The framing at the end is great! Comedy song or wistful childhood memory... vary degree of tell and show accordingly. As regards fancy language. Besides consideration of the casual audience it's worth considering the setting of the events. Or the character's probable vocabulary. Droplets probably don't feature in the vocabulary of that working class man but a pretentious, highly educated college student who fancies themselves a writer and thinks the world is ending along with her relational break-up? ....might be a different story.
That's a great point! I think about this a lot when it comes to artists like The Decemberists - Colin Meloy loves to use historical points of view, so his lyrics are often full of really pretentious sounding language, but it totally works with the characters and settings.
Lovley video. Making me reflect on our old songwriting classes together analyzing Leonard Cohen and David Bowie lyrics, hope all is well!
Aww, you’re making me super nostalgic! 😭 I miss you and hope all is well!
The framing at the end is great! Comedy song or wistful childhood memory... vary degree of tell and show accordingly. As regards fancy language. Besides consideration of the casual audience it's worth considering the setting of the events. Or the character's probable vocabulary. Droplets probably don't feature in the vocabulary of that working class man but a pretentious, highly educated college student who fancies themselves a writer and thinks the world is ending along with her relational break-up? ....might be a different story.
That's a great point! I think about this a lot when it comes to artists like The Decemberists - Colin Meloy loves to use historical points of view, so his lyrics are often full of really pretentious sounding language, but it totally works with the characters and settings.