ELISE SMIDT
Music
I've been playing the piano since I was 6, and wrote my first smash hit, the "Spaghetti Song", when I was 10.
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When I was 15, I wrote a song about Peanut butter, that my little brother ended up recording in a studio.
I posted a video of it online and it currently has 50k views on YouTube!
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Ever since moving to London, I've met some other people who love making music and I've started writing English lyrics. While I still have a passion for writing comedic childish songs (aka "the Fart song" - that happened to be nominated for an award by the way!), I've started writing some more serious tracks too.
Have a listen below!
The Peanut Butter Song
Turn on subtitles if you don't speak Dutch!
The Fart Song
This song was part of an advertising brief to raise awareness for a Scottish charity called "Hearts and Minds".
They work with clown doctors who cheer up kids in hospitals, often through music.
Goodbye London Ballad
When I decided to leave London for Switzerland, a little thing called Corona happened. This meant I wouldn't be able to say goodbye to any of my friends or colleagues in London. To make up for it (and because I just had to write up my feelings in a song) I made the below dramatic ballad about London.
Octopus Rap
To celebrate World Octopus day (8th of October), my creative partner Karina and I wrote a rap song about plastic in the ocean. We went around London in Octopus costumes to make absolute fools out of ourselves and to film the music video.
Valentine's Day Song
On Valentine's Day, Karina and I wanted to pay hommage to the real loves of our lives: our colleagues at MullenLowe who brighten our lives every day.
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So, we filmed all of our work friends without telling them why, and then put together a song and music video telling them how much we love them.
Case Closed
This one is a more serious pop song.
I wrote Case Closed with my friend Darnell, who is a songwriter in London.
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Listen to Case Closed on Spotify:
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Or watch the lyric video on YouTube:
Nobody
I like writing songs from the perspective of someone who is very different from me.
This one was made in Darnell's studio as well :)