Originally Posted by Marty Dolciamore
I concur with Sheila Davis (The Craft of Lyric Writing) that there is a need to be mindful of what your song/lyrics will convey when they are targeted at certain vulnerable groups within a society such as impressionable youth, etc.



There's a lot of hypocrisy around this (not necessarily from yourself, I will add).

For example, some of the commentators who make a big deal about hip-hop artists allegedly promoting violence and bad attitudes towards women don't seem to be at all bothered about the country artists whose songs have celebrated gun culture and paraded misogyny for many decades.

Of course, such characterisations are not true of the majority of artists in either genre.

Steve Cooke
Stockton-on-Tees, UK
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