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QUOTE OF THE DAY: Bono on how songs have become too ‘girly’ …
“I think music has gotten very girly. And there are some good things about that, but hip-hop is the only place for young male anger at the moment – and that’s not good. “When I was 16, I had a lot of...
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“SURPRISING RHYMING” – a new kind of rhyming dictionary designed to make it...
With more new songs being written every week than ever before, songwriters are finding it harder to sound original and find rhymes and phrases that have not already been used. Now, a new kind of...
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SONGWRITING TIPS: Show don’t tell when writing your lyrics, says Tom Odell …
Tom Odell’s beautiful song ‘Constellations’—from his 2016 album Wrong Crowd—opens with Tom talking to a girl in a busy bar and his lyrics vividly describe the scene. It’s a great example of why...
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RHYMING FOR SONGWRITERS: How to surprise your audience …
by Brian Oliver An extract from his new book, “Surprising Rhyming for Songwriters and Poets”, an alternative rhyming dictionary designed to help writers create unique rhymes and avoid tired old...
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SONGWRITING TIPS: Keep your songwriting process simple, says Taylor Swift
“Songwriting is still the same uncomplicated process it was when I was 12 years old writing songs in my room,” said Taylor Swift in a recent interview with Harper’s BAZAAR magazine. She said: “There...
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: Paul McCartney on how he and John Lennon wrote songs before...
In a recent live Q&A session at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), Paul McCartney told Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker that, in the early days of The Beatles, he and John Lennon had...
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SONGWRITING TIPS: Max Martin reveals the secret behind his successful...
“I don’t think Max Martin is human,” says record label boss and reality TV judge Simon Cowell. “Nobody human can do everything he’s done over the years. He has helped to make and define a sound and...
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: Ed Sheeran on the importance of being ambitious and...
Photo: Eva Rinaldi “If you don’t wanna be bigger than Adele, you’re in the wrong industry … I don’t want to be the male Adele. I want to be Adele.” –Ed Sheeran # # # # “SURPRISING RHYMING” – The...
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SONGWRITING TIPS: Constantly set yourself new creative challenges to keep...
From Paul Weller’s emergence as a songwriting force with the power punk of The Jam in the 1970s to the soul sounds of The Style Council in the 1980s—followed by many diverse solo albums since—he has...
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SONGWRITING TIPS: Try David Bowie’s ‘cut-up’ method of writing lyrics
When David Bowie released his twenty-fourth studio album, The Next Day, in 2013, a journalist asked him to explain his thinking behind the new songs, each of which featured unusual, cryptic lyrics and...
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