{"id":2240,"date":"2009-07-12T11:13:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T15:13:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-06T15:08:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T15:08:47","slug":"last-man-standing-the-lazy-lyricist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-the-lazy-lyricist\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: The Lazy Lyricist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<div><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>My number one pet peeve regarding lyrics is when the songwriter \u201crhymes\u201d a word with the same exact word.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, I was listening to some <strong>Junior Brown<\/strong> and I heard the following couplet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOne of us will have to give, or there\u2019ll be nothing left to say,<br \/>\nSo Darlin\u2019 I\u2019ll do anything you say\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, I really like Junior Brown but I have to call him out on this. Junior: It\u2019s not a rhyme if it\u2019s the same frigging word.  Get a rhyming dictionary if you have to for chrissake, but rhyming \u201csay\u201d with \u201csay\u201d doesn\u2019t count.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m looking for more examples of this egregiously lazy technique (or lack thereof).<\/p>\n<p>Please ignore the artistic merits of lyrics and just focus on the \u201crhyme.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My number one pet peeve regarding lyrics is when the songwriter \u201crhymes\u201d a word with the same exact word. Last night, I was listening to some Junior Brown and I heard the following couplet: \u201cOne of us will have to give, or there\u2019ll be nothing left to say, So Darlin\u2019 I\u2019ll do anything you say\u201d <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-the-lazy-lyricist\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[55,204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}