Joe: That's a great question. I feel like I've done both in my life. There are moments I feel like I've used songwriting a lot of the times is like a therapeutic process. So if something's happening, I always like to write music. There have been a few times where like, I'll sit down and be like, "I want to write today," but usually it comes out not great. But usually my process is that I always try to get a chord progression first, because I feel like I can convey a lot more emotion through like the chords that I'm putting in in the melody that I have than just from the lyrics itself. So once I have that, I just sort of like find lyrics that fit with the vibe of the chords that I wrote or the melody that I wrote and it all just kind of goes from there. It's often like a very--not like a short process, but I never like to leave anything like too unfinished. If I start it, I kind of just like to get it done and at least have a draft of it before I go back and redo it.
Lyrics Music And Me – Michael Jackson
Joe: I think the biggest reason is that I've always just felt like I'm a stronger music writer than I am a lyric writer. And so a lot of times lyrics for me, it's not about the poetry for me, if that makes sense. Like I know people who are just writing poetry all the time, and like, they have all these lyrics and stuff like that. But for me, it's just like, I always feel I connect more to any song that I listen to or write just like to the chord progression and to the melody, and things like that, so I just gravitate towards that. And another reason I do this is because my oldest sister went to NYU. And Pharrell was giving a masterclass to the recording music program there. And my sister went because she knew that I was into recording stuff. And he said something about how, when he goes to write a song, he always plays the chords first and gets the chords first, because of the reason that I said, I kind of got this from him. But he said that it always conveys a lot more for him to have the harmony and the melody down, and then put lyrics that fit that, just because that's the way he feels like the music flows. And that's the way I think the music flows, at least when I listened to it too. So...
Lucas: I never really wrote before coming here, like music or lyrics in general. And then when I got here, this friend of ours, he turned to me and he was just like, "Hey, I've got a bunch of lyrics, like, do you want to do something with that?" And I just said, sure, you know, it's sort of like the opportunity presented itself rather than I sort of consciously made a choice to, to, you know, start with lyrics. It has to be an organic process, I think. 2ff7e9595c
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