It’s a little exciting, isn’t it? Lyric production using interviews and associative games

In the previous column, I recommended the so-called lyrics-first method of writing songs starting from the lyrics. This time, I’ll propose a concrete method.

All you need to prepare some "paper", "a pen"」, and "a smartphone"!

《Writing lyrics that can only be written by you》

The most important thing is to come up with a theme that no one has ever written about.

As a way to confirm this, we recommend that you copy and paste some of the lyrics you’ve created on your smartphone and search the Internet. If the lyrics you create have the same content or similar expressions as a famous artist, it means that the lyrics may be worn out.

Of course, the content itself may not be bad, and the sympathetic and inspired production is also wonderful. Even if the content is the same, it will be completely different if the tune, the instrument used, and the person singing are changed.

《How do I find the theme that I want to write about?》

This time, it will be a more concrete method from here.

A long time ago, there was a game called "Magical Banana" in one part of a TV program called "Magical Brain Power".
If you know it, you’re part of that generation,

"Banana" -> "Yellow" -> "Signal" -> "Road" -> "Asphalt", etc.../p>

It's a game where you listen to the word and list things that you can associate with, but when you write lyrics, you can produce a lot of parts (lyrical ideas) by playing this << word association game. There is no winning or losing in an associative game when producing lyrics. The key is how many parts (ideas) you get. It also leads to finding a theme to write about using the associative game.

Here, I would like to give an example of what I actually did before. I decided to write a seasonal single with the unit "Kimonoyan" to which I belong, and I was making a single called "Summer". This is the start of the associative game!

"Summer"-> "I want to be cool"-> "Horror movie"-> "Dracula"-> "Sucking blood"-> "Mosquito" ← Stop here! !

"Wait a minute? There aren’t that many songs with the theme of “mosquitoes”?" I discovered that it wasn't zero, but the number was small ..

From there, I also searched for some tips on mosquitoes.

・Eggs are laid in the presence of water
・Lifespan is about 10 days to 1 month when it becomes an adult
・Female sucks blood for spawning

I get itchy just by reading that (laughs). Rather, it is also an interesting tidbit about production that there are more G-chord songs, which I dislike even more.

I tried to write my thoughts briefly, but how was it?

I would be grateful if you could help me with the production with some kind of proposals.

[Kimonoyan [mosquito]]