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Line 18: Line 18: ====DNA Titles========DNA Titles====- Containmeaning."Black Velvet," "The Great Pretender," "The Tracks of My Tears," or "Cleaning Out My Closet."+ DNA Titles are self-contained. They contain meaning all by themselves.+ + * Rolling In the Deep, Adele+ * Party Rock Anthem, LMFAO+ * Firework, Katy Perry+ * E.T., Katy Perry+ * Black Velvet+ * The Great Pretender+ * The Tracks of My Tears+ * Cleaning Out My Closet====Parasitic Titles========Parasitic Titles====- Need thecontextof the lyricfor full effect."And They Do," or "All I See is You?"+ Parasitic Titles need lyrical context for full effect.+ + * Just Can't Get Enough, The Black Eyed Peas+ * Just the Way You Are, Bruno Mars+ * The Time, The Black Eyed Peas+ * Only Girl (In the World), Rihanna+ * I Wanna Go, Britney Spears+ * And They Do+ * All I See is You?===Finding Titles======Finding Titles===Revision as of 18:52, 3 February 2012
Contents
Title
Songwriting Infobox 
Song ModelSongwriting Lyrics - Melody - Harmony - Rhythm - Form Song Form Title - Chorus - Verse - Prechorus - Bridge Title Infobox Title Lyrics - Melody - Harmony - Rhythm - Form Lyric Infobox Lyrics: Top Level Title - Song Plots - Rhyme - Rhyme Scheme - Lyric Triad Patterns - Lyric Writing Checklist - Scratch - RhymeZone - Titles - Category:Lyrics - Template:Rhyme - Template:Lyric Lyric Lyric - Melody - Harmony - Rhythm - Form Put your title in spotlighted positions: In chorus opening lines, closing lines, or both. in AABA form, at the end of each verse (modern) or at the beginning.
Titles should...
- Distill and express the central idea of the song.
- Be the target area that everything else in the song aims at.
- Be able to be developed as the song progresses, so that it gains more impact as we gain more information.
- Be engaging and interesting, either in themselves or in the ideas they are able to provoke.
- Specific rather than general
Kinds of Titles
DNA Titles
DNA Titles are self-contained. They contain meaning all by themselves.
- Rolling In the Deep, Adele
- Party Rock Anthem, LMFAO
- Firework, Katy Perry
- E.T., Katy Perry
- Black Velvet
- The Great Pretender
- The Tracks of My Tears
- Cleaning Out My Closet
Parasitic Titles
Parasitic Titles need lyrical context for full effect.
- Just Can't Get Enough, The Black Eyed Peas
- Just the Way You Are, Bruno Mars
- The Time, The Black Eyed Peas
- Only Girl (In the World), Rihanna
- I Wanna Go, Britney Spears
- And They Do
- All I See is You?
Finding Titles
- Transformed clichés
- Suggest or contain metaphor or simile.
- A clever turn on words, like "Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue?"
- Sonic bonding, either with vowels (assonance) or consonants (alliteration), or both.
- Opposites (wrong, right; sun, moon; dark, light; in, out; up, down, etc.)
- Repetition
- Repetition with Variation
- Double meanings
- Billboard signs
- Product slogans
- Book and movie titles
- Interesting things people say
- Songs, especially lines you misunderstand
- Thesaurus
- Dictionaries of phrases
- Rhyming dictionary
- Dictionary of alliteration
Recoloring Titles
Title Pitch, Rhythm, and Emphasis
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