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To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.
Jason Newsted
You
Song
First
Looking
Before
Other
Plenty
Kind
Insight
Some
Songs
Look
Well
Where
Places
Meaning
Really
Pop
Should
Pop Song
Pop Songs
Start
By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.
Jay-Z
Time
Memory
Song
Words
First
Think
Paper
Pen
Record
Lay
Had
Got
Been
Tape
Trained
Listen
Just
Them
Album
Need
By The Time
I think the thing that keeps us motivated is challenging ourselves to see if we can be better than we've been before and seeing if we can stumble upon a magic that wasn't there before - whether it's a song, a performance, or a track that lights us up the way the first few records did.
Jay DeMarcus
Song
Better
First
Stumble
Before
Few
Think
Way
Ourselves
See
Seeing
Magic
Records
Performance
Lights
Track
Motivated
Been
Up
Than
Did
Whether
Us
Challenging
Keeps
Thing
I think the simple message of that song is what attracted me to 'Every Day.' It's one of those simple yet profound lyrics.
Jay DeMarcus
Day
Me
Every Day
Song
Simple
Every
Think
Lyrics
Those
Attracted
Message
Profound
There's nothing worse than looking out and seeing some guy with his arms crossed while you're singing your heart out on a new song, and he's going, 'When are they going to do 'Me and My Gang?''
Jay DeMarcus
Me
You
Heart
Song
Looking
Singing
Nothing
Worse
Out
Seeing
Some
Crossed
Guy
He
New
Arms
His
Than
Going
While
Your
Gang
Sometimes, you try something, and it works in terms of success. That doesn't mean you like what is a hit. Sometimes you like the most obscure song on your album.
Jean-Michel Jarre
Success
You
Song
Sometimes
Try
Something
Obscure
Like
Most
Terms
Hit
Mean
Your
Works
Album
I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said.
Jeff Ament
Song
Down
Everything
Someone
Write
Wrote
Talking
Said
Just
Room
I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.
Jeff Beck
Song
Care
Job
Every
Rules
About
Properly
Fact
Least
Doing
Times
In Fact
Break
Then
If the song makes it and people like it, then I guess that's all that matters, really.
Jeff Beck
People
Song
Matters
Guess
Like
Makes
Then
Really
A song just doesn't have verse-chorus-verse. It could just be one line. There are Chinese love songs that you have to learn one melody for a three-minute thing, and nothing ever repeats. I like that.
Jeff Buckley
Love
You
Song
Love Songs
Just Be
Nothing
Melody
One Line
Could
Songs
Like
Learn
Line
Repeats
Just
Chinese
Ever
Thing
I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.
Jeff Foxworthy
Song
Words
Everything
About
Deleted
Know
Island
Brain
Theme
Theme Song
Why
Kept
Whether it's a song you write or a television show or a movie or professional wrestling, there are three components to IP law. There is publishing, there are writers, and there are performers. The publisher is always the owner.
Jeff Jarrett
You
Song
Law
Three
Television
Television Show
Components
Wrestling
Write
Writers
Performers
Always
IP
Owner
Movie
Whether
Show
Professional
Publisher
Publishing
I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.
Jeff Lynne
Love
Song
Try
Nice
Changes
Find
Shape
Knock
How
Trying
Then
Chord
Start
When you do a song new live on stage, it's kind of a bit weird until it gets worn in, you know, like oiled up a bit. It's still a little bit stiff until you really thrashed at it for a few weeks.
Jeff Lynne
You
Song
Few
Stage
Live
Worn
Bit
Kind
Weeks
Weird
New
Like
Know
Until
Stiff
Still
Up
Gets
Little
Little Bit
Really
I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.
Jeff Tweedy
Work
Myself
Song
Thought
Important
Some
Put
Takes
Maintain
Make
Audience
Always
Across
Connection
I always like Madonna; any Madonna song is good for me.
Jenna Dewan
Good
Me
Song
Madonna
Like
Always
Any
My first go at drinking did not go so well. I ended up getting sick in front of everybody. You know that Ginuwine song 'Pony'? It was playing at the party while I was getting sick. My entire senior year, everyone sang that around me. For a year. I would like that erased from my memory.
Jenna Dewan
Me
You
Memory
Song
Drinking
First
Party
Year
Sick
Everybody
Everyone
Would
Entire
Like
Know
Well
Around
Go
Erased
Up
Did
Ended
Front
Getting
Senior
Senior Year
While
Pony
Sang
Playing
I always like Madonna; any Madonna song is good for me. Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school. It's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.
Jenna Dewan
Good
Me
Song
School
Old
Rare
Nowadays
Madonna
Pick
Like
Always
Go
Very
Jackson
Any
Janet Jackson
Old School
I've actually performed at Gay Pride in Atlanta three times in my career. I've always had a large gay following, particularly in the lesbian community. I am grateful for that. To me, it means my music transcends categories. It also means that I'm a cute girl singing a rock song in an alto voice!
Jennifer Nettles
Music
Me
Gay
Grateful
Song
Pride
Girl
Three
Singing
Cute
Community
Lesbian
Atlanta
Following
Voice
Had
Performed
Categories
Particularly
Also
Alto
Rock
Always
Am
Times
Transcends
Cute Girl
Means
Large
Actually
Career
In a song, you have to have a lyric that gives us new ideas on how to live, a lyric that makes us feel, and a melody that gives you some kind of body response and emotional response.
Jennifer Warnes
You
Song
Live
Lyric
Melody
Response
Kind
Some
Gives
Emotional
Feel
New
Ideas
Makes
How
New Ideas
Us
Body
My mother had a great vinyl collection, and she was constantly playing female singer-songwriters. I first learned about classic song structures by listening to them, and Laura Nyro particularly stood out. Her voice was outside what you'd usually hear on the radio; that really appealed to me.
Jenny Lewis
Great
Me
You
Song
Mother
Listening
First
Out
Collection
Laura
Constantly
Classic
About
Structures
Voice
Outside
Had
Particularly
She
Learned
Female
Hear
Stood
Them
Really
Radio
Appealed
Her
Vinyl
Playing
When I'm sick of myself, and when I don't know what to say as a solo artist, I can write a song for a movie. When I don't know where to turn musically, being in a band - Rilo Kiley or Jenny & Johnny - the collaborative nature is really exciting.
Jenny Lewis
Myself
Nature
Song
Band
Sick
Collaborative
Say
Musically
Solo
Solo Artist
Johnny
Write
Exciting
Know
Artist
Being
Where
Movie
Turn
Really
The Rilo Kiley song 'A Better Son/Daughter' is my most requested song - especially for people who are at the age I was when I wrote it. It's sort of a mid-twenties lament.
Jenny Lewis
Age
People
Song
Better
Most
Wrote
Sort
Lament
Who
It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever.
Jenny Lewis
You
Song
Amazing
Films
Circumstances
Some
Pretty
Someone
Gives
Write
Songs
Written
Couple
Accepted
Left
Up
Times
Forever
Get
Ended
Any
Any Circumstances
Then
Disney
Even
Actually
Assignment
My aim is for every song to have a purpose - for you to be able to say, 'This song is about this.' But love and heartbreak are some of the most abstract subjects.
Jens Lekman
Love
You
Song
Every
Aim
Say
Able
Some
About
Purpose
Abstract
Most
Subjects
Heartbreak
Even if I wrote a song about math or animals or whatever, there would still be the question, 'Why did you write about that? And what does it say about you?'
Jens Lekman
You
Song
Animals
Whatever
Say
Would
About
Write
Wrote
Does
Still
Math
Question
Did
Even
Why
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