Further liner notes from the Soul Beauty, Vol. 2 album:
I wrote “Believe Me” while I was working on trying to get a song placed on a John Legend album. The initial goal was to put together a piece not unlike a “Heaven,” and my vocals were only intended to serve as a placeholder. Although it was originally intended to be pitched to him, the song was definitely borne out of my own personal experience at the time, and after a while I realized that I’d much rather use the song myself in some other permutation, perhaps. This was a piece that went through a few stylistic changes during its composition: the lyrics were written first, with a loose melody and a chorus that largely resembled the final version; the ascending and descending motif before the verses came later; and tempo and instrumental arrangements varied throughout the life of the song until I finally recorded it. The outro synth solo was a lot of fun to record; instead of using my wah pedal, I decided to use a talkbox to articulate the tonal shifts more precisely.
Go ahead and take another listen!
-BrotherSpanky
