hello lyricists of cohost. how do you even do that. also how do you sing them? i think words are the next big thing in music, i just need help figuring that out
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i usually pick a subject or situation or topic i wanna talk about and write about it. sometimes i make it rhyme, sometimes multiple times, sometimes even in the same line, sometimes it doesn't rhyme at all. better lyricism comes with time as you learn what you like or don't like in your lyrics, and improve on that self-critique. here's a song with lyrics i'm proud of, about people turning trans people into pillars of salt for daring to not be prim, proper and perfectly unproblematic.
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maybe it'll have to be a practice thing for me then.. my other issue is that reading lyrics makes me cringe, even if they come from a song i love. so i guess i'd have to get over that too
ayeaaap. had to get over that to start really being able to appreciate lyricism and poetry fully, tbh, but so worth it. fwiw, another great example of great lyricism is vylet pony's "Antonymph" from her album CUTIEMARKS. It might come across as nostalgia-bait and kinda on-the-nose, but that's sort of the point; it's an anti-cringe anthem and it's encouraging others to just let their hearts free from the shackles and constraints of "civilized, intellectual society." like fuck it, go be cringe! that's what life is all about, being cringe and being proud of that shit!
you ain't even gotta say much of anything to make a good song either, one Italian musician made a song of complete gibberish and it went #1 in the country. you don't gotta shift the political tectonic plates to write lyrics, just write what you know and care about - even if it's about bionicles or something