All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. When my oldest daughter was just 2 years old, we would be riding in the car happily listening to a cassette or to the radio, when suddenly .Martha would burst into tears.
Songs are first and foremost an emotional commodity .
Somehow the combination of expressive words and memorable music has the capacity to bypass our mental filters and go straight to the heart. Songs can reach past all our defenses and cause us to hear the echoes of our hearts rather than the logic of our brains. Great songwriters recognize that effective songs both come from our emotions and speak to our emotions. To produce hits, writers MUST be in touch with their own emotions and then they must communicate those feelings with both words and music that listeners can grasp. The key here is that we must learn to think like a songwriter in our approach to all of life.