More on music.

[spacebug]

I'm not so good with lyrics.

After never getting leads in musicals in high school or getting solos in choir as a kid, I'm coming to grips with the fact that when I put my mind to it and I'm not super scared to do it, that I can actually sing pretty well. That's a tricky one to overcome. But I also have just as difficult s time getting over the "having something to sing" part as the fear that is having your voice out there. I find the buffer of a physical instrument very comforting on stage- there's something extra naked about singing. So, my vocal stuff is often just textural- because I'm a musician and not a vocalist, I tend to dislike that words in songs most often become the focal point, especially to people who listen to words more than music. Which, I think, is most people.

But I woke up with the beginnings of lyrics in my head this morning.

We'll see what happens with that.

I have more to say, I think, but I need to find my shoes. And a hair tie. And go to work.

Comments

[spacebug.livejournal.com]

It's funny- I like the way lyrics can sound, but I don't want them to be what the whole thing is about, because it's not to me. And I feel like the music expresses more than I can with words, but I still have urges to use my voice as an instrument. Kind of a conundrum. I need my own crazy moon language or something, so that people won't listen, they'll listen, you know?

Anyway. :)

[sarendipatree.livejournal.com]

The best lyrics are those that don't mean the same thing the first time you hear them as the fourth or sixth. Definitely hard.