Excuse me, miss, have we been acquainted yet?

Hello all,

I'm Ellis of Gets the Girl.  I arrange and  produce the music, play the keyboards, and occasionally write songs.    The other man in our little duo is Allen, who sings, plays guitar, and contributes much of the lyrics.  We've started this blog  to document our journey as we strive for relevancy in today's fractured but exciting music world.  

I'm a rising junior at Yale, and Allen is a sophomore at NYU, where he plays point guard on the basketball team and acoustic guitar at dorm parties.  For my part, I study music composition, and when I'm not playing with the band, I'm writing string quartets or whatever for like, classical ensembles.  I run a group at Yale called sic inc-- Students' Indie-Classical Interdisciplinary Collective.  Essentially, it's a group of performers whose goal is to present genre-less instrumental music in an interesting and accessible way.

Anyway, the two of us form the core of Gets the Girl, although we have a whole team surrounding us.  There's Niraj, our drummer (also a junior at Yale), and Avi, our manager.  We also work periodically with a cellist at Yale, a guitarist at Berklee, and a percussionist at Westfield State in MA, and are currently in the process of finding a new bassist.  I actually just finished talking with Avi about the possibility of a late-summer tour.  We think we'll be doing an 8-10 day trip of major cities on the East Coast, though the details are all pretty fuzzy at this point.  Things should clear up soon, as Allen is coming to join me in my Brooklyn home on Monday, and we'll start working it out then.  So stay tuned!

I'll leave you with this video we made last summer for one of our pieces, Slow Song.  It took like, 40 hours of Photoshopping to come up with this stop-motion/live-motion mix.  Lyrics are posted below:

are we too old to remember the days when we were all so separated

and it took the courage of a lion to venture out across the gym floor

say something sweet, get you to come on out with me and find your hips with my hands

so we could sway, oh so uncomfortably, and be so pleased with ourselves?

oh won't you come on reminisce to a slow song with me?

oh won't you come on reminisce to a slow song with me?

questions rise, questions fall on listener's ear

if you're my better half, what am i without you here?

i pass a note to see if you would be my lady

complete with boxes checking no, yes, or maybe

i miss the times when it was simply you and i-- been such a long time

chorus

Hope you like it!  You can hear our stuff at www.myspace.com/getsthegirl , on iTunes, or at this FREE DOWNLOAD LINK, where you can get our entire catalogue of music.  If you like it, please click the share button below-- we would love your support!  We also have a facebook group and fanpage.

Cheers,

Ellis