The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #79154   Message #1433357
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
12-Mar-05 - 07:37 PM
Thread Name: What makes a good song?
Subject: RE: What makes a good song?
What you have have to realise old pal is the fact that most of the people here reckon a good song can be sung with either no accompaniment, or maybe a guitar or something and other people can sing it. Its okay, but its only one sort of songwriting.

You see a song is a little bit like a speech that a playwright writes. You must decide where your theatre is situated. When those metaphorical curtains part, where is the performer going to be.

are your words going to be singing out of a juke box, sang to a small theatre audience, coming out of the speakers at a rave, in a folk club, a rock stadium, a pub full of punks......

heres the secret, all of us songwriters we have in our mind the audience, the best audience, one who is going to appreciate and get off on what we do.

then you have to decide the best way you could do it for your audience. Do your best to achieve that. And if you're really lucky, your audience exists. Thats the tough part, for a lot of us, it doesn't!

Anyway best of luck, I can envisage a really charismatic performer being able to excite a crowd with what you have written already. there are no rules, do what the hell you like, be as outrageous as you want, the time to do that is when you're young.

And have fun!

all the best

Big Al Whittle