There was a time when music and lyrics, called jingles, would be specifically written for products advertised on TV. Although there are still advertisers who hire songwriters to write specific music and lyrics for their particular product, many have switched to licensing popular songs to use in their TV ads. This is because many people are already familiar with the music and lyrics of these songs, so an instant, pleasant association is create (more…)
Whoever said that advertizing is the new Verse forgot that song Words can also role as Poetry, peculiarly to the young (or the comparatively young) attenders of these songs. In fact, poems were songs initially even before they came to be known as actual verse forms. In many civilisations around the world, the first form of Poetry were sang and not written. This way, people for past times think the “lyrics” even the need to record them (since ther (more…)
Mother son wedding songs Father daughter wedding songs First dance song I’ll Always Be Your Mother is a new mother and son wedding song that I wrote for my son’s wedding in 2006.
When my son told me he was getting married, I knew I wanted to write a song for him and his new bride. My intention was to give him something special and personal. As I started to write the song, it became more obvious to (more…)
Falling in love is perhaps one of the most beautiful experiences in one’s life and songs are perhaps the ultimate medium through which this feeling can be expressed beautifully. Now love songs are one genre of music that clearly reflects the feelings of the writer and the singer. Someone rightly said that to sing love songs or to write love songs, one needs to be in love to get the real feel of it and express it in the song. When a person is in (more…)