Goodnight Kiss Music (BMI) & Scene Stealer Music
(ASCAP) Goodnight Kiss Music (BMI) & Scene Stealer Music
(ASCAP)
Feb 24 - Feb 28, 1999
My topic of choice today is so simple, but it took me years
of writing and listening to figure out. I have been sharing it in
my classes, and now I want to share it here.
www.goodnightkiss.com
I Need Heroes
I want to have heroes. I miss them. I celebrate them. I want to
be a hero. I want to make a difference, to matter, to help. I
want to be a hero to myself as well as others. (No, I'm not girl
scouting you, I am making a point.) Most people on the planet
seek a better life. (Some have it a bit wrong about what makes a
better life, but that's another topic.) Almost everyone has,
wants, or wants to be a hero in some way.
My point is, that we should love, identify, cheer-on, and pretty
much want to be, (or already feel we are) the hero in your song.
Yes, in my opinion, there better be one. It can be the singer (the
truest commercial way), the subject of the song (Mama), an
outside saving force (the stranger who came to the rescue), or
even something less physical, (i.e. hope). The best songs we
love, the ones that have lasted a LIFETIME, all have heros in
them somewhere. And they are not (as figures) robotic, above
human capability, gods (ok, some songs are about God, hard to
beat that hero, but that's also another topic)... you know what I
am saying. NOW! Some of the best songs voice a complaint, and
yet, by gosh, there is STILL a hero there, somewhere.
If you are writing a lament, we need something endearing about
the lamenter that makes us WANT to indulge his complaint. If he
just whines for three verses about what a rotten woman his ex is
for leaving him, we might think she was right by the end of the
song... unless he can convince us why she should have wanted (and
we would have wanted) to stay with him. Again, I'm sure you can
go seek out a song that's a Standard that doesn't have a hero,
but I'd like to see it, and know why you LOVE it (might be for
the artist, but probably not the song.) And I'd still wager your
top ten favorites would have heroes more than not.
Go look at your songs and see where
the heroes are.
Let me know if you disagree.
Janet
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