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Maddie518
Maddie518

Jul-24-2007 16:46


I love writing songs. So I wanted some ideas and to hear some songs from other people.

So I will pick the best song out of all of them.

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Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Jul-25-2007 16:44

Inspiration comes from within Maddie. Other peoples feelings and ideas will never mean as much to you as the way yours do, and so will always ring hollow to your listeners. You already have a great subject to write a song on, 'fear of failure' :)

Maddie518
Maddie518

Jul-26-2007 18:32

Hey I did not mean it that way.I just wanted to hear some songs ok? And I am not writing a song on fear of failure. I am just listening to other peoples songs!!!

Maddie518
Maddie518

Jul-26-2007 18:33

*growls because of stress*

crunchpatty
crunchpatty
Old Shoe

Jul-27-2007 00:27

Here ya go:

I'm growling cause of stress/
Every priest makes me confess/
My bowels feel like owls/
trying to make a nest

In my gullet. But my mullet/
is long and pointed west/
Where the pope is on vacation inside his bullet-proof vest/
So I shoot my ears off thinking "Hey, Gee whiz, I might be blessed"

yeah my Ipod never sounded louder/ My Ipod never sounded prouder/ I grew up on a street called Wowder, got hooked bad on baby powder.

But baby I can't hear you anymore!

What did you say?


Jim Diamond
Jim Diamond

Jul-27-2007 06:51

I gotta agree with Squirrel there. That's why Karaoke is so gundam hard. The songs you sing are written by someone who put their soul in it (often) and sung by them with a feeling you can't reproduce if you're not them. So you have two alternatives. The first is to try and immitate the original artist as good as possible, which will give you the sound, but not the feeling. Or you can do your own interpretation of the song, and put your own soul in it, which gives you the feeling but not the original sound. I used to sing for eight years, and studied music for six years, and I work extra at a Karaoke bar. I've heard oh so many different singers singing their own and others work through the years (I know people in bands as well).

There aren't many options for you.

Either take Squirrel's really good idea and write a song about fear of failure. It doesn't have to be about fear of failing to write a song. Channel the feeling into anything that you have in your life that you would feel really bad about failing at.

Or you can do what some do: Grab all your stuff, your guitar/bongos/piano, your notes and notebooks and what have you and go somewhere secluded to relax. A cottage in the woods or something similar usually works. Anywhere you can go to be all by yourself. And you go there to relax and be by yourself. If you do that it will come crawling back to you. Writer's block doesn't go away unless you ignore it, so you need to focus on something different than writing a song for a while.

Jim Diamond
Jim Diamond

Jul-27-2007 07:00

I'll give you an example.

I have a friend who died a couple of years back. Whenever I sing a song by a band that he liked I think of our friendship. That gives me "feeling" when I sing, and the song sounds much better than if I'd just stand there and sing without putting my heart in it. Though the song won't be about him. But the feeling in the song is real. So people who listen will only feel moved, but not understand why because "the song wasn't about the kinda feeling they get". So, to keep it real and all that, I strongly suggest you use your own feelings and write the song with them in mind, and then sing it as well with those same feelings. Then it will be "real", instead of only half-real.

biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

Jul-27-2007 12:54

Mannn Jim. Now I can't make a smart ass comment.

Crunch, I'm a fan, I'll be the Tennile to your Captain any day.

Ahoy.

Jojo
Jojo
Old Shoe

Jul-27-2007 15:32

How's this?


I call it: "Smelly Crunch"

Smelly Crunch, Smelly Crunch,
What are they feeding you?
Smelly Crunch, Smelly Crunch,
It's not your fault.

They won't let you take a bath,
Crunchpatty and beans, it's really simple math.
You may not be a bed of roses,
And you're no friend to those with noses.

Smelly Crunch, Smelly Crunch,
What are they feeding you?
Smelly Crunch, Smelly Crunch,
It's not your fault.

Maddie518
Maddie518

Jul-27-2007 20:05

Thats just mean but catchy Jojo.
*laughs so hard*

That is not funny ok thats just plain mean.

Anikka
Anikka
Babelfish

Jul-27-2007 21:01

LMAO!!!

Okay, looks like a Grammy race between Crunch and Jojo.

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