LYRIC CHEAT SHEET (LCS)
Lesson 14: POV-Power
Action Points:
The POV you choose for your song will drastically change how your audience will connect with it.
Direct-Address creates intimacy, while First & Third Person keeps your audience at a distance.
So play with different perspective to see what suits your song best. The best way you can do this is to rewrite your verses & bridge in all the 4 Stages of POV. Watch out on how it will change the feel of the song. Then decide what version you like best.
Because once you're done this, you will look at your lyrics with new eyes.
Songs That Use This Concept:
Direct Adress
Do I Wanna Know?
by Arctic Monkey
Still Into You by Paramore
My Blood
by Twenty One Pilots
Sound of Madness
by Shinedown
2nd-Person
Stronger by Kelly Clarkson
Raise Your Glass by P!nk
No One by The Beatles
Fire Inside by Bob Seger
1st-Person
Can’t Feel My Face
by The Weeknd
Supermarket Flowers
by Ed Sheeran
Psychosocial by Slipknot
Stressed Out
by Twenty One Pilots
3rd-Person
Supermodel by Maneskin
A-Team by Ed Sheeran
Lose Yourself by Eminem
Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles
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