tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36195114.post116231968624779772..comments2023-06-18T13:17:12.184+00:00Comments on Music Around The World: Darenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12691040298320629603noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36195114.post-1162327938011450332006-10-31T20:52:00.000+00:002006-10-31T20:52:00.000+00:00Hey D, interesting blog you’ve got here… song-writ...Hey D, interesting blog you’ve got here… song-writing in the raw, with a bit of a travelogue thrown in for good measure… all you need now is a gossip column for the Heat readers out there! <BR/><BR/>I just wanted to comment on your ‘health warning’ – surely the point of art of any kind is to provoke a reaction. And if you can generalise enough that your songs could reflect anybody’s life experience, whilst still maintaining a level of believable emotion, then you’ve potentially got something people will want to listen to more than once. <BR/><BR/>I saw the David Hockney Portraits exhibition at the NPG the other day and although most of his pictures are of his immediate circle, the emotion in their faces was intimate in the broadest sense – boredom, intrigue, devotion, indifference, sadness, humour – very powerful stuff and several of them moved me, even though I’ve no idea who those people are. It’s the same with great pop songs too; the one’s we cherish are the one’s we can relate to, and usually on one of the enduring themes of the human condition. <BR/><BR/>Just as well we’re all messed up about the same stuff :-) PxxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com