Last Day Of School - Movie Theme Song

Hey Everyone,
 
This is a very different track for me... I was hired to do an early 2000s style pop-punk party song for this movie Last Day Of School (which will be coming out next year). Any of you who have listened to my music know I usually do instrumental, dark, ambient/electronica type stuff... but I thought this would be a fun challenge. So enjoy this and let me know what you think :-)
 
https://soundcloud.com/bydavidrosen/last-day-of-school-theme-song
 

kakku
As a theme song this really works. The guitar sound was not perhaps my favorite but otherwise a great theme song.

Thanks kakku! Yea I'm not much of a guitarist, but I just threw some GuitarRig on there until it sounded like New Found Glory or Good Charlotte and played some power chords :-) haha

Thanks :-)

I think you pretty much nailed it. Straight up, in your face raw rock. Really like the descending lines that drive the hook. The only thing that threw me off a bit was the intro (stops/cuts/power chords) - somehow I couldn't lock into the timing as easily as I expected to - it's probably me. Perfect for a party movie!

Thank you guys :-) Really appreciate the comments. The movie is supposed to actually be distributed next year and it's pretty ridiculous and wild... Even has a cameo by Lloyd Kaufman from Troma Films (who distributed their last film), so I'll definitely post a link once it's out.
 
As for the comments, it is basically a done deal for now (this plus an instrumental version will be used in the film), but definitely a lot of great feedback. I considered adding some more layers of guitar and panning them out with a little different sound on them, but I kind of had it to the point where I was happy with it and it was at deadline so I called it a day. If they decide they want any kind of changes though after the fact, maybe i'll go back in and play with that and/or that snare drum. 

Thanks! Yea the double tracked vocals throughout just kind of go with that sound from the early 2000s which is why I left it all the way through. If I wasn't going for such a specific thing I probably would have done what you said :-)

So you made the lyrics too. I just realized. Great job! I have done lyrics twice and both time they were wierd.

polarbear
Haha yea lyrics too. I used to do a lot of comedy-rap stuff (still do, but I just don't talk about it much as not to take away from my "serious" music haha), so writing lyrics is something i've done for a while. Still not my main focus though.

Ok, so you are a man of many talents.

gusrogers
I really hate the old whiny pop rock of that era, I think you have nailed it in terms of what you were after. Good work, just not my kinda thing.

Haha, perfect :-)
 
And I wouldn't say I hated it, it did its job... which was background music for being drunk at parties trying to meet girls... But I don't think I'll be making a playlist of New Found Glory and Good Charlotte songs anytime soon haha.

Thanks Lynn! :-)

Thank you! Really appreciate these comments everyone. It's kind of making me want to finally finish this funny little guitar based album I've had planned for years and just never get around to. Maybe it's time to get that thing done... I need an excuse to play my guitar more anyway haha.