I’ll Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That) Meat Loaf

Meat Loaf

Single album cover

Album cover: To hell and back II

Song

Meat Loaf:•Born: Michael Lee Aday• Dallas, Texas• September 27, 1947

•Actor• Broadway• The Rocky Horror Picture Show

•Many successful albums

•Toured United States, Germany, England, Scandinavia, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Greece, Abu Dhabi, Oman and Bahrain

About

Meat Loaf and family

Meat Loaf:

•Married Leslie Edmonds in 1978 • daughter Amanda born in 1981• 2001

•Diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome in 2003

• Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome causes an irregular heartbeat

About

Meat Loaf and family

Jim Steinman

Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf.

The Talent behind the music is long

time friend Jim Steinman

Jim Steinman is a composer and

writer for most of meat Loaf’s songs. They became good friends with ups

. and downs throughout their

relationship.

Talent

HISTORY•Composed and written by Jim

Steinman

•Recorded by Meat Loaf

•Female vocalist by Lorraine Crosby

•The popular song, I’ll do anything for

love was released in 1993

•Reached #1 in the charts in 28

countries.

• It was # 1 in the USA for five weeks,

and in the UK it was the biggest hit in

1993.

I’ll Do Anything for Love (But I Wont Do That)

A snap shot of meatloaf singing this song

HISTORY

In the song, each verse mentions two things that he would do for love, followed by one thing that he will not do. Each mention of "that" is a reference to the particular promise that he made earlier in the same verse. The four times he says, “I won’t do that” refers to:

forget the way you feel right nowforgive myself if we don't go all the way tonightdo it better than I do it with you, so longstop dreaming of you every night of my life

At the end of the song, the female vocalist says two more things he will do:

You'll see that it's time to move on

You'll be screwing around

Of course Meat Loaf responds with, “I won’t do that!”

I’ll Do Anything for Love (But I Wont Do That)

What is “that”?

They assumed the song might cause some confusion, but due to the nature of Meat Loaf’s music it might not seem out of the norm.

About•Song starts with a guitar played to sound like a revving motorcycle

•Piano playing melody. Harmony and melody are very simple.

•Guitar and bass play a strong base, while piano is playing melody . . .

•Male voice softly joins piano playing melody. Piano and male voice only.

•Music continues with male voice and tempos change

I’ll Do Anything for Love (But I Wont Do That)

About•At around 9 minutes into the song a female vocalist joins in asking

questions, while male vocalist replies. Song is ascending.

•Duet continues, song reached a peak and it’s not descending.

•Male vocalist only sings chorus with piano playing melody slowly and

softly.

•Piano plays the last few notes with the end of the notes trailing off.

•Song ends at 11 minutes and 58 seconds.

I’ll Do Anything for Love (But I Wont Do That)

Albums: Bat Out of Hell (1977) Dead Ringer (1981) Midnight at the Lost and Found (1983) Bad Attitude (1984) Blind Before I Stop (1986) Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell (1993) Welcome to the Neighbourhood (1995) Couldn't Have Said It Better (2003) Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster is

Loose (2006) Hang Cool Teddy Bear (2010) Hell in a Handbasket (2011)

Instruments

Meat Loaf male voice

Lorraine Crosby female lead vocals

Tim Pierce guitar

Eddie Martinez  guitar

Steve Buslowe bass guitar

RoyBittan  piano, keyboards

Kenny Aronoff drums

Instruments used in Meat Loaf’s performance of the song

Today•Recently Meat Loaf has shown his face in the political battle and endorses Mitt Romney.

•Meat Loaf explained that “I have never been in any political agenda in my life, but I think that in 2012 this is the most important election in the history of the United States.“

•Event happened on October 25, 2012 

Recent news of Meat Loaf

WhyI grew up listening to some of his songs and I remember seeing his album in my mom’s CD collection. And was horrified that such a pretty songs came from a scary looking album cover. I never knew who the singer was except his name. I remember I loved listening to a few of his songs and his voice was very comforting.

Fast forward almost 2 decades and I saw him on Celebrity Apprentice with Donald Trump. I was able to link the music to a face. Since then I was able to learn more about him and his music.  

Why this song and musician

Meat Loaf on Celebrity apprentice

Alyssa Heller Professor Lora Kelly

MUSC-1010-049November 1st 2012