The biggest problem I've discovered with writing lyrics is that from one person to another, there is a different perception of how the song is supposed to sound. For instance, the way you read it, my syllable count is way off from what you hear in your mind and vice versa.
WES
Coming from a pure lyric viewpoint (which is why my time is spent here in the writers room), it is not so much the syllables rather the stresses in the language which dictate these aspects. For me, these are minor points and until the structure are right and the storyboard tight, not worth worrying about how it sounds.
Perceptions are a different matter altogether, every writer has the right to write what they want and keep it that way, every listener and reader has a similar right to like or dislike or even hate. Lyrics / Songs are basically for others, we tend almost always to sing to others or with others
therefore the importance of others perceptions are vitally important.
Whilst I would like more to comment on all posts, they dont, and this makes it difficult if you the writer are to make an opinon re somebodies elses opinion - when you are both right!
Collaborations are different thing all together if both writers are focused on making a better song, then the sound has to be agreed upon as do all aspects, the song itself is king and the writers the minions!
Good to have you on the ramp1
Arty
WES
Coming from a pure lyric viewpoint (which is why my time is spent here in the writers room), it is not so much the syllables rather the stresses in the language which dictate these aspects. For me, these are minor points and until the structure are right and the storyboard tight, not worth worrying about how it sounds.
Perceptions are a different matter altogether, every writer has the right to write what they want and keep it that way, every listener and reader has a similar right to like or dislike or even hate. Lyrics / Songs are basically for others, we tend almost always to sing to others or with others
therefore the importance of others perceptions are vitally important.
Whilst I would like more to comment on all posts, they dont, and this makes it difficult if you the writer are to make an opinon re somebodies elses opinion - when you are both right!
Collaborations are different thing all together if both writers are focused on making a better song, then the sound has to be agreed upon as do all aspects, the song itself is king and the writers the minions!
Good to have you on the ramp1
Arty
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