Players only love you when they’re playing It’s in a song I love, ‘Dreams’ by Fleetwood Mac, written and sung by Stevie Nicks. (Remember that it’s very hard to imagine something differently that you’ve heard a thousand times… but try just as an exercise.) I have a question for you regarding a classic example. So in this case it’s hard-to-impossible to understand what’s being sung… and usually that’s not a songwriter’s goal.Īnd by the way, people everywhere pronounce words differently, so there’s no one right way… but I don’t think in 1960’s Long Island they were pronouncing it ‘end lessly’. Endlessly is usually pronounced ‘ endlessly’. Why the confusion? The Rascals sing the line this way: “You and me end lessly”. It turns out the actual lyric is, ‘You and me end lessly…. Until today I thought it was, ‘You and me and let’s be… Groovin’. I was reading this morning about someone who for decades thought the Title line in The Young Rascals’ song, ‘Groovin’, was, ‘You and me and Leslie… Groovin’. But there are many many mispronunciations in song lyrics… and some of them we get very attached to. Unlike a lot of received wisdom, I believe that’s a good rule of thumb. It’s a songwriting truism that it’s almost always better to sing your words as you would pronounce them. As Immanuel Kant said, “From the crooked timber of humanity, nothing straight was ever made.” Nothing great that humans make is ever perfect, even if anyone could figure out what ‘perfect’ is.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |