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Hi I'm Benny. My passion for music and creativity stretches across multiple disciplines and art-forms. I am a founding member and songwriter / lap-slide guitarist for one of Australia's best and most bearded country-bluegrass-folk bands, THE GREEN MOHAIR SUITS. To date the Mohairs have released 4 full-length albums and tour both nationally and overseas.
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The other thing instructive about “message in a bottle” is that it is a good example of a song lyric entirely comprised of an extended metaphor - the song isn’t literally about a castaway lost at sea, but it completely commits to the metaphor right to the end of the song, never explicitly saying “and THAT (the cultural cliche we all recognise of the castaway sending a message in a bottle or trying to send an SOS) is a bit like being me, a lonely person unable to connect with others, and mistakenly believing I’m the only one who feels that way”
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Edgar Allan Poe describes a similar backwards process in Philosophy of Composition using his poem The Raven as an example. Thank you for the video. Really great.
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I tend to do that quite a bit. in fact, I collect titles. i write them down in songbooks. I often have a page just full of titles waiting for ideas and every now and gain, when I am looking for an idea, I'll go through the titles to find something that fits or has appeal. A title can be a phrase I have heard or something that seems to carry something, meaning, something that often has a double meaning or is ambiguous. I find it saves a lot of headaches....often....not always!
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I’ve heard it said that most all musicians write from a melody or chord progression. Contrary to that idea is the lyricist, who starts with a lyrical idea and forms the song around that. You can do both, but Sting sounds like the latter.
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He starts with the title!? Holy shit! Brilliant! I never thought of that! 🙄
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Thanks for sharing this…and I LOVE the Sodajerker Podcast! So good, and so is yours!
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"Message in a Bottle" is slick because it plays with the idea of isolation without being on-the-nose about it. The song isn't literally about a shipwrecked person, but it leans into the whole feeling of solitude. It uses the whole message-sending thing as a big picture way of saying how it feels to be alone and shouting into the void, hoping someone will shout back. It skirts around stating the obvious and lets you know it's about reaching out when you're feeling solo, which, tbh, is pretty relatable for most of us.
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Absolutely fantastic! Thank you!
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This is excellently described and all you need on top off this is a good melody brilliant piece of work thank you fellow youtube
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It doesn’t always have be the title and/or refrain that comes first. I just finished a song with the first line “settle down..”. I then asked myself “Who are you talking to, and why do think they need to settle down”? The lyrics practically wrote themselves once I answered the question. I’m not disputing the idea of the video. I think it’s a great way to get started. I’m just suggesting the initial line doesn’t necessarily have to be the refrain. I’m glad I didn’t try to write my song with the refrain “settle down, settle down, settle down.”
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Really helpful, Sting is an incredible songwriter
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These are some great tips; thanks for sharing!
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Thank you for sharing.
Happy Songwriting!
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Very very helpful 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
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If I could record with him one time I would love to meet Sting. He is a beautiful person and artist.
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This has become my new favorite channel. I almost wonder If I'm allowed to learn these secrets.
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Great episode!
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I'll say this, I've never heard this explained so clearly in my life. Thank you so much! I will pass this information on.😊😊😊😊😊😊
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This was inspiring, Thank you ✌🏻
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5 months ago
I write songs in my dreams. I have to rush words into them before I forget the melody. I had a dream I was Sting's studio arranger, conducting a school choir for the chorus of his song. That was 40 years ago. I still remember the melody. I still dream new songs.
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