Rock requires rhyming. Relinquishing rhyme requires retaining regular rhythm regardless.<\/p>\n
Ok, I\u2019ll stop.<\/p>\n
My point is that any rule, such as the one stipulating that rock lyrics must use end-rhyme, can seem like a straitjacket, and it will lead you to write things you wouldn\u2019t write if the rule were not there. <\/p>\n
And it\u2019s too easy to lean on examples you\u2019ve heard before, which leads to hackneyed lyrics that are just there because you need to fill up the space with words if you want to sing rock music. It\u2019s often been noted that English is not a great language for rhymes, compared to Romance languages, but that\u2019s no excuse for laziness.<\/p>\n
One of my least favorite rhymes is found you\/around you<\/em>. It usually takes the form of “I\u2019m so happy that I\u2019ve found you\/I\u2019ll build my world around you,” but perhaps the most famous version of this rhyme is in The Foundations<\/strong>‘ song:<\/p>\n NuHhLiRkxNM]<\/p>\n I\u2019ve never liked this song, though I\u2019ve got to admit that\u2019s a pretty cool video. One of things I had problems with was the “now that I\u2019ve found you\/I can let you go” concept. Looking up the lyrics now, I see that it\u2019s “I can\u2019t<\/em> let you go,” and suddenly the whole song seems too much like a domestic abuse scenario.<\/p>\n Another rhyme I hate is change\/rearrange<\/em>. <\/p>\n s4CmRB0hed8]<\/p>\n In this case it\u2019s made more annoying by the chaayaange\/rearraayaange<\/em> pronunciation. Changing the world is a tall order, especially for a scrawny English dude with such elementary skills on the piano.<\/p>\n We had a thread recently where we talked about the lazy lyricist who rhymed a word with itself<\/a>. That’s bad, but reaching into the grab bag of pre-existing obvious rhymes is just as bad.<\/p>\n What are some of your least favorite hackneyed rhymes?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rock requires rhyming. Relinquishing rhyme requires retaining regular rhythm regardless. Ok, I\u2019ll stop. My point is that any rule, such as the one stipulating that rock lyrics must use end-rhyme, can seem like a straitjacket, and it will lead you to write things you wouldn\u2019t write if the rule were not there. And it\u2019s too […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}