JPF Home Page Forums General Messages Songwriter Message Forum "Lyric" forums should mostly be called "Poetry"

Well, as someone who only has 26 posts, you sure think highly of your knowledge around here. As the folks who have actually BEEN here for a long time and have posted and interacted for years and years already know, we don't halt anyone from disagreeing and we don't halt someone from saying something stupid. Ironically, I didn't attack your premise so much as I thought it was funny how easy it was for you to post something so absurdly insulting to the lyric writers here when you were probably smart enough to know your entire premise was pretty inaccurate. Perhaps you're not as smart as I gave you credit for, and if that was the case, I apologize for giving you too much credit. You admitted yourself that you wanted to see the response to your "outrageous" view. That's the same thing as saying you were baiting people and you were disappointed when less people than you hoped responded. (Actually, I was pretty impressed that most folks simply ignored your bait).

Your topic attempted to be outrageous by your own statement. It was your intent. Rather than hitting your intended target, it was a bit wide. But you caught a few comments around the fringes. If you really want a quality and sustained argument with the big dogs, you'll have to come up with a premise that's a lot more intelligent and valid though.

Here's one I use all the time with the Lyric crowd that always gets me shouted down: The music/melody is more important than the lyrics to determine if a song will become a hit. We've had that one rage on several times. But suggesting no one could write music to the lyrics posted on our site shows how crappy those you are familiar with must be at writing music/melodies.

But thanks for playing Malenac, you'll get better,

Brian