Does "focused song-writing" always necessarily = "short songs"?

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Well, does it?

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 8 March 2007 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

― Mark G, Thursday, 8 March 2007 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

― unfished business, Thursday, 8 March 2007 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

actually, Yes themselves would be another fantastic counter-example

― unfished business, Thursday, 8 March 2007 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Four posts, at least 7 different layers of zing/irony/meta/lol.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 8 March 2007 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Lock Thread! Too Perfect!

― Mark G, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

GBV

― Mark Rich@rdson, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

It doesn't get much more focussed than Marquee Moon, and that's dead long!

― Neil S, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to say Ys.

― the next grozart, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

re: the original question, I don't think, any more so than "focused" = "short". Sometimes it turns out that way, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes short songs seem totally "unfocused", like say a one-minute Boredoms track that doesn't actually sound like a "song" at all. I do think the longer one sings/speaks/does any task at all, it gets progressively harder to maintain coherence -- but some people are better than others. For that matter, some people can maintain listening focus over longer durations than others.

― Dominique, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

If Long = Epic, then Short = Focused and Writer = Lazy.

― StanM, Thursday, 8 March 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

What Dominique said. To me, "focused" seems to imply an economy of composition. Like in a Bach fugue or invention, he takes material and reuses but with twists and variations and permutations, and it's all very purposeful in a sense, getting from one key to the next and so on, so it all sounds very tightly integrated. Focused songs have that sort of airtight construction and drive toward a purpose, I think.

― St3ve Go1db3rg, Thursday, 8 March 2007 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

One word: Queen

And I may add Mozart too....

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 8 March 2007 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

Queen's songs are on average pretty short, Geir.

― unfished business, Thursday, 8 March 2007 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

whats that song on total 1 where the guy goes, "you need structure!"

― artdamages, Friday, 9 March 2007 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

Louis, Geir's an idiot - don't treat him like a real human being.

― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 9 March 2007 07:39 (nineteen years ago)

Queen's songs are on average pretty short, Geir.

That makes it two words rather than one, then: "Bohemian Rhapsody"

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 9 March 2007 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

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