- Dream winx wrote:
- That is really good. I found a song as well titled "I don't care" and it states that i will be who I am and I don't care what you think about it.
Are these songs you wrote or found online? They are really good and inspirational.
Hi:
Most of the song I write are built on the work of others. I'm not that good enough to come up with my own beats and wireframes so I build on the work of songs, artists, etc. that I like or discover. As a result, I usually out of respect to the original artists give them credit in the "header", if you notice the "original artist" line on all the headers, that's me giving credit to the original artist for inspiring me. The only time the original artist is not credited is if I manage to substantially improve the song and only use just the beat and none of the ideas or original lyrics.
here's a quick summary of the song writing process:
1. Discover: find a song in my comapny's music library (over 5,000 plus songs) or online that speaks to me and that can easilly envision "rocking out" to in a music video or just walking down the hall at work (my music video are shared internally at work as the team from work helps create them and edit them)
2. Define Project Scope: find a topic that I think would be a good match for the song and think of how I can communicate that in lyrics and even an accompanying video if we do one.
3. Plan and Draft: based on the information in the Define Project Scope step above, start drafting lyrics in MS word on my laptop. During this process I'm also beginning the brainstorming for any accompanying music video for internal release and/or PostRelease (posting lyrics to external resources such as forums). During the Plan and Draft phase the comments that I put at the top that tell you what was going through my mind while I was writing get developed. Note that by this stage, the lyrics are still very much a "wireframe" and have not been fully developed and my creativity has not gotten fully ahold of that wireframe to shape it into a final product, I'm still working with just little sparks of ideas here and there
4. Get Feedback: I usually will let 2 or three of my work friends see a song (as a wireframe) before moving forward just so they an give input.
5. Refine: refine any ideas that stuck from the four steps above and really go to town on that wireframe and come up with something that more closely resembles the end lyrics.
6. Review: post the "RC1" lyrics to internal forum at work for internal review and comment.
7. Refine: after those comments come in make alterations and edits
8. clean up: after the lyrics are refined clean up any holes in the story or continuity of a song.
9. Finalize: add headers, post blocks, etc. for PostReleases, begin production on music videos for internal release (videos have their own processing that I won't get into here) and in general add the polish that my creative side is known for.
10. Pepair and Release: after all that's done, any last minute edits are usually made (such as creating "cleaned up" versions of certain songs for PostRelease to sites with strict rules about swearing, depictions of violence, religious themes, etc.) and trust me the cleaned up version is a bit of a stretch some times because we have to find a way to still preserve the messages while editing out anything objectionable (we normally don't like "clean" versions of songs, but we also don't like to see me getting warned or banned from forums) Some places do get the "full" versions, but for most PostReleases, the Cleaned Up version is sent out.
11. Respond: once the lyrics go up on PostRelease and emails start coming in, with replies on threads then it's time to manage it and respond to those replies.
If you're wondering why you only see mine and on rare occasions other colleagues' names on the remix by header, it's because we only list the people who wrote the lyrics in that header, all the other support staff like video editors, the people who helped clean up stuff during the RC1 phase, etc. get recognized internally at wok but not recognized in PostReleases as this is not a Hollywood movie where even the kid that gets the director's dry-cleaning needs to be in the credits.
Hope this gives you a better idea of how the process works and how these lyrics come to be. It's a long and involved process. The only time it's not is if I say "I just jammed this out now" or something similar, but even that has gone through some degree of processing.
Sun Dec 03, 2023 3:29 pm by 
Subject: REG: Lyrics Remix -- "Weak" -- Winx Remix 
you were curious so you asked