Posted by The Accidental Lyricist on 28 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: news
I was on Twitter again last night, and I must say that the sheer number of posts about lyrics is phenomenal. So I did what I have been humming and hawing about for some time, I opened an A_Lyric Twitter account. Their widget (on the right column) is buggy. So to hook up with me, [...]
Posted by The Accidental Lyricist on 25 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: gadgets
I just came across a little gizmo called Song Generator that is available as an iPhone application. The idea is that songwriters that are stuck for lyrics can turn the application on. When they shake their phone, three random phrases pop up. This is supposed to spark your imagination. As an example, you can play [...]
Posted by The Accidental Lyricist on 10 Jun 2009 | Tagged as: events, gadgets, news
OK, it’s a bit gimmicky but it could be interesting. US band Of a Revolution has launched a call to co-write a song on Twitter. They are asking people to submit lines that they will choose and collate and chop up into verses and choruses. Said frontman Marc Robege in Billboard magazine: “I do a [...]
Posted by The Accidental Lyricist on 06 May 2009 | Tagged as: gadgets, news
For as long as I’ve been running A-Lyric.com, I’ve been telling people about the huge demand for lyrics. Song lyrics are regularly in the top 10 search terms, and lyric sites are amongst the most visited on the web. Sony is one of the first majors to come to the obvious conclusion that adding song [...]
Posted by The Accidental Lyricist on 13 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: meanings
Cover of Grace Kelly I had been hoping this one would eventually die out, but no. At least twice a week, someone still asks, “What’s the meaning of Mika’s ‘Grace Kelly’?” On the face of it, it’s simply another song about being whatever the other person wants you to be (an idea I find creepy [...]