Writing a song that will later become a hit is easy on the one hand, and very difficult on the other. Being a poet doesn't mean being a songwriter. These are completely different concepts. If you have been writing poems for a long time that won the love of numerous readers, published in poetry collections and performed at poetry evenings with your works, this does not mean at all that you will write a hit right away. Songwriters live in a slightly different dimension. Undoubtedly, rhythm is the most important for a songwriter as well as for a poet. The rhyme comes next in importance, but the songwriter needs it less. A poor or even banal rhyme is permissible in a song, while in a quality poem it is bad manners. The song is written in two ways.
Writing lyrics to music
In the world of songwriters, this is called writing "for fish." This spelling is the most popular and widespread. The songwriter is given a ready-made melody with or without a voice line, he listens, reads the mood, comes up with a theme, if it has not been set earlier, and writes the text. This option is good because the music itself will tell you what to write about.
The most important thing is that the text should be perfectly smooth to the music, without roughness. When you have written a song, sing it to the music, if you want to replace something, then this place is a failure, think again. The song should be sung easily, without difficult pronunciation and speech stumbling. It would be nice to show it to a singer friend so that he would try to perform it.
Writing the lyrics for a song, for which later composers write music
This option is more difficult, but creative freedom is not limited by anything. Choose any theme, style, rhythm and go! The most important thing to consider when writing a song text is the simplicity of its perception and pronunciation, as well as its accessibility to any listener. Yes, yes, no matter how strange it sounds, but that song becomes a hit, which carries public problems, understandable to everyone, and which both a businessman and a cleaning lady can feel on themselves. No wonder they say that all ingenious is simple! Avoid specific, professional terminology, complex logical chains and phrases in the text. When people listen to a hit song, they don't want to think, they want to get emotion.
Tips for those who dream of writing a hit
Listen to as many hit songs as possible. Sometimes it is difficult to understand why this song became a hit, but people sing it around every corner.
1) Rule # 1 - the song should be memorized quickly. Not the whole, of course, but a few lines from the chorus. Millions of people hum: "Raspberries, raspberries, such parties" or "enough, that's enough, I'm not in pain anymore" and do not know the rest of the words. But these two lines are enough to make the song “stuck” in the minds of the listeners. With this in mind, modern songs are written.
2) The phrase or sentence for the chorus. Most often this phrase is the name of the song, it is repeated many times and easily “settles” in the memory of the audience. Examples of hit combinations: "Love is a beauty", "The best friends of girls are diamonds", "Accountant, my dear accountant", "Oh, God, what a man!" and many others. Before you start writing a song, find this phrase and build the rest of the text around it.
3) In the songs, touch on topics and problems that are clear to everyone and everyone. It is clear that millions have been written about love songs, but this theme has always been, is and will be the most popular, demanded and immortal.
