Hooks
I was just looking through a bunch of the older posts and I finally recognized how fully CC’s titles almost always have hooks for songs in them. Even when it’s not a song I want to write or it’s a song that doesn’t really match the post itself (Rolling Thunder being a prime example), it’s still a song title.
This is not to disparage any of PC’s post titles (or mine for that matter). It’s just one of those things. Some people’s writing lends itself to hooks. We never asked for song titles. This was not something that was planned. It just happened. That’s sort of the beauty of it. Sometimes, we found hooks in other places within the post, but generally speaking - it just sat there in the title.
For those of you who are wondering what a hook is - it is quite simply the repeated and defining phrase that is sung in a song. Generally speaking, it’s the title: Some Enchanted Evening, Oops I Did It Again, I’m Not Gonna Write You a Love Song (actually - I don’t know if that’s the title of the song but that’s definitely the hook) … Born in the USA. Basically, when a musical hook and a lyric hook are working in tandem - they are ridiculously memorable and catchy. When they aren’t, there’s some other memorable musical idea of the song.
Anyway, some people write in cliches, some people write in axioms, CC writes song titles.
Today, I’m going over to Brian’s to do some work on the epic Last Week’s Alcohol. I know we’ve been remiss in our Fresh X song writing. It’s been a long hard few months on our little brains. So many songs, so many concerts, so many rewrites. But we’re excited to isolate this and just do a bit of good and dirty work today. Nothing refined. I’ll let you know how it goes.
After the Bruce Springsteen concert. Because yes, we’re going to that first. Remember when they call him The Boss? I do. I think he still dresses like he’s in the 80s - which is about to go out of style AGAIN.
I might also let you know how that goes.