| i stayed up til 3 last night reading this old stuff.
how we change eh? i was quite the angry and twisted child
anyway, if anyone visits... http://juegodenaranjas.blogspot.com
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| moved to: www.xanga.com/inmypockets
got sick of "hammi_e". pretty frickin gay.
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| I have no idea how that got there. I swear.
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| "I'm shooting stars at you"
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| This post is dedicated to my friend Milton.
I used to wonder why all my melodies sounded cheesy. I realised, the
melodies are cheesy because my lyrics were shallow and cliche.
You can write as many songs as you want, and you can have great
rhythms, catchy chord changes and the tastiest licks. But if you're not
writing about something or for something, then your song will lack
soul. You can write songs about that same girl a hundred times, and
they're going to sound the same a hundred times. If you want your song
to be special, the subject has to be special. And you're going to have
to figure out how to put that into lyric.
Some people say that writing a song everyday helps people improve. I
find, that this generation is way too sheltered to have anything to
write about. We don't have bills to pay, parents who beat us, siblings
to raise, wives who leave us. Our level of emotional maturity is
honestly pretty shallow. Every other song that a teenager writes is
about that special girl. Who most of the time isn't all that speical.
I don't write unless I have something to write about. Something mature,
something with a little more depth than "Oh she's so beautiful, I stare
into her dark eyes and lose myself inside".
Anyone can write that. But if you want to write songs which move
people, if you want to write melodies which move people, then the
subject itself has to move people.
Good luck, and don't give up on writing. Everybody needs to get their
feelings out sometimes. It's just that we musicians have this special
ability to make it sound good.
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