Originally Posted by Marc Barnette
I always love the Nash bashers that continually criticize current songs but have to go back thirty five years to name songs that would fit their point and songs that probably would not be cut if they came through today.
One of the reasons perfect rhymes don;t work as well now is BECAUSE the buying public is turning them off, not to mention the filters before they get to the public. To ignore that cuts your nose off to spite your face.

MAB


Marc,

You make a valid point, but I think Robert does too.

If I may take an intermediary position: I think we, as songwriters, should define our goals and know who we are writing for. Are we writing to get a cut in Nashville? Or, are we trying to write 'one for the ages'? For ourselves? For our niece?

Certainly the lyrics that Tom has written for Justice have a completely different approach to rhymes than his work for himself does, and rightly so.

How we decide to work with rhymes ultimately depends on many things, but mostly what works for us, each of us, individually, and that changes from song to song, depending on the lyric's context. I think there's room in the world for trendy lyrics and timeless lyrics. There are good and bad at both extremes. smile

Mike

Last edited by Michael Zaneski; 07/29/09 10:54 PM.
Fate doesn't hang on a wrong or right choice
Fortune depends on the tone of your voice

-The Divine Comedy (Neil Hannon)
from the song "Songs of Love"
from the album "Casanova" (1996)