i haven't made a song in a long time but i want to talk about something some people have asked me about music
sometimes a person will ask me why i don't make any happy songs ok i want to talk about this i feel that happiness is a lack of conflict, with it being a lack of conflict- i feel there isn't much to say so basically i just feel there is nothing to really expound upon if you are happy however i do think there are some great happy songs... the primary one that i feel is a perfect example is prince's "let's go crazy" i feel that song really captures happiness in a unique way.. its not so much "happy" it feels more like "freedom" to me.. which i think is a great angle to take if you're trying to make a song that represents happiness to some extent in the song prince says: "feelin so excited/ don't know why/ maybe its because/ we're all gnna die/" this imo accomplishes a lot and keeps the song from being a one dimensional "i'm happy" type of thing.. here you have a few diff things A. "feeling excited" which helps set the tone B. "we're all gnna die" which is morbid and sort of like saying, "i'm not happy because everything is perfect, i am just happy in this moment without regard to the forecast" ... which hearkens back to what i said about the song feeling like "freedom" because its like he's free from feeling a certain way about circumstance.... it feels like he is "thumbing his nose" at bad news- also, so its like he's displaying a backbone "are we gnna let the elevator bring us down? OH NO LETS GO! let's go crazy, let's get nuts" prince really captured something there the way he did this to me is like a perfect way to do happiness and keep it rooted in reality spineless people for the most part aren't going to be happy in life.. those who see things yet keep the faith are able to proceed with strength so yeah i just wanted to talk about why i never really do happy songs and also talk about how i believe happy songs can work.. i do one day want to do a happy song but i would likely take a few hints from "let's go crazy" to make it work
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