No one would be able to deny that
melody in musics, somehow, effects their lives. When something lets you down
you tend to play sad musics just to let yourself drown in a mellow melody. When
something makes you happy you tend to play cheerful musics just to let your
soul and that joyful melody do a suite. But the lyrics? Some people, perhaps
don't mind the lyrics at all as long as the melody is into them. Even some
musicians, senselessly think that, "they're just lyrics, they're just not
as important as melody so it doesn't have to be perfect". I couldn't agree
on that. And I so get that why such beautiful melodies within bunch of songs nowadays
have lurid lyrics in them (hey I love exaggerate things :p). Why don't they put
that beautiful melody along with beautiful lyrics as well.. A perfect song
they'll surely have there.
MUSIC AND
LYRICS
I’m actually not kinda person who
loves drama movies. But I gotta tell this one has seized my interest. I'm glad
that I found this 95 minutes Warner Bros Pictures movie. "Music and
Lyrics", released in February 2007, kicks off with an 80s-style Wham-like
video of a band called as 'PoP!' presented 'PoP! Goes My Heart'. I personally
think that song is way much better than songs nowadays. Both melodies and
lyrics are just really good. PoP! was one of the biggest bands of the 80s but
then Collin Thompson (Scott Porter), their lead vocalist, met a new manager who
convinced him he was the star of the band and he left, taking the last three
songs they'd written together and putting them on his solo album which went on
to sell eight million records. Shortly, PoP! broke up.
Fifteen years after PoP! disbanded,
the washed-up singer Alex Fletcher (Hugh Grant), one of the PoP founding
members, do a complete failure solo-career. This 'has-been' reprising his old
hits for his now middle-aged fans in increasingly humiliating venues (such as
high school reunions, theme parks, dinner parties, and fairs) to survive. But
then a current biggest sensation Cora Corman (Haley Bennett), a huge PoP! fan,
asks him to compose a duet for the two of them to be called "Way Back Into
Love". Alex and his manager Chris Riley (Brad Garrett) capture it as a big
chance to refresh Alex's image and make it back into the popular music. Trouble
is, Cora needs the song by only three days, and Alex was never good at writing
lyrics. He needs a lyricist but it's not easy to get somebody good that fast.
Accidentally, Alex discovers his
temporary plant waterer Sophie Fisher (Drew Barrymore), turns out a poems and
short stories writer. Alex thinks she were born lyricist, but Sophie doesn't
think so. Alex convinced her to assist him on the song and he did it. But
Sophie takes too long to get inspiration for the good lyrics and Alex getting
anxious of little time they have.
