I’ve found it really easy to write about music journalism, but then really difficult to write about music itself. I just can’t seem to get it right; to do the music/musicians justice. I feel like it’s too multi-layered and complex to be summed up concisely by a lone writer with only a single perspective. But reading Nathan Wiseman’s article Writing Rock: A Psychogeography of Pop (2004) has helped me understand a bit more about constructing a piece of writing about music. The idea that in order to write music one has to write in a poetic style was new to me, but makes a lot of sense – maybe poetry is the only way to begin to describe music. But I’m still unconvinced that a piece of writing can totally encapsulate the feeling/meaning/intent of a song – it can only reflect the listener’s perspective of the song. In one way, I think you could never really ask a musician what their song is “about”, because there is no one answer, it’s up for interpretation.
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