Forming and singing our own Lyrics

A song is a beautiful blend of various elements that come together to create harmony, emotion, and storytelling.

Here are the key components: Melody, Lyrics, Rhythm, Structure, Instrumentation, Dynamics, Harmony, Structure and production. A well-crafted song balances these elements to create a powerful listening experience.

I love the storytelling in lyrics and how musicians get inspired to write. I write song reviews sometimes and even at one time, I coined the August Rush challenge and some Afrobloggers joined it. I have listened to Artistes say the inspiration for writing a song and it’s amazing, sometimes inspirational comes out of the blue but it takes a pure genius to write lyrics out of the situation. Joseph Mayanja alias Chameleon explains below how Kuuma obwesigwa,Valu valu and Badilisha were sang and the inspiration is amazing

Growing up,there are some songs I listened to but for some reason either the song progression or something I can’t get,I loved the song and would try to sing along,oh how wrong I was. The song, Take me my the hand by Papa Wemba would find me singing,tikibadiye and I would sing out aloud,it was later that I found out that I was forming and singing my own things. I recently watched something that made me laugh so hard,a guy went to a local disk jockey and wanted a particular song,he knew what he wanted but didn’t know the title so he was asked to sing the song and he began singing, January February December me, turns out the song was Remember Me by Lucky Dube and it is funny how the formed lyrics seem right so one can sing January February December me instead of In whatever you do, remember me.. it’s after a while that you realize how wrong we were.

Nowadays I listen to music for its lyrical value and Kadongo Kamu is my finest genre of music. I have reviewed Emlanjeni which is sang in Xhosa because music is a universal language and so have I in lingala Nakei Nairobi . In all my reviews I tell a story like I did in Hello by Adele or go to the song technically like in Natural Woman by Aretha Franklin .I do so because I have realized that there are many angles to writing a song and so is the perception/listenership. Is there a song that you used to sing wrongly but realized the right lyrics later on, let me know in the comments.