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that's interesting.

Any words can be set to music.

I read a review/article on Elton John, who gave a songwriting masterclass in London last year. Basically he was asked about the relationship between words and music, and he said he could take any words and make a song out of them. Someone in the audience challenged him to do it on the spot, so they found a book, took a page at random and he wrote a song on teh spot and sang the words from the book as the lyrics! (It's apparently how he writes all his songs - someone does the lyrics and then he turns them into a tune).



In interviews, Elton John has explained that in most of his classic hits, his famous lyricist - Bernie Taupin - always wrote the words first. He then added the music right before the recording session - in an hour or two. This is obviously very easy for him to do. The two never worked together.

Sam Kanter, NYC
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