Originally Posted by BIG JIM MERRILEES
Hey Kirsti. OK Different direction. Try another language. Country music, if this forum is anything to go by, is all about telling a story and precise understandable lyrics that spell it out. Just to alter that viewpoint listen to a song in another language. You might not understand what the story is about or understand the words but you will certainly appreciate the sounds fitting the music.

Try Chanson D'Amour by Manhatten Transfer. (French)
It is a good example of this.


Thanks Jim. That is clearer to me. Yeah, I know exactly what you’re saying. True. Very true.

Awareness of this kind of thing just makes the songs we write that much better!

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write,
if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be,
he must be. -- Abraham Maslow, American Psychologist