.
The industry responded [E] [C] pretty, almost immediately.
As soon as the song was on the radio, get the party [E] started,
my phone started ringing.
Now back on top, Linda began [C] searching out other young stars to work with.
Remarkably, [Em] she saw in Christina Aguilera something of a creative soulmate.
Everybody knows [C] Christina Aguilera could sing.
But what people don't know is that you actually can [E] feel what you're singing.
And I said, and that's [Gm] what I'm for.
And one of the most unlikely but [F] successful pop-musical relationships was [Em] born.
Christina took Linda's ballad, Beautiful, to the [C] top of the charts
and received a Grammy award for her performance,
[E] Linda's being [Em] one of the most requested [F] music producers [D] ever since.
[N] Coming up
There's a lot of technicality to it in the studio, in the engineering,
and Linda mastered the studio.
When Women on Top returns.
[E] These days she's most comfortable making music behind the scenes.
You gotta do that open hat thing so it's like going
A far cry from her rock and roll beginnings.
Her hit songs were [Dm] fueled by the dark emotions of her childhood.
[F] She had survived suicide attempts, drugs, [Bb] and the rejection she felt when she came out as a lesbian.
[C] [Gm] But the pop star's life felt [C] empty to Linda.
[Gm] She had to make a change.
Writing a hit [F] record, she turned around and begged out of her recording contract.
Linda was blown away by her label's reaction.
[G] They kept me and let the band go.
It wasn't that there were other writers and people who weren't [Fm] important,
but Linda [D] was the front man or [G] front woman.
I felt like I just betrayed the band because I was saying let me [F] go.
I need to go find myself.
These guys are great.
Racked with guilt [Gm] but thrilled to be solo, Linda laid out her new vision.
I had a record in mind.
[F] I described it to the company.
It was dark.
It was [G] very vague.
It was me [F] using my lower register.
Really [G] moody.
Linda partnered up with celebrated producer Bill Bettrell to work on [Gm] the album she [F] would later call In Flight.
[Bbm] [Eb] It was a really, really great experience.
[Gb] He taught me everything I know.
I [Bbm] asked so many questions about engineering [Db] and recording.
[E] Finally, he just grabbed me, literally grabbed me on my shoulders, [Gbm] put me in front [Gb] of the console and said,
just turn the knobs until it sounds good to you.
[Dbm]
Working with the new [Ab] producer would [Ebm] ultimately transform Linda's career,
but not [A] because the album was a hit.
The response to In Flight was, [C]
it was a snoozer.
[Gbm] I think it sold maybe 18,000 copies.
I came from a band that sold 7 million records.
She put so much of herself into it and she wanted people to be able to hear it.
I think she was incredibly [G] disappointed.
Forced to reevaluate, Linda Perry moved to Los Angeles, hoping once again for a fresh start.
I didn't know what I wanted to do anymore.
I tried to write songs from not my [Dm] perspective [G] and it wasn't working.
I tried to write songs from a deep place and it wasn't working.
Just nothing was working.
And while Linda explored her professional options,
[D] she freely spent the money [G] she'd made with four non-blondes.
All I know is this money that I've made from this band [Gm] is tainted.
That success, it did not deserve.
I didn't work hard enough for it.
It was just way [F] too easy.
So it was like I was just trying to get rid of it.
But [Gm] with no cash coming in, Linda soon got some bad news from her accountant.
The last 10 [Eb] grand I think I had, I gave it to my mom.
I called my [D] accountant and said, give the money to my mom.
[Gm] And she was like, that's going to put you under [C] 100 bucks.
I'm like, just do it.
[Gm] Linda Perry may have been broke, but she wasn't worried.
[C] I know what it's like [Gm] to be [F] poor and not have anything.
[Gm] So that was never an [Eb] issue.
I'm not afraid of that.
[D] Musically, I always have the bathroom to sit in there by myself and play
[G] and hear it ring through the acoustics.
It was an out of the blue call that would put Linda back in the game.
I get this really random call from this girl [N] and she says,
I want to meet with you.
My name's Pink.
Linda didn't know who Pink was at the time.
I was really familiar with her and I thought,
you've got to play her, get the party started.
Play her, get the party started.
Which she had just written.
The upbeat pop song was unlike anything the public might have expected
from the brooding songwriter-producer.
Pink loved the song and collaborated with Perry on seven additional tracks
for her album, Misunderstood,
which not only received two Grammy nominations,
but made Pink the top-selling female artist in 2002.
I knew it was going to be big.
I knew people were going to be a little surprised by who was behind this big record.
The industry responded [E] [C] pretty, almost immediately.
As soon as the song was on the radio, get the party [E] started,
my phone started ringing.
Now back on top, Linda began [C] searching out other young stars to work with.
Remarkably, [Em] she saw in Christina Aguilera something of a creative soulmate.
Everybody knows [C] Christina Aguilera could sing.
But what people don't know is that you actually can [E] feel what you're singing.
And I said, and that's [Gm] what I'm for.
And one of the most unlikely but [F] successful pop-musical relationships was [Em] born.
Christina took Linda's ballad, Beautiful, to the [C] top of the charts
and received a Grammy award for her performance,
[E] Linda's being [Em] one of the most requested [F] music producers [D] ever since.
[N] Coming up
There's a lot of technicality to it in the studio, in the engineering,
and Linda mastered the studio.
When Women on Top returns.
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[E] [D] Songwriter [E] and producer Linda Perry [Dbm] steps into the media spotlight on the rarest of occasions.
[E] These days she's most comfortable making music behind the scenes.
You gotta do that open hat thing so it's like going_ _
A far cry from her rock and roll beginnings.
Her hit songs were [Dm] fueled by the dark emotions of her childhood.
[F] She had survived suicide attempts, drugs, [Bb] and the rejection she felt when she came out as a lesbian.
[C] _ _ [Gm] But the pop star's life felt [C] empty to Linda.
[Gm] She had to make a change.
Writing a hit [F] record, she turned around and begged out of her recording contract.
Linda was blown away by her label's reaction.
[G] They kept me and let the band go.
It wasn't that there were other writers and people who weren't [Fm] important,
but Linda [D] was the front man or [G] front woman.
I felt like I just betrayed the band because I was saying let me [F] go.
I need to go find myself.
These guys are great.
Racked with guilt [Gm] but thrilled to be solo, Linda laid out her new vision.
I had a record in mind.
[F] I described it to the company.
It was dark.
It was [G] very vague.
_ It was _ me [F] using my lower register.
_ _ Really [G] moody.
Linda partnered up with celebrated producer Bill Bettrell to work on [Gm] the album she [F] would later call In Flight.
[Bbm] [Eb] It was a really, really great experience.
[Gb] He taught me everything I know.
I [Bbm] asked so many questions about engineering [Db] and recording.
[E] Finally, he just grabbed me, literally grabbed me on my shoulders, [Gbm] put me in front [Gb] of the console and said,
just turn the knobs until it sounds good to you.
[Dbm]
Working with the new [Ab] producer would [Ebm] ultimately transform Linda's career,
but not [A] because the album was a hit.
The response to In Flight was, _ _ [C] _ _
it was a snoozer.
[Gbm] I think it sold maybe 18,000 copies.
I came from a band that sold 7 million records.
She put so much of herself into it and she wanted people to be able to hear it.
I think she was incredibly [G] disappointed.
Forced to reevaluate, Linda Perry moved to Los Angeles, hoping once again for a fresh start.
I didn't know what I wanted to do anymore.
I tried to write songs from not my [Dm] perspective _ [G] and it wasn't working.
I tried to write songs from a deep place and it wasn't working.
Just nothing was working.
And while Linda explored her professional options,
[D] she freely spent the money [G] she'd made with four non-blondes.
All I know is this money that I've made from this band [Gm] is tainted.
That success, it did not deserve.
I didn't work hard enough for it.
It was just way [F] too easy.
So it was like I was just trying to get rid of it.
But [Gm] with no cash coming in, Linda soon got some bad news from her accountant.
The last 10 [Eb] grand I think I had, I gave it to my mom.
I called my [D] accountant and said, give the money to my mom.
[Gm] And she was like, that's going to put you under [C] 100 bucks.
I'm like, just do it.
[Gm] Linda Perry may have been broke, but she wasn't worried.
[C] I know what it's like [Gm] to be [F] poor and not have anything.
[Gm] So that was never an [Eb] issue.
I'm not afraid of that.
_ [D] Musically, I always have the bathroom to sit in there by myself and play
[G] and hear it ring through the acoustics.
It was an out of the blue call that would put Linda back in the game.
I get this really random call from this girl [N] and she says,
I want to meet with you.
My name's Pink.
Linda didn't know who Pink was at the time.
I was really familiar with her and I thought,
you've got to play her, get the party started.
Play her, get the party started.
Which she had just written.
The upbeat pop song was unlike anything the public might have expected
from the brooding songwriter-producer.
_ Pink loved the song and collaborated with Perry on seven additional tracks
for her album, Misunderstood,
which not only received two Grammy nominations,
but made Pink the top-selling female artist in 2002.
I knew it was going to be big.
I knew people were going to be a little surprised by who was behind this big record.
The industry responded [E] _ [C] pretty, almost immediately.
As soon as the song was on the radio, get the party [E] started,
my phone started ringing.
Now back on top, Linda began [C] searching out other young stars to work with.
Remarkably, [Em] she saw in Christina Aguilera something of a creative soulmate.
Everybody knows [C] Christina Aguilera could sing.
But what people don't know is that you actually can [E] feel what you're singing.
And I said, and that's [Gm] what I'm for.
And one of the most unlikely but [F] successful pop-musical relationships was [Em] born.
_ Christina took Linda's ballad, Beautiful, to the [C] top of the charts
and received a Grammy award for her performance,
[E] Linda's being [Em] one of the most requested [F] music producers [D] ever since.
[N] Coming up_
There's a lot of technicality to it in the studio, in the engineering,
and Linda mastered the studio.
When Women on Top returns. _ _ _
[E] These days she's most comfortable making music behind the scenes.
You gotta do that open hat thing so it's like going_ _
A far cry from her rock and roll beginnings.
Her hit songs were [Dm] fueled by the dark emotions of her childhood.
[F] She had survived suicide attempts, drugs, [Bb] and the rejection she felt when she came out as a lesbian.
[C] _ _ [Gm] But the pop star's life felt [C] empty to Linda.
[Gm] She had to make a change.
Writing a hit [F] record, she turned around and begged out of her recording contract.
Linda was blown away by her label's reaction.
[G] They kept me and let the band go.
It wasn't that there were other writers and people who weren't [Fm] important,
but Linda [D] was the front man or [G] front woman.
I felt like I just betrayed the band because I was saying let me [F] go.
I need to go find myself.
These guys are great.
Racked with guilt [Gm] but thrilled to be solo, Linda laid out her new vision.
I had a record in mind.
[F] I described it to the company.
It was dark.
It was [G] very vague.
_ It was _ me [F] using my lower register.
_ _ Really [G] moody.
Linda partnered up with celebrated producer Bill Bettrell to work on [Gm] the album she [F] would later call In Flight.
[Bbm] [Eb] It was a really, really great experience.
[Gb] He taught me everything I know.
I [Bbm] asked so many questions about engineering [Db] and recording.
[E] Finally, he just grabbed me, literally grabbed me on my shoulders, [Gbm] put me in front [Gb] of the console and said,
just turn the knobs until it sounds good to you.
[Dbm]
Working with the new [Ab] producer would [Ebm] ultimately transform Linda's career,
but not [A] because the album was a hit.
The response to In Flight was, _ _ [C] _ _
it was a snoozer.
[Gbm] I think it sold maybe 18,000 copies.
I came from a band that sold 7 million records.
She put so much of herself into it and she wanted people to be able to hear it.
I think she was incredibly [G] disappointed.
Forced to reevaluate, Linda Perry moved to Los Angeles, hoping once again for a fresh start.
I didn't know what I wanted to do anymore.
I tried to write songs from not my [Dm] perspective _ [G] and it wasn't working.
I tried to write songs from a deep place and it wasn't working.
Just nothing was working.
And while Linda explored her professional options,
[D] she freely spent the money [G] she'd made with four non-blondes.
All I know is this money that I've made from this band [Gm] is tainted.
That success, it did not deserve.
I didn't work hard enough for it.
It was just way [F] too easy.
So it was like I was just trying to get rid of it.
But [Gm] with no cash coming in, Linda soon got some bad news from her accountant.
The last 10 [Eb] grand I think I had, I gave it to my mom.
I called my [D] accountant and said, give the money to my mom.
[Gm] And she was like, that's going to put you under [C] 100 bucks.
I'm like, just do it.
[Gm] Linda Perry may have been broke, but she wasn't worried.
[C] I know what it's like [Gm] to be [F] poor and not have anything.
[Gm] So that was never an [Eb] issue.
I'm not afraid of that.
_ [D] Musically, I always have the bathroom to sit in there by myself and play
[G] and hear it ring through the acoustics.
It was an out of the blue call that would put Linda back in the game.
I get this really random call from this girl [N] and she says,
I want to meet with you.
My name's Pink.
Linda didn't know who Pink was at the time.
I was really familiar with her and I thought,
you've got to play her, get the party started.
Play her, get the party started.
Which she had just written.
The upbeat pop song was unlike anything the public might have expected
from the brooding songwriter-producer.
_ Pink loved the song and collaborated with Perry on seven additional tracks
for her album, Misunderstood,
which not only received two Grammy nominations,
but made Pink the top-selling female artist in 2002.
I knew it was going to be big.
I knew people were going to be a little surprised by who was behind this big record.
The industry responded [E] _ [C] pretty, almost immediately.
As soon as the song was on the radio, get the party [E] started,
my phone started ringing.
Now back on top, Linda began [C] searching out other young stars to work with.
Remarkably, [Em] she saw in Christina Aguilera something of a creative soulmate.
Everybody knows [C] Christina Aguilera could sing.
But what people don't know is that you actually can [E] feel what you're singing.
And I said, and that's [Gm] what I'm for.
And one of the most unlikely but [F] successful pop-musical relationships was [Em] born.
_ Christina took Linda's ballad, Beautiful, to the [C] top of the charts
and received a Grammy award for her performance,
[E] Linda's being [Em] one of the most requested [F] music producers [D] ever since.
[N] Coming up_
There's a lot of technicality to it in the studio, in the engineering,
and Linda mastered the studio.
When Women on Top returns. _ _ _