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Re: Making Michael: Inside the Career of Michael Jackson
Sigh. Not this again. I don't know why you are so hell bent on taking musical writing credits from MJ.
Was he just the lyricist on Who Is It, Will You Be There, Give In To Me, Dangerous, TDCAU, Earth Song, Heal The World, Black or White, Money, Morphine etc. etc? Who the heck then wrote those songs?
And even where he did not write the chords for a song but he did write the melody, melody is part of the MUSIC. What else melody would be? Lyrics? It is certainly a weird concept that a melody of a song is not music. :smilerolleyes:
melody
?m?l?di
noun
noun: melody; plural noun: melodies
a sequence of single notes that is musically satisfying; a tune.
"he picked out an intricate melody on his guitar"
synonyms: tune, music, air, strain, theme, subject, line, part, song, refrain, jingle, piece "he's playing the melody from that new film"
Also check out the synonyms with melody. Music is one synonym to it. So where does this idea come from that all of a sudden melody is not a part of the music and that it just means the lyrics? I start to feel like in the twilight zone.
Bernie Taupin was a poet and a lyricist. Period. He wasn't a musician, he didn't write the melody of a song, Elton John did.
MJ wrote the melody for most of his songs, even the ones where he got a musical base (eg. chords) from others.
Like said above we can say a song consists of three parts: melody, a musical background (such as chords) and lyrics. The former two are the MUSIC. So if MJ wrote the melody of a song that means he was a big part of writing the MUSIC. He wasn't just a lyricist. A song is nothing without the melody. When you sing along a song, you usually sing along with the melody of the song, not the chords in the background.
Just to show how off it is to make MJ out to be just some lyricist like Bernie Taupin. This is how Elton John and Taupin work together:
Tauping only writes lyrics. He doesn't write a melody. He just writes a poem basically. The music - including the melody - is then written by John.
That's the exact point I've be trying to point out on this thread. But some just can't get the distinction right in their heads. MJ was primarily a lyricist on most of post 80's tracks, why producers came up with the chords.
Sigh. Not this again. I don't know why you are so hell bent on taking musical writing credits from MJ.
Was he just the lyricist on Who Is It, Will You Be There, Give In To Me, Dangerous, TDCAU, Earth Song, Heal The World, Black or White, Money, Morphine etc. etc? Who the heck then wrote those songs?
And even where he did not write the chords for a song but he did write the melody, melody is part of the MUSIC. What else melody would be? Lyrics? It is certainly a weird concept that a melody of a song is not music. :smilerolleyes:
melody
?m?l?di
noun
noun: melody; plural noun: melodies
a sequence of single notes that is musically satisfying; a tune.
"he picked out an intricate melody on his guitar"
synonyms: tune, music, air, strain, theme, subject, line, part, song, refrain, jingle, piece "he's playing the melody from that new film"
- the aspect of musical composition concerned with the arrangement of single notes to form a satisfying sequence.
"her great gift was for melody" - the principal part in harmonized music.
"we have the melody and bass of a song composed by Strozzi"
Also check out the synonyms with melody. Music is one synonym to it. So where does this idea come from that all of a sudden melody is not a part of the music and that it just means the lyrics? I start to feel like in the twilight zone.
Bernie Taupin was a poet and a lyricist. Period. He wasn't a musician, he didn't write the melody of a song, Elton John did.
MJ wrote the melody for most of his songs, even the ones where he got a musical base (eg. chords) from others.
Like said above we can say a song consists of three parts: melody, a musical background (such as chords) and lyrics. The former two are the MUSIC. So if MJ wrote the melody of a song that means he was a big part of writing the MUSIC. He wasn't just a lyricist. A song is nothing without the melody. When you sing along a song, you usually sing along with the melody of the song, not the chords in the background.
Just to show how off it is to make MJ out to be just some lyricist like Bernie Taupin. This is how Elton John and Taupin work together:
The writing style that Elton John and Bernie Taupin use involves Taupin writing the lyrics on his own, and John then putting them to music, with the two never in the same room during the process. Taupin would write a set of lyrics, then mail them to John, wherever he was in the world, who would then lay down the music, arrange it, and record.[SUP][145][/SUP]
Tauping only writes lyrics. He doesn't write a melody. He just writes a poem basically. The music - including the melody - is then written by John.
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