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Originally Posted by Dawn
Ive watched a few clips from interviews lately... during one of them, think it was born to be beautiful (Im sure someone will correct me if Im wrong) Jon says, I dont want to write the downer songs, I want to sing songs that lift people....
This is where Jon song writing is going wrong and why we havent got another 'These Days' emotional based record.. Psychology shows that people are lifted, feel better when finding someone/thing that relates to their pain/emotion.
Jon is in save the world mode, my songs can improve peoples lives, so Ill write uplifting songs and the fans will be happier ! It doesnt work that way... There is room for uplifting songs but it needs understanding lyrics to come first....
For example, a guy has lost his job, he wants to hear lyrics that relate to this with a perhaps positive outlook via lyrics... not a never mind just an IML or WWBTF !
If Jon would go back to writing a 'downer' song he would connect emotionally better with the fans once more.... until he changes his thought process, there wont be a change.......
Dawn
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I think it is just because he is and has aspirations to be an artist rather than a psychologist. Being an artist he feels a need to write songs with positive message and has a cerain vision of how they should work. Artist is subjctive. And probably he does not "feel" the "downer" songs, so expressing a pessimistic message he would be lying to himself an thus get artificial, unconvincing. Let us do the artist what he needs and feels. Art is subjective, an expression of one's self.
For me the song works miracles. I am a depressive kind of person and still his song lifts me up, makes me creative, gives me motivation to act. Such at least it is for me. But if it lifts me up it is a proof that there are some people, at least one person (me) who receive the song as Jon in his subjective vision intended it to work.