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Day 4: The Great Midwestern Lacuna Tour: Songwriting in Madison

Day 4: 7.20.08 Songwriting in Madison

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Today’s blog will post in installments.

Part I: A few questions:

When you listen to music do you prefer specific lyrics? General lyrics? Both combined?

Let me know and provide a lyrical sample-just a few lines.

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Does popular contemporary music require highly generalized lyrics?

Do you have any examples of popular musicians writing highly specific songs?

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I’m working on two new songs-”The Cannibals and Vegans,” and “The Rottingham Plague.” Adam and I are talking about specificity and generality in songwriting and pop music.

I’ll leave you with a sample of highly generalized lyrics from a popular song:

Britney Spears
“Baby One More Time”

“Oh baby, baby
Oh baby, baby
Oh baby, baby
How was I supposed to know
That something wasn’t right here
Oh baby baby
I shouldn’t have let you go
And now you’re out of sight, yeah
Show me, how you want it to be
Tell me baby
‘Cause I need to know now what we’ve got”

(I claim no ownership for those words-they are definitely not mine).

So close to Iowa-flood fallout and fields of proto-corn syrup.

Sleep tight or good morning.

I’ll follow this up with some further thoughts on generality and specificity-hopefully in response to your posts.

ymmmm…proto-corn syrup.
Carson

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2 Responses to “Day 4: The Great Midwestern Lacuna Tour: Songwriting in Madison”

  1. dc Says:
    July 24th, 2008 at 2:31 am

    “she wrote my name on the red telephone box / when I got there she’d already rubbed it off” –the coral

    “hip bone connected to my thigh bone, thigh bone connected to my leg bone, leg bone connected to my ankle bone”
    –Parliament

    “crack mothers, crack babies and aids patients, youngbloods can’t spell but they can rock you at Playstation” –Mos Def

    If it’s specificity you’re looking for, you could do a lot worse than hip hop.

  2. Carson Says:
    July 27th, 2008 at 2:47 pm

    DC, you make a good point. We’ve been listening to some hip-hop (Aesop Rock) and you’ve stressed to me before that you see good lyricism happening much more in hip-hop these days than in other styles of music.

    And the word play of hip hop-the self-awareness of the artist with regard to the words they are using-comes across in the Mos Def quotation: crack rock=”rock you at Playstation.”

    Cheers

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