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re: Define a "good" song...

Posted by:	ryhog 04:04 pm EST 01/15/14
In reply to:	Define a "good" song... - Zelgo 02:28 pm EST 01/15/14

A good song (and I assume you mean in a theatrical context) is a song that produces in the audience (or at least most of the audience) the result desired by the show's creators. Anything other than that definition applies some subjective gloss of the person offering the definition. There are certain things that we can assume the show's creators do NOT want (like for the audience to be bored by it), but beyond that, the purpose really has to focus on the two ends of the spectrum -- the creators' intention or purpose for the song, and whether the audience gets from it what the creators intended. The creators, as an example, can employ a song to convey character, and it may technically do that from their standpoint, but if the audience checks out of the song, it will not fulfill the intention. So if I had to reduce it to two words, they would be intention and fulfillment. What we get here are a lot of posts that criticize songs because the person posting doesn't personally like the song from a stylistic standpoint. While everyone's individual take is legitimate, and sometimes interesting, it often obscures any objective meaning to the question of what makes a song good.

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