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Originally Posted by right-track
Got nothing against well written lyrics with a poetic slant.
The problem I do have is when those lyrics are badly written, ooze pretentiousness, or even worse, both.
I've seen far too many members here straining badly to pull off the poetic turn of phrase (see aforementioned member in my previous post) and fail miserably.
Far better to write simply, well.
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I can understand the angst love song songs though, when I was 16, pretty average lad life, football, school etc.
Met a girl it all changed, a while down the line it ended. You wanna get it out your system so you write pretentious s
hite and you think it's good because it reflects how you're feeling.. then you grow up a bit and realise no ones wants to hear about it. Maybe the odd song as an ode to your first love, or what you think is your first love. But some of these emo kids, it's every song where love has a simarly, a metaphor they wondered what they were fighting for, she crushed me, like a rose, just like jesus our love rose. etc.
Pathetic attempts = you may as well just not even bother. If I do something crap that I initially think is good, I feel embarrassed as I scrap it.
