Love and above

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I wanted to see how many songs ( roughly) have this cliche

Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah love
Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah above

seems like alot to me. I'm sick of it. Get over yourselves people
I'm just playfully ranting but it needs to stop please
 
Hey man, listen to Bob Dylan!!! His lyrics are full of those cliches. It doesn't matter as long as you've got a good story to tell. Rhyme is just a tool that you should use to your advantage. If it comes out that way, it's just OK.
 
Yep, I agree. There are crafty individuals who are capable of pulling it off. Some people try too hard I believe. And that's not always a bad thing.
 
To my ears, even a bad cliche can sound poignant if its sung from the heart. For example, if it is delivered in such a way that shows the singer has discovered the notion for the first time in his or her experience, not knowing that what they're actually expressing is an old cliche.

Hmmm - I hope this makes sense.
 
This is all very true. Has anyone had the pink elephant trick done on them? It's where someone says "don't mentally picture what I'm about to tell you" and then they say pink elephant and by god the first thing you picture in your head is a freaken pink elephant? Now that I mentioned the above love/above combo hopefully (and you will) you'll notice what I'm talking about. I think someone in another post mentioned that there're not many words that ryhme with love. This may be just the case. So most of the time whenever you use love in a stanza you would naturally want love at the end where you can pronounce and sustain it or what have you. Then you're like &^%$, Now I have to rhyme something with the word love and I don't have many options. What I was originally trying to get at is the fact that people obviously do this and all end up with the same two lines in their songs. Now what you described Ben is totally awsome and no one on the planet can argue that fact but I think you all were thinking of the cliche definition that means overused where as I was using the definition of cliche as a person or character whose behavior is predictable or superficial. Meaning that you kinda know that the next line is gonna end in above(or cove,dove) It's not their fault at all, they're limited I guess.
 
Point for all the lyricists out there - some words are difficult to sing at the end of lines, love is one of them, singers often find it hard to get the "v" sound out unless another word follows to frame it.

Try it - try singing just "love" and then sing "love me".

Just a thought.

Actually there are countless near rhymes for love anyway, so long as you don't suscribe to the Jimmy Webb perfect rhyme only viewpoint. I might try it with Kalashnikov soon :) (Just realised this is a piece of cake - you just need a song with lots of Russians in it!)
 
I have a mental list of rhymes I try to avoid, and this is one of them. You know, you don't have to have an amazing clever new rhyme on every line, but there are some that are just so over-used as to be painful to hear. "you" and "true", "trust" and "must", "baby" and "maybe", etc.

I think what really bugs me is when people add needless words to the end of a line just to make it rhyme. Phrases like "you know what I mean", or "It's true" or stuff like that.

But hey, we all start somewhere. Click here if you want to hear me rhyme "schwarzenegger" and "pull your leg here". I love rhyming things like that.
 
"I'm on my knees
I'm beggin' you please..."

I will mutilate (with extreme prejudice) the next person who does this.
 
"Keep it simple". I've heard that a thousand times.

It's how they are used in the sentence that really matters.
 
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