Joined: 26 Aug 2010 Age: 69 Gender: Male Posts: 35,189 Location: temperate zone
29 Apr 2020, 10:19 pm
Okay...you're singing about being a vegan, ergo about you loving vegetables, but then it switches topic to being about vegetables loving each other. You need to tweek the lyrics so its just one or the other topic, or so that there is a better connection between the two topics.
Or that's my peeling. And that's life...in the slaw lane!
That's interesting feedback. I guess the vegetables-falling-for-each-other is just a visual side plot, so folk don't have to look at my face for the whole video
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06 May 2020, 9:10 pm
naturalplastic wrote:
Okay...you're singing about being a vegan, ergo about you loving vegetables, but then it switches topic to being about vegetables loving each other. You need to tweek the lyrics so its just one or the other topic, or so that there is a better connection between the two topics.
Really depends on the genre you're performing in. When I write punk songs they tend to have much more narrowly focused lyrics than when I rap because the latter embraces wordplay and free association and the former usually doesn't unless you're new wave-ish. Then again, most hardcore punk songs often have 4 or 8 bars of relatively sparse lyrics vs. a single rap verse of 12 or 16 bars so obviously the more paper you need to fill, the less focused your material needs to be.
Personally I prefer my vegan music to sound more like:
I just can't run in circles picking invisible change off of the floor to your song MrMensch, although I can tell that wasn't the goal so it's not a significant criticism.
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