For your next EP, LP, triple record…for your next project record, what if you repeated the same lyric in each song?
In some way…maybe it gets sung in one, whispered in the next, then spoken, spoken by someone else, done with tons of vocal effects…use your imagination.
But you get it, the same phrase shows up in each of these songs.
It might help a cool way to communicate the theme of the project.
And if you’re doing a project (as opposed to singles), I’d argue it should have a theme.
And if you have a theme, it bears repeating. It bears driving home.
***At this point, for those who are scoffing at this idea thinking it’s pretty stupid/elementary/calculated/trying too hard, there is an album that came out this year by a band that you absolutely know of and respect who did something like this. And I’m not telling you who it was. If you buy me a cup of coffee I’ll tell you.
****And now at this point, for those of you who are scoffing because this is no longer an original idea so you’re definitely not going to do it because you only do things that have never been done before…I can’t help you.
p.s. And maybe it’s not whether or not you employ this idea…but whether or not you COULD. As in, the distinct theme is there just waiting to be repeated in each song if you decide to.
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