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Joined: Jun 2019
Posts: 7,297 Likes: 175
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Joined: Jun 2019
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Intelligence and style... I'm not a stereotypical country bumpkin lol. I hate that... I refuse to limit myself to the lowest common denominator in Nashville, always have. I'm the anti-stereotype. I'm convinced most country folk are tired of it too, especially Southerners. So, I try real hard not to spoon feed the audience with generic "conversational" banality. Instead, I try to paint "visual word pictures"... and I'm not afraid to be concise and descriptive. The trick is not to overpower the listener with too much specific information; The lyric then becomes unrelatable. Prosody is also a major factor. Lyrics are written to music, so they have to share a rhythm. Carrie's lyric is written for a modern "4 on the floor" country style. Which, in my opinion, is actually rock with a southern accent lol. I could write the same song in 3/4 time, with half the words, include more detail, and still be just as intentionally vague... In short... I DO "talk like that"  It's your song, Ben... I'm just doing what I do 
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