Letter to God (song)
| "Letter to God" | |
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| Single by Hole | |
| from the album Nobody's Daughter | |
| Released | April 20, 2010 |
| Format | Digital download |
| Recorded | March 2006 at Kung Fu Gardens Recording Studio in Hollywood, California and August 2009 with overdubs at Electric Lady Studios, New York, New York |
| Genre | Alternative rock, power pop |
| Length | 4:04 |
| Label | CherryForever Mercury/Island Def Jam (Universal Music Group) |
| Songwriter(s) | Linda Perry |
| Producer(s) | Linda Perry |
"Letter to God" is a song by alternative rock band Hole, written solely by music producer Linda Perry. The song was released as the band's sixteenth single, and third and final single from their fourth studio album Nobody's Daughter, on April 20, 2010, as a digital download. It is the only Hole single not to have been written by a member of the band and was featured in the short animated film, Dark Night Of The Soul, directed by Michael Mouris.
The song was written by producer Linda Perry in 2002-03, alongside the similarly-penned "Beautiful" which Hole frontwoman Courtney Love originally wanted to record, and was set aside by Perry. When she assigned as the producer for Love's second solo album How Dirty Girls Get Clean in 2005, Perry reworked — in her own words "Courtnified" — the song with Love during the original rehearsal sessions for the album. In its original recorded form; recorded at Perry's personal studio, Kung Fu Gardens Recording Studio in Hollywood, California in March 2006; the song featured Love on vocals, Perry on electric guitar, Peter Thorn on acoustic guitar, Paul Ill on bass, Kellii Scott on drums and percussion and Damon Fox on piano. In 2009, as a Hole song, the original version recorded three years prior was expanded on during the recording sessions for Nobody's Daughter, the reworked version of How Dirty Girls Get Clean. During the final recording sessions at New York's Electric Lady Studios, additional guitar and bass overdubs were added by lead guitarist Micko Larkin and bassist Shawn Dailey, respectively.
"Letter to God" was written solely by Perry in 2002–03 as a ballad. The song was composed in tuning half a step down (E♭-A♭-D♭-G♭-B♭-E♭) and in its original form, which was twelve seconds longer than the final version, had heavy emphasis on piano, with the opening chords (Am-G-Dm-Am) being strummed on guitar in the background. The opening of the song also used the same chords as the verse, including the revert to the minor chord, and for the chorus, the structure alternated to different, mostly major chords (C-Bm-F-C), and also the bass began being played. The bridge, which emphasised the drums, featured a further change (Bb-F-C) and ended with an outro based on the opening. In the Hole version of the song, the opening omitted the piano and solely used a guitar-led introduction with piano only being included during the choruses and bridge.
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