J n' H ALLEGIANCE PROJECT : Angeline (Redneck version - Southern Rock voice)
Lyrics by Jelle Jansen 1981/ 1995-1996/ 2025 ©
Ai Music Creation by Hans Beljaards 2025
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The story of Angeline is about a girlfriend I met during my teenage years. Because of circumstances, we both had to leave home at an early age. She was tough and wild, but at the same time, she was someone I could trust with my life. She lived by the motto, “One for all, all for one.”
The lyrics are mainly about the weekend of October 3–5, 1980. I had saved up some money for food, drinks, and merch for the KISS concert on Sunday, October 5th, in Leiden, Holland. But then Angeline decided we had to go out and party on Friday the 3rd.
Early that evening, I was torn between spending my money to go out with a beautiful girl or saving it for the concert. She understood my hesitation right away and promised to double the money I had saved for the concert — which she actually did. So that night, we went out and had a great time, just like the lyrics say.
Back then, Angeline was a big part of my teenage street life. We skipped school more than once and did some pretty crazy things — like smoking Black Afghan or Lebanese hash. She was the girl who opened my eyes to a different kind of life, helping me take the first steps toward the person I would eventually become.
If I remember correctly, she moved back to her hometown in March 1981. Later that year, she showed up unexpectedly with a couple of rocker friends. At that time, I was with another girl, so the timing wasn’t right. I probably said the wrong thing — and I never saw her again.
Not long after that, I wrote one of my first lyrics for song, which was about her. A year later, another girl took my lyric notebook with her, so most of my early song lyrics are gone. But that doesn’t change the story of Angeline.
When Hans Beljaards asked me back in 1995 to write some lyrics for the keyboard-driven music he’d composed, “Angeline” came to mind again. In 1995/1996 I rewrote the song the way I remembered it, making sure not to lose that “Bonnie & Clyde feeling” she and I had back then.
But to me, the lyrics didn’t feel right for keyboard music — they needed to be rougher, more streetwise, dirty, sleazy…
Over the past few months (September – October 2025), I’ve added and changed a few new lines that came to me during workdays or whenever inspiration hit, to make it even sleazier. With Hans’s help, we ran my updated lyrics through his AI program — and out came a few AOR-style, melodic hard rock songs. Honestly, they all sounded boring to me. The lyrics just didn’t fit that kind of singers , I simply wouldn’t believe the guys singing them.
It took us almost two hours to nail down the right sound, but we finally ended up with a batch of redneck rockers with real attitude — you can practically smell the bar they’re hanging out in! Personally, I was going for that sleazy ’80s glam rock vibe, and one of them turned out really great! Sure, I know the music’s AI-generated, but I finally found the perfect sound for my lyrics.
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