BS: Folk? Poetry first, then music, maybe.

Subject: BS: Folk? Poetry first, then music, maybe.
From: gnu
Date: 18 Oct 17 - 07:26 PM

American Idiot
Green Day 2004

Don't wanna be an American idiot
Don't want a nation under the new media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind-fuck America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

Don't wanna be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information Age of hysteria
It's calling out to idiot America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

Songwriters: Billie Joe Armstrong / Frank E. / Iii Wright / Michael Pritchard
American Idiot lyrics ? Warner/Chappell Music, Inc

Subject: RE: BS: Folk? Poetry first, then music, maybe.
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Oct 17 - 08:58 PM

The chorus has no umph If the music has a melody and a counter melody to the same chord progression, you could sing the chorus on top of the last four lines of the six line stanza with good effect. (louder each time)

Where everything isn't meant to be OK
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
(vague - nonsensical - awkward without resolution)

how about an easier clearer positive chorus to sing and remember

They will tell you who and what to fear
They will tell you when the coast is clear
They only look at their bottom line
think for yourself and you'll be fine

steal a fav chord progression and you got a kick ass song.

oh, its done already, I'll get me hat.

Subject: RE: BS: Folk? Poetry first, then music, maybe.
From: gnu
Date: 18 Oct 17 - 10:01 PM

Cool take!