Reply To: Masters of Song-Fu

[Angelastic]

I’m trying to come up with a new twist on releasing songs regularly

Well I guess you could put a whole lot of words into a hat (read: database) and randomly pick out two each week (Stephen Hawking and pudding, for example — by the way, those have to be two of my favourite things) and force yourself to write a song about those two things. Or you could pick a playing card and a letter of the alphabet each week (that’s what I’m doing, but I don’t write songs), or write a song about each month, as Pendleton (Gregory Wicky, not the other one[s]) did in his album ‘Grounded for a Year’ (‘February’ is 19 seconds long, and the ‘lyrics’ are, ‘February sucks, and I don’t want to sing about it.’) or ask directly for suggestions like Request-A-Song and songstowearpantsto. Or enter SongFights. Or you could use your fans (all three) as inspiration. 😉

Thanks for the information about iTunes, that’s really interesting.

Edit: Of course, none of these is a ‘new twist’, but a combination of them would be. Don’t know if it’d twist you too tight to breathe though.