{"id":182,"date":"2026-01-24T17:25:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2026-01-24T17:25:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:25:25","slug":"the-story-behind-the-song-broken-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/24\/the-story-behind-the-song-broken-people\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story Behind the Song: \u201cBroken People\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I began writing \u201cBroken People\u201d in the spring of 2015, not long after the death of my partner. I was watching <em>Casablanca<\/em>, of all things, on TV while noodling on my guitar. It took a few days to complete the song. It became part of Chameleon Red\u2019s repertoire, and was played live a few times. It became #4 in the Covid Isolation series, recorded in late June. A friend had suggested I make a video inspired by Robert Palmer\u2019s \u201cAddicted to Love\u201d video, and this seemed like a good song to use to develop that idea. It was fun to execute the idea of the \u201cclones\u201d turning into individual band members, though all those costume changes made for a tiring video shoot. As with \u201cSing Open the Circle,\u201d the crowd singing was recorded by individuals at their homes and then sent to me for integration into the mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I began writing \u201cBroken People\u201d in the spring of 2015, not long after the death of my partner. I was watching Casablanca, of all things,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/24\/the-story-behind-the-song-broken-people\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Story Behind the Song: \u201cBroken People\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}