Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.
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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.
To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation.
Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do when you're writing a chapter of a book or writing poetry, but it's really hard to do when you're confined to a melody line.
You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.
I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is kind of invisible; it's a weird kind of work to have because you're not working, but it's not not work. Formulating your thoughts and making a melody that's catchy enough for people to listen to what you're saying is really hard!
To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.
The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.
As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.
We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.
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