Re: NJC Lyricists as poets???

[Franklin Shea]

 > >Victor>  It is very difficult to write good lyrics

 Franklin> I'll assume this is a personal confession... difficult for
 who? That's an unmerited assumption.  I've read scads of articles
 involving songs I've found to be lyrically sophisticated, tasteful
 and wonderful where the writer says, "it just all flowed right off
 the pen."

Franklin to Franklin> You smart ass, you... I will give you the "unmerited assumption part though... ya' coulda' left out that first zinger though you incorrigible rascal! ##**##

Victor> Yes, and the football just flowed out of John Elway's hand.

Franklin> There IS something to be said about the ol' "practice makes perfect".

Victor>Just because something looks easy does not mean that it is. That's the whole magic and beauty of the artistic process.

Franklin> Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. There is a "magic and beauty"to the whole artistic process - at least when it succeeds on some level.

Victor> Being an artist involves a lot more than just sitting down with a pen and can be very challenging and draining.

Franklin> It can.

Victor>Jonatha Brooke has often talked about fighting her anit-muse, the part ofher that tells her she is no good and cannot write. All artists deal with
this, not just me. I'm not confessing anything-I'm talking about something
I know about. There are plenty of songs out there with terrible lyrics or
mediocre ones, as you said, on the radio. These people either just don't
care, are not really very good, or a combination.

Franklin> All true, except maybe the "all artists" (to generalized) part. I understand and accept your point though.

Victor> Some songs do just flow off the page, yes. But more often than not, they are a product of lots of work and personal searching, struggle, turmoil,
life experiences..

Franklin> I particularly agree with the "personal searching, struggle, turmoil and LIFE EXPERIENCES", that's where the best art surely seems to come from. Yes, well said.

Well said indeed, my friend (no presumption intended)

Franklin

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