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Heh heh. Might be time to regroove your logic model. You're ascribing a causal relationship where there is none. I've written lots of them. What I can't crack is writing good ones — both requited and un. Here's one of my uns:
"Sinkin' Down"And here's a requited: "My Baby Likes Me"See the problem? Those will never make tender hearts throb and willing women swoon! =O[ Last edited by Charlie Bernstein; 04-08-2024 at 09:28 AM. |
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Some good tips already in this thread. Some have already pointed out that sincere or earnest love songs can be tough to escape from the "sappy" trap. Love, real love, is something that one feels and does, something lived, it doesn't necessarily fit into words, though we try.
Heartbreak is easier to write about. One tactic is to get expressionistic, even surreal about it. Bob Dylan has written love songs that try for the sincere and straightforward, but he's a master at the outlandish love song that throws in metaphors from whatever. "Love Minus Zero=No Limit" for an example. One can treat bad love or heartbreak this way too. Here's my translation of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova's poem called simply "Liubov" in Russian (Love) which I set to music and played for this video:
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Oh, yeah! Catchy tune! Too bad those guys couldn't get past the "other Beatles" albatross.
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Yep. He's great at both. From "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You" to "Visions of Johanna." Nice! The vocals are very Mike Scott of the Waterboys. Love that guy. Last edited by Charlie Bernstein; 04-09-2024 at 07:55 AM. |
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love songs
Haven't read other replies to this, so someone likely covered this base, but....you've gotta' feel it to write it. The best love songs in American history came from heartbreaking times...like ww2 and nam. .. especially nam. Songs that express hurt and, maybe, resolution thereof, strike a chord in the heart...a la Neil Diamond (e.g. "Song Sung Blue"..and the artist who wrote "Sylvia's mother"). Neil Diamond expressed the pain of his many heartaches. I owe that man so much that I'll never get to express, as fame and fortune form such an impenetrable wall.
Well done love songs move the hurt from the inside to the outside. That's the secret of their magic. Sung later by others through the years...the same thing happens again for the performer as well as the hearer. Wound pain is confined to no era. Last edited by 12FanMan; 04-08-2024 at 12:36 PM. Reason: grammer error |
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Absolutely! It's like they say in the lottery commercials: You gotta be in it to win it. Quote:
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