Sorry Marc but it annoys me when people feel the need to label someone eles art.... usually in a manner that I actually find offencive.

When the reality is what is important about what it is called? Does it really matter if a person calls their lyric a song? Why is it so necessary to re-label something? ... sure if its a discussion about that subject... but otherwise why the need to correct something with something else that is equally incorrect?... Yes ok his work more correctly should be called "Lyrics" not songs... but to call them poetry is just as wrong as calling them songs if not more so... because the writer may have written in a melody and once the words have a melody ... music or nay... they can be corectly called a song... The fact that it called also be considered a poem or is in poetic form is neither here nor there..

There was a number one hit in the UK called "they're comming to take me away" that had words and melody but the only instrument used was a single voice... Many vocal harmonising groups use only their voices as instruments with no other music... and people sing "songs" Songs may or may not have lyrics and lryics are words written to be sung... But again it comes back to "so what".

Who would call traditional folk "Pop music" but in it's day when it was written the reason we hear it today is because it was the "pop" of era... Most of what we call pop these days is (IMO) actually bublegum music...

In Australia, Poetry is big... not the byron or keats type but the bush ballads of the past and present it did start to die out a few years back but it is having a major revival....We have a televised national poetry slam... possibly almost as popular as Australian Idol...... many of Austraia's great traditional country songs are bush ballads set to music.. yes these were actually written as poetry and became songs later... different to a person speciffically writing something to be sung...

Story telling and music creation are cultural things that the worlds population has not out grown...

I find it hurtful that because I and others come to songwriting from a different perspective to what is "Popular", that there are those who feel their way is the only way and we are some how lessor song writers and they are driven to ram it down our throats that they are right and we are wrong... Is it because they are afraid of us they want to kick us, are we so big a threat because of how we view the world? ... If they want to get technical well let's take the Oxford or MacQuarie Dictionary definitions... I mean we all speak english ... Don't we?

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