She Amazed Me: How Random Lyrics Can Sound Cool
Last month, Scott Adams, author of Dilbert, asked readers of his blog to write random lyrics that almost seemed to make sense. A band in Germany later combined many of those lyrics and turned them into a song. I must say, the resulting song is quite catchy. It almost seems to make sense. And I'm sure you can come up with some weird interpretation if you try hard enough. Here is a video that another reader of Scott Adam's blog put on Youtube with the song:
I believe this stands as proof that you don't really need much writing skills to come up with a hit song. Just luck and good music. My compliments to all those writers out there who actually put their minds into writing good songs. (I still don't mind the nonsensical songs with good music though!)
Comments
The sound is cool! Thanks!
Posted by: Femina | February 11, 2008 9:47 AM
It says "We're sorry, this video is no longer available." when I hit play...
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Posted by: Lidia Noemà | February 12, 2008 6:10 PM
I am definitely amazed! What a song!
Posted by: Marian | March 4, 2008 1:08 PM
It's a very interesting technique for writing song lyrics, which is really something that many people struggle with, as I've tried to explain in my article "How to write lyrics" which takes another approach. But here, by removing the obligation to make any sense, the free association of ideas and the sounds of words can be set loose in a creative way and that's somewhere near the essence of songwriting in any case. If the music and vocalising sound convincing enough then a sense of meaning can be found in the lyrics even where the writer had none in mind at the time of writing the nonsense song lyrics themselves.
Posted by: Allen - How to write lyrics | August 24, 2008 3:13 AM
It's a very interesting technique for writing song lyrics, which is really something that many people struggle with. By removing the obligation to make sense, the free association of ideas and the sounds of words can be set loose in a creative way and that's somewhere near the essence of songwriting in any case. If the music and vocalising sound convincig enough then a sense of meaning can be found in the lyrics even where the writer had none in mind at the time of writing the nonsense song lyrics themselves.
How o write lyrics
Posted by: Allen - How to write lyrics | August 24, 2008 3:14 AM