06-12-2024, 10:55 AM
@crow - based on the responses here plus the responses to my lyrics post, I see that:
1. Your definition of a lyric is a piece of poetry with performance aids / stage directions. Things like where to place a chorus, how to format a piece for it to look like song lyrics, and similar things.
2. Apart from (1), there is nothing. There is no need to even argue that a lyric is whatever goes into the body of a song. And we have countless examples of ordinary poems that are good song lyrics because of how they work with the music and the mood ('Mother'), and relatively better written poems that don't do much as songs ('Advance Australia Fair')
With (1) and (2), I think a lyrics subforum serves only to confuse, for no good reason.
Where it's a question of critiquing the song as a whole, we have the Movies, Music...forum for that.
1. Your definition of a lyric is a piece of poetry with performance aids / stage directions. Things like where to place a chorus, how to format a piece for it to look like song lyrics, and similar things.
2. Apart from (1), there is nothing. There is no need to even argue that a lyric is whatever goes into the body of a song. And we have countless examples of ordinary poems that are good song lyrics because of how they work with the music and the mood ('Mother'), and relatively better written poems that don't do much as songs ('Advance Australia Fair')
With (1) and (2), I think a lyrics subforum serves only to confuse, for no good reason.
Where it's a question of critiquing the song as a whole, we have the Movies, Music...forum for that.