I really, really, really, really, really wanted to talk to you about, melodies.  And I’ll tell you why. Because  having toured the entire country earlier this year, for the UK songwriting competition, and listened to lots and lots and lots of songs, there was a common theme  running throughout a lot of the ones, a lot of the songs that didn’t get through.  And the common theme was, I  just wasn’t interested enough  in the melody.
It just didn’t do anything for me. And the other judges were saying similar things. Â And the word that I used probably more than anything on my comment sheets for songs that I listened to, throughout the entire competition, Â was the sixth letter word that I think is the songwriter’s worst enemy. And that’s linear.
 It starts off here,  it keeps going along here, and it keeps going along here. Halfway through the song, I’m just thinking, please do something different. Please do something. Please surprise me. Please be interesting, exciting, unique, unusual, do something that that makes me, makes me listen, and makes me feel moved by what you do.  And  by that point, I was kind of like, it was, it was, it was tough to listen to a lot of songs that didn’t go anywhere now.
And  this is something that’s very, very easy for songwriters to forget.  Even  even when I get into a songwriting session, and I talk about this on in a lot of courses,  I can sometimes get really excited by a song and go, yeah, yeah, yeah. The vibe of this is great, isn’t it great beat? Yeah. Don’t I love this song? Oh, the lyric fantastic. And then I listen to it a week later and go, I can’t remember the, I can’t remember the melody of what I wrote.
And that bothers me. So I go back and I have to have another complete look at the melody because we get excited about it. We get excited. Â
