![]() ![]() A good song produces proportionate feelings relative to a given matter or experience. ![]() To contrast that, consider your favorite early Beatles song and how proportionate the feelings of young love are with the lyrics and melody at hand. It’s ridiculous because it produces a feeling disproportionate to the truth that is being considered in that classic hymn. ![]() Try singing the words to the hymn Amazing Grace to the tune of Happy Birthday To You. I use the phrases “worthy of” and “proportionate to” because it shaves off a bit of the idiosyncratic lens through which we often judge the goodness or badness of a song. We’ve all heard bad songs and many of us have written them. A song which combines a feeling that, for one reason or another, is not worthy of or proportionate to the matter at hand is called a bad song. Generally speaking, lyrics reference topics and melodies reference feelings (though a beautifully constructed lyric can reference feelings as much as any beautiful melody). A song is a composition made up of lyrics and music, with the intent of the lyrics being sung, for the purpose of producing a proportionate feeling or emotion in relation to a particular matter. ![]()
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