"Suitcase" - PRE-FIGHT DISCUSSION/ARGUING
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"Suitcase" - PRE-FIGHT DISCUSSION/ARGUING
Anyone interested in talking out their creative process or having a brainstorming thread?
Let's rip this suitcase open and see what is inside.
There's a good start.
What's in the suitcase?
Let's rip this suitcase open and see what is inside.
There's a good start.
What's in the suitcase?
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Re: "Suitcase"
excellent point. The suitcase is symbolism. Someone is leaving someplace and going somewhere else - moving on, saying goodbye.
Could it not just as easily represent new beginnings tho?
Could it not just as easily represent new beginnings tho?
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Re: "Suitcase"
I think the first thing we need to identify is why we are singing, then what the suitcase represent will fall into personal context
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Re: "Suitcase"
I am starting my worksheet here and I keep wanting to ask the question 'what is in the suitcase?' Answering that question will tell us whose suitcase it is and where they are going, what they are preparing to encounter.
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Re: "Suitcase"
A lot of songfighters try to think outside the box (no pun intended). Finding (and jealously guarding) an original slant is part of the fun.
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Re: "Suitcase"
Good idea. I am definitely typing 'what's in your suitcase' as we speak to see what comes up.AJOwens wrote:Google images is just full of interesting stuff.
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AJOwens wrote:A lot of songfighters try to think (no pun intended). Finding (and jealously guarding) an original slant is part of the fun.
I understand wanting to keep your own intellectual property but I would not consider a brainstorming session intellectual property.
Why else have we come here if not to share ideas?
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Re: "Suitcase"
To share songs. It's a fight. Collaborate with someone if you want to share ideas. And I'm not jealously gaurding anything. But I'd guard that cool suitcase amp if it were mine!
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All I can think of is Glenn Case's Sweet Canadian Mullet.
CHECK OUT MY SUITCASE!! CHECK OUT MY SUITCASE!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIIFfCQvSus
CHECK OUT MY SUITCASE!! CHECK OUT MY SUITCASE!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIIFfCQvSus
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Yeah dat thang is tite!Paco Del Stinko wrote:To share songs. It's a fight. Collaborate with someone if you want to share ideas. And I'm not jealously gaurding anything. But I'd guard that cool suitcase amp if it were mine!
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+1Paco Del Stinko wrote:To share songs. It's a fight. Collaborate with someone if you want to share ideas.
blippity blop ya don’t stop heyyyyyyyyy
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It's a good title, I am expecting a lot of entries for it. I want to get one in this time and have two ideas so far that are complete opposites of each other - one quite sad song idea - one quite happy song idea ... haven't made up my mind yet.
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Yeah man I am also dealing with same dilemma.chocolatechips wrote:It's a good title, I am expecting a lot of entries for it. I want to get one in this time and have two ideas so far that are complete opposites of each other - one quite sad song idea - one quite happy song idea ... haven't made up my mind yet.
I think it's because the suitcase represents transition - so we are either
Leaving something good - sad
Going towards something good - happy
Leaving something bad - hopeful, happy
Heading towards something bad - anxious, sad
Here is a little game I played with some of my roommates, I asked 'where are you going' and 'what's in your suitcase'. I figure if I can imagine what's in the case it will give me some hints as to what is going on in the story.
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Why must I be a man in a suitcase?
It isn't me......
It isn't me......
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And here I was gonna write about The Suitcase Killer.
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If we were all sitting around trying to come up with one song between us, a brainstorming session would be a pretty swell way to do it. However, what we're doing here is trying to come up with one song each. For a lot of people here, the creative process is an individual thing. You might find some people willing to gab about what's going through their mind as they write a song, but I think you'll have better luck in the review thread, after the songs are finished. For instance, I might tell Billy and the Psychotics that there's a line in their song I can't make sense of, and BLT might respond by explaining what he meant by the line, then busting my chops a bit for overthinking it.darricklucas wrote:AJOwens wrote:A lot of songfighters try to think (no pun intended). Finding (and jealously guarding) an original slant is part of the fun.
I understand wanting to keep your own intellectual property but I would not consider a brainstorming session intellectual property.
Why else have we come here if not to share ideas?
Or perhaps Lunkhead might comment on the vocal recording method in a Dollar Bill & the Inkpoints song, and Johnny Cashpoint might respond with how he recorded the vocals, and why he did it that particular way.
What I've noticed over the years is that many Songfighters are a bit shy or paranoid about discussing their song (in anything but the most general terms) before it's done, but then we get really eager to talk about the finished product, because it's new, and we're proud of that thing we just did, and it's probably going to be stuck in our heads for the next week even if it's not actually any good at all.
So basically what I'm saying is this: The whole back-and-forth discussion thing you're trying to force? It'll happen on its own, so you don't really need to worry a whole lot about that.
And if you think you'll work better if you have a collaborator to bounce ideas off of, there's a subforum for that.
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Get. A. Grip.darricklucas wrote:blah, blah, blah.
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Re: "Suitcase" - PRE-FIGHT DISCUSSION/ARGUING
I just wrote something. Maybe ok
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Re: "Suitcase" - PRE-FIGHT DISCUSSION/ARGUING
Jon, I think BLT just wanted to call you Copernicus. But don't think too deeply on it.
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Generic wrote:If we were all sitting around trying to come up with one song between us, a brainstorming session would be a pretty swell way to do it. However, what we're doing here is trying to come up with one song each. For a lot of people here, the creative process is an individual thing. You might find some people willing to gab about what's going through their mind as they write a song, but I think you'll have better luck in the review thread, after the songs are finished. For instance, I might tell Billy and the Psychotics that there's a line in their song I can't make sense of, and BLT might respond by explaining what he meant by the line, then busting my chops a bit for overthinking it.darricklucas wrote:AJOwens wrote:A lot of songfighters try to think (no pun intended). Finding (and jealously guarding) an original slant is part of the fun.
I understand wanting to keep your own intellectual property but I would not consider a brainstorming session intellectual property.
Why else have we come here if not to share ideas?
Or perhaps Lunkhead might comment on the vocal recording method in a Dollar Bill & the Inkpoints song, and Johnny Cashpoint might respond with how he recorded the vocals, and why he did it that particular way.
What I've noticed over the years is that many Songfighters are a bit shy or paranoid about discussing their song (in anything but the most general terms) before it's done, but then we get really eager to talk about the finished product, because it's new, and we're proud of that thing we just did, and it's probably going to be stuck in our heads for the next week even if it's not actually any good at all.
So basically what I'm saying is this: The whole back-and-forth discussion thing you're trying to force? It'll happen on its own, so you don't really need to worry a whole lot about that.
And if you think you'll work better if you have a collaborator to bounce ideas off of, there's a subforum for that.
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