Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.
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Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.
Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. They're all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They're tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.
Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.
A melody is not merely something you can hum.
There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.
I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.
But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.
Why can't jazz musicians just leave a melody alone?
The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.
There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.