Modern poetry and popular lyrics do have many similarities. Both break through the limitations of traditional meter in many ways, and are freer in form and content. In essence, lyrics also have the artistic qualities, expression techniques and emotional characteristics of poetry, but there is still a big difference between them and poetry. The main reason is that in order to be sung with the music, the lyrics must be affected and restricted by the music melody in terms of structure, language, rhythm, etc., and at the same time, it in turn restricts and affects the melody. Therefore, compared with modern poetry, pop lyrics have much less freedom and cannot be written as they please. Moreover, the language must be easy to understand, and try to avoid "abnormal meaning" caused by homophonic sounds; for example, if you always sing "You know I'm waiting for your mother (the original word is 'm')" in your heart, that feeling will be much more awkward. awkward. It was originally a very good song, but it was "ruined" because of a bad homophony.
Popular lyrics and modern poetry come from the same source, so writing good poetry is the basis for creating popular lyrics. The experience of poetry creation can also be of great help to the creation of lyrics. The most obvious one is that the creation of successful poetry can make a person's writing more concise, more accurate and more expressive, which will have a great impact on the creation of lyrics. promotion effect. There are three main features that distinguish poetry from other literary styles: the language is concise and more rhythmic, the expression technique is more powerful, and the structure is more rigorous. If poetry wants to be moving and expressive in a relatively small space, it cannot do without these three points, and the same goes for lyrics. Some friends’ works are almost as free as writing prose poems. Although they can express inner emotions vividly, the language is slow and repetitive, and even the rhythm and rhyme are not neat. Even if the content of such lyric works is very good and touching, it is difficult to Become a song.
It can be said that the first taboo in lyric creation is that the language is not concise and graceful; the second taboo is that the rhythm and rhyme do not match; the third taboo is that the language is profound and obscure or simply preachy; the fourth taboo is that the structure is chaotic ; The fifth taboo is that it is mediocre and has no climax; the sixth taboo is that there is bad homophony that destroys but does not build.