Editing ...But Seriously (section)

==Background==
In July 1987, Collins finished touring commitments with the band [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] and resumed his solo career. He had scored a series of hit singles with his previous solo album ''[[No Jacket Required]]'' (1985) and with Genesis on ''[[Invisible Touch]]'' (1986), and recognised this period as "severe danger of overkill" due to the high amount of radio airplay the songs had received.<ref name=TS90>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48821501/|title=Collins' LP reflects individual, romantic concerns|date=16 February 1990|newspaper=The Sentinel|page=D5|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|access-date=16 April 2020}}</ref> To combat this, Collins took a year out solely from music and accepted a lead role in ''[[Buster (film)|Buster]]'' (1988), a romantic comedy film based on the [[Great Train Robbery (1963)|Great Train Robbery]]. Collins recorded "[[Two Hearts (Phil Collins song)|Two Hearts]]" and "[[A Groovy Kind of Love]]" for [[Buster (soundtrack)|the soundtrack]], which led to his belief that people thought his songs had become "Very, very light. That wasn't where I was coming from."<ref name=TS90/> When he started work on his next solo album, Collins deliberately shifted styles by addressing more serious issues in his lyrics and songs with greater depth than the dance-oriented approach for ''No Jacket Required''.<ref name=TS90/> Some bits of music originated as far back as 1978.<ref name=WEA89/> Primarily, Collins wrote and demoed the songs at his Old Croft home onto a 12-track recorder with piano, drum machine & keyboards, then he did a guide vocal to improvise lyric and melody ideas. The lyrics for songs like "[[Another Day in Paradise]]" and "[[That's Just the Way It Is]]" were developed around these initial vocal ideas.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmbHFurHwC8 Phil Collins Serious Press Conference Toronto 1990 FULL VIDEO - Ultra Rare] (7:08 mark)</ref>