Image via WikipediaWe can all relate to that home town boy or girl artist that has been catapulted into stardom and fame, especially when their songs are so warm and easy to say, "hey i've felt that way too". What great songwriting comes down to is finding that exact point in each additional word that you use, and have the listener fall more and more in love with the "picture" you're painting.
To me, artists that utilize the story-telling sort of writing style have always been "hit material". Look at Johnny Cash or the classic song from Journey, "Don't Stop Believing". Heck, just li=ook at the whole genre of Blues!!! It's busting at the seams with
Listen to the song lyrics from her brand new song she sang LIVE at the MTV Video Music Awards:
"Who you are is not what you did or where you've been.
You'll have new septembers. Lines change like a river.
Today is never too late to be brand new."
HOW AWESOME IS THAT?! I can just hear Taylor answer Billy Joe Armstrong from Green Day. It's really an amazing thing to be able to write off of someone else's hit song. THAT, takes talent and a certain level of genius when it comes to finding the perfect words. When it all is said and done, artists like myself, my students, colleagues and Taylor Swift too - we're all people who communicate with 120% of our hearts. We put it in all that we do. ANd it shows - especially for Taylor this year at the 2010 VMAs! CONGRATS Miss Swift. :o)
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