[ SECRET POST #3273 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3273 ⌋

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Kind of based on #1, but also something I've always wondered

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen people assume songwriters are always writing about themselves specifically. But this confuses me, because isn't that kind of like saying every writer's book is about themselves, even if it isn't? I'm pretty sure Agatha Christie didn't know anyone named Miss Marple.

(If they've made it clear in interviews, that's another thing - and maybe Adele has, I dunno, I'm talking more generally.)

Re: Kind of based on #1, but also something I've always wondered

[(Anonymous)]

"..  people assume songwriters are always writing about themselves specifically."

That assumption is primarily gendered, too. You'll get those comments about a female songwriter way more often, than about a male one.

Re: Kind of based on #1, but also something I've always wondered

[(Anonymous)]

Really? Do you have any actual proof of that? Because I can think of many, many male singers that people say this about. Like 90% of rappers. That guy who made the song Delilah (he admitted eventually it was true). Phil Collins has several songs like this.

Re: Kind of based on #1, but also something I've always wondered

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Re: Kind of based on #1, but also something I've always wondered

[(Anonymous)]

My knee-jerk assumption is that guys ARE singing about feelings they've had (if not specific relationshios/events) but not in the case of acts like One Direction.

Re: Kind of based on #1, but also something I've always wondered

[raspberryrain]

In Adele's case, I believe there was a breakup that inspired a previous album. But no, signers and songwriters generally aren't writing about themselves. I wonder if musicals, where characters do sing about themselves, are to blame for this confusion.

Re: Kind of based on #1, but also something I've always wondered

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - Maybe? On one hand, I'd kind of like to think people would know the difference. (And the singers are still singing about characters, not themselves as people.) On the other hand, there are singers who've branched into their own albums, which can cause confusion - I always assumed "Let's Get Physical" was from Grease, for instance, when it's not. Not that I thought Olivia Newton John was singing it about herself, but I thought maybe she was singing it as Sandy.

Re: Kind of based on #1, but also something I've always wondered

[badass_tiger]

I think it's because people generally see songwriting as a way of self-expression. People commonly say that playing musical instruments is a good way of letting out your feelings, so that's probably why people generalise that to all songwriters.

Re: Kind of based on #1, but also something I've always wondered

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like that's because most pop music isn't about telling a story, and if it has a message at all, it comes across as a very personal one? Or it's so generalized that it's meant to relate to as many people as possible, I guess (which probably includes the singer).

Re: Kind of based on #1, but also something I've always wondered

[(Anonymous)]

Well, if you think about the nature of medium, it kind of makes sense--an author isn't really present in the text in the very tangible (?) way a singer is. Like, we all know the author wrote the book but in practice they're just a name on the front cover, and then there's the text; you're not thinking about the author the whole time you're reading. When you listen to a song, you're literally listening to the singer "talking" to you--telling you, in their voice, how they feel/what happened to them/what the think of you.