TRUE BELIEVERS!!
❤️❤️❤️ THIS MAD DESIRE | TRUE LOVE –our 2024 Valentine’s single – is now streaming everywhere! The main message? True Love ain't what it used to be and True Love still means everything to me.
Written by Mackenzie Kristjon (moi) on the set of a Hallmark Christmas movie last summer. Joined by Dan Konopka (OK Go) on drums, award-winnimg Philly-based jazz vocalist Jessica Magoch on bg vox, Philly-based singer-songwriter Erica Corbo and Guelph cultural force Big John Leacock providing Spoken Word, and Disney composer Marcus Manderson aka Da Fingaz with some orchestrated news music.
WATCH THE VIDEO:
You can also purchase the track here or the T-shirt and if you are into Bandcamp or Artcore, links below.
BANDCAMP: https://thismaddesire.bandcamp.com/album/true-love
ARTCORE: https://artcore.com/release/
I’ve also created a THIS MAD DESIRE Love Songs Spotify Playlist to get you in the mood…
TMD LOVE SONGS SPOTIFY PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/72lfN1GmMBb1Ht3zMh89Er?si=b553cab871a447f6
ABOUT THE SONG
In June 2023, I was working on the set of this Hallmark Christmas movie set in Chicago (where drummer Dan Konopka is from) and had a couple of hours between activities so I pulled out my guitar and sketched this out at the site of Hamilton, Ontario's first ever water pump. (Actually it's a pretty cool place at 6am with the sun rising over Lake Ontario and fake snow everywhere...)
After lunch, I was working on a completely different movie downtown Hamilton set in Philadelphia (where both Jessica Magoch and Erica Corbo hang their professional music hats) and finished it off.
We all went back and forth very quickly across the immense geography of North America to get this done, recording in Hamilton, Toronto, and Guelph in Canada and Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC, in the US.
As the audio stretches across space, the video takes us through various decades and types of love.
And for those who might be single or going through break-ups or anything like that, I’ve been there too and I know Valentine’s can be a lonely time. Part of the message of this song is that True Love is a Dream That Can Deceive. I’m sure we all know that. We’ve all had our hearts broken at times in all of our lives but the main message of hope that I would dream for anyone to get from this track is that True Love (is possible and) still means everything to me.
HAPPY VALENTINE’S XOXO!!
-Mac