Exclusive Download: Icebird's Groovy 'Charmed Life'

RJD2 and Aaron Livingston of Icebird.

Tim Blackwell

Click to listen to Icebird's "Charmed Life"

"Charmed Life," the new single from producer RJD2 and vocalist Aaron Livingston, was inspired by a drunken argument Livingston had with his girlfriend. "It's about struggling to maintain sanity when it seems like the world around you is falling apart," says the singer. "I've been through some difficult things, like anyone, but I've also been lucky to do some extraordinary things with extraordinary people, and be involved in some really cool stuff. I really do believe I live a charmed life, though I sometimes forget. 'Charmed Life' is about how luxurious it is to be able to sit around arguing with a pretty girl. Lots of people in this world never get a chance to do that."

Icebird's debut album The Abandoned Lullaby will hit stores on October 11th, but you can download "Charmed Life" for free here today.

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“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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