I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A rhyme doesn't make a song.
Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.
Assonance is not the enemy of rhyme. It helps us to respect rhyme, which has been spoiled by mechanical use.
Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.
As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.
I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.
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.