There is an interesting article in USA Today about an elementary school teacher who helps kids learn lyrics. Because it’s an election year, the teacher Linda White is educating kids through lyrics about suffrage and voting. In fact, she composed the suffrage songs herself, so there’s no confusion about where or not she is indeed [...]
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According to the Forbes 20 Under 25 list of top earning young superstars, Avril Lavigne and Carrie Underwood were two of the 20, who are under 25-years-old to make the list. Yes, the list was littered with Hollywood actors and sports superstars, but Lavigne and Underwood were no underdogs as they both pulled in respectable [...]
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You can’t stop hip-hop is the message being spoken by rappers on Capitol Hill. In a House Committee hearing reminiscent of the days of Elvis Presley and the Beatles, rapper David Banner is defiant about cleaning up the lyrics in rap music. Apparently, Banner thinks the government should clean up the neighborhoods where drugs and [...]
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McDonald’s Corporation has caused a tornado of controversy by dropping rapper Twista from a 10-city concert tour because of what they are calling “derogatory lyrics”. The fast food giant has decided to drop the potty mouth rapper because of explicit language and references to drugs in the lyrics. Twista is known for his hits “Slow [...]
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I’m not going to get all Don McLean on you and pretend I’m on a cruise ship singing drunken phrases of “American Pie,” but to some who listen to music and radio on the Internet, this is indeed the day the music died. Many Internet radio stations are observing a day of silence in protest [...]
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In a article on TakeOne by George Hawrylenko, he talks about all the misspoken words by the lyrically challenged at karaoke bars. Hawrylenko takes a comical look at many of the misheard lyrics that have been in turn spoke or sung at late night, drunken song mashings. One of my favorites was the misheard lyrics [...]
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An article in The Columbian online newspaper out of Vancouver, Washington tells the tale of a teacher who used to be a lyric writer who uses some of his old lyrics to teach high school kids about writing. Apparently, teacher Randy Cate used to write lyrics for Ted Nugent, Dionne Warwick and others. Mr. Cate [...]
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Last week I had blogged about how Bob Dylan was overlooked with his 2 Grammy wins as the new kids in the industry received all the hype. Now, on President’s Day I would like to talk about another old timer who also received 2 Grammy’s and was overlooked as well. One of the greatest lyricists [...]
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A story in the Gothamist talks about how a songwriter may have killed his girlfriend and left a trail of lyrics implicating him in the dastardly deed. According to the Gothamist, the personal trainer, who was also the lead singer in a group called Monolith, gave 50 pages of lyrics to prosecutors with violent and [...]
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The George Harrison handwritten lyrics to “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” from the Beatles White Album will go on sale in the U. S. on Monday. Apparently, the handwritten lyrics are expected to fetch in the neighborhood of $780,000. At the bottom of the page are the words, “The band leader said he ain’t playin”, [...]
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