Is that the secret to songwriting? Immerse oneself to common things, pick just one main thing and hope that someone or two person will understand it. Well, I guess the last one is just an option, the first two things are what matters most. I think? I don't know, I'm not a songwriter. The music or tone, you decide I guess, which one would satisfy more audience or perhaps to play on ones emotion?
First is: immerse oneself to common thing. This is like having a connection to a character in your favorite story or game. If you have something common, then you'll most likely connect with each other. You'll understand more things about why and what's going on. As for our topic, you'll realize that the song you're hearing is relating to you. Heck, you'll be convinced that the song is all about you, as an audience.
I'd be honest, that last paragraph is pretty jumbled.
How to explain it more than I already did? Let say a song is about a boy courting a girl. Then you find yourself, an audience, in a similar situation, you're also a boy courting a girl. A connection, right? Then the song goes on saying that the boy got rejected but kept trying until he won the girl. Of course, you on the same situation will get motivated or something.
I almost forgot, emphasis on the word "common." If your song is about something uncommon, thing is, you'll won't make a connection to more audience but I guess something will work out, I guess?
Next, picking just one main thing. Straight to the point as that. Do I need to explain it?
A song don't need to cover a lot of thing. One thing is enough, two is too much and three is just too plentiful, I think? Or I got it wrong with this phrase, right? I wonder why? See it like this, if a song has a lot to cover, will one song be enough? Well, a song must only have one chorus, right? And having a common chorus for more a lot of things covered in just one song, perhaps?
I don't know though, I might be wrong, but won't it confuse the audience if the beginning of the song is about the birth or the coming of a baby brother and in that same song you're sing about your dog's death? Heavy metal as fuck.
And the third one, it's not much the singer or the songwriter's initiative to do this but it's shear luck and fortune. As an audience, there will come time when you songs that you'll relate so much that you'll feel like the song is actually singing about you. And when the chorus comes, you'll just feel the hairs and pores of your skin stand. Goose bump. Then perhaps you'll smile but your eyes will just well up and something cold will slither down your cheeks. You're crying. You're happy or something but something isn't right with expression you're showing.
Regarding the tone and style of how the music will be. I don't know, sometimes doing things out of normal is great but only sometimes. I'm musically dull when it comes to instruments. So I'm not much gonna explore this.
Well, what do I know about songwriting, anyway?
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Just a quick update...
Regarding the main theme of the song.... I guess you can put more than one theme in a song as long as those themes have a common ground. A simile/metaphor thing, so when you write about a dying rose, you could also mean about a dying love or something, depends on your taste.
Or you could also make it a direct opposite of what you want, like the end of the river and a beginning of new hope... but whatever, songs like poetry, the meaning may sometimes differ for the writer and the reader/audience.
Again, I'll repeat what I said, what do I know about songwriting, anyway?
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