l study a different songwriter each day , so far,
Kate Bush, Muse, and this weekend, its Led Zeppelin.
I'm finding it helpful to see how music structure is set as well as it being enjoyable in my study time looking at past famous recording Artist. Later l will study modern day Lyricist.
l was surprised that Led Zeppelin's lyrics are Poetic writing ,and some of their songs don't even have a chorus's ie 'Kashmir' and 'All My Love'. lm still reading through their lyrics from their Albums over the weekend.
l noticed as well, this morning that the actual word 'Kashmir' taken from their title, is only mentioned once in the whole of the song. That's very different compare to todays commercial songs which focus largely on chorus's imploying the title heavily.......and in most cases very strong rhyme.
So my question is.....Is rhyming lyrics in the verses ( l don't mean the chorus's, at the moment) old fashioned ,as the era's of songwriting form changes ?
So..do you write your all your lyrics in rhyme ?
lv been trying not to write my lyrics in rhyme, but l finding it really hard.
Every time l write , it comes out in poetic form (lv got a book full of my poems lv wrote already over months ), which l plan on making into song lyrics.
lm beginning to think to stop fighting it, and to carry on lyric writing in rhyme, as its not coming natural to me not to.
What's your opinions ?
Is there any other famous song writers that doesn't use rhyme much in the work, like Kate Bush ?..l don't think Enya 's Lyricist, her co- writer , uses much rhyme either, l'll have to study that next.
many thanks to people who respond to all my posts......lm really interested in what people have to say and all the different view points.