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Writing to a formula may beget you a great song but may be as boring as watching paint dry. I mostly write to what comes to me as a particularly good idea at the time. When I wrote THE LOST CHAD SONG, lyrics posted on lyric board one the idea just came to me. So I would not worry too much about a particular formula of how to write songs. I do think some pop writers from the past did write to a basic formula Whatever works for you is the right way but many of the big hits weren't written to some type of formula.


Ray E. Strode