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Popular Hit Songs... ...that DO NOT use a traditional rhyme scheme.
I've been thinking about the lyrics of this song for a few weeks. When I heard it at the beginning of the film Zodiac, it seemed like an interesting question. Easy To Be Hard - Three Dog Night How can people be so heartless How can people be so cruel Easy to be hard Easy to be cold How can people have no feelings How can they ignore their friends Easy to be proud Easy to say no Especially people Who care about strangers Who care about evil And social injustice Do you only care about the bleeding crowd? How about a needing friend? I need a friend How can people be so heartless You know I'm hung up on you Easy to be proud Easy to say no Especially people Who care about strangers Who say they care about evil and social injustice Do you only care about the bleeding crowd? How about a needing friend? We all need a friend How can people be so heartless How can people be so cruel Easy to be proud Easy to say no Easy to be cold Easy to say no Easy to give in Easy to say no Easy to be cold Easy to say no Easy to say no A beautiful Pop tune where there's no adherence to any kind of rhyme scheme, yet you don't notice it as being odd.  Can you name any other melodic Popular Hit Songs that were able to get away with this?
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"Need You Tonight" - INXS. Doesn't rhyme at all. | |
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theAudience said: ...that DO NOT use a traditional rhyme scheme.
I've been thinking about the lyrics of this song for a few weeks. When I heard it at the beginning of the film Zodiac, it seemed like an interesting question. Easy To Be Hard - Three Dog Night How can people be so heartless How can people be so cruel Easy to be hard Easy to be cold How can people have no feelings How can they ignore their friends Easy to be proud Easy to say no Especially people Who care about strangers Who care about evil And social injustice Do you only care about the bleeding crowd? How about a needing friend? I need a friend How can people be so heartless You know I'm hung up on you Easy to be proud Easy to say no Especially people Who care about strangers Who say they care about evil and social injustice Do you only care about the bleeding crowd? How about a needing friend? We all need a friend How can people be so heartless How can people be so cruel Easy to be proud Easy to say no Easy to be cold Easy to say no Easy to give in Easy to say no Easy to be cold Easy to say no Easy to say no A beautiful Pop tune where there's no adherence to any kind of rhyme scheme, yet you don't notice it as being odd. Can you name any other melodic Popular Hit Songs that were able to get away with this?
tA Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 It is important to remember that "Easy to Be Hard" was originally a song in the musical Hair. Musical theatre lends itself more towards language cadence and conversation set to music, instead of rhyme. (I was in a regional production of Hair, to give you some useless trivia, and this song is one of my all time favorites.)  "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."
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LittleSmedley said: "Need You Tonight" - INXS. Doesn't rhyme at all.
That's a good one. tA Tribal Disorder
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cubic61052 said: It is important to remember that "Easy to Be Hard" was originally a song in the musical Hair. Musical theatre lends itself more towards language cadence and conversation set to music, instead of rhyme. (I was in a regional production of Hair, to give you some useless trivia, and this song is one of my all time favorites.) Were you in one of the nekkid scenes? That musical had a few other pretty popular tunes. Hair, Aquarius & Good Morning Starshine. tA Tribal Disorder
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theAudience said: cubic61052 said: It is important to remember that "Easy to Be Hard" was originally a song in the musical Hair. Musical theatre lends itself more towards language cadence and conversation set to music, instead of rhyme. (I was in a regional production of Hair, to give you some useless trivia, and this song is one of my all time favorites.) Were you in one of the nekkid scenes? That musical had a few other pretty popular tunes. Hair, Aquarius & Good Morning Starshine. tA Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431 (We are off-topic...) According to The Laughing Wolf: First, there is a difference between being nude, naked, and nekkid. Nudity is simply being without clothes, the state in which we enter the world. It is the state of grace described as being present in the Garden of Eden, and one to which many have aspired to return. It is an innocence for some, and an acceptance our bodies and ourselves to others. Naked is the state to which Adam and Eve are described as going. It is a feeling of shame and loathing at their bodies, our bodies, as somehow being wrong. It is the precursor of sin and bad thoughts. Nekkid, as the comic once said, means that you are naked and up to no good. To most, it is sex, it is sin, it is wrong. In the case of Hair, one should use the term 'nude'..... [Edited 9/6/07 11:11am] "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."
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Kate Bush Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) | |
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cubic61052 said: (We are off-topic...)
According to The Laughing Wolf: First, there is a difference between being nude, naked, and nekkid. Nudity is simply being without clothes, the state in which we enter the world. It is the state of grace described as being present in the Garden of Eden, and one to which many have aspired to return. It is an innocence for some, and an acceptance our bodies and ourselves to others. Naked is the state to which Adam and Eve are described as going. It is a feeling of shame and loathing at their bodies, our bodies, as somehow being wrong. It is the precursor of sin and bad thoughts. Nekkid, as the comic once said, means that you are naked and up to no good. To most, it is sex, it is sin, it is wrong. In the case of Hair, one should use the term 'nude'.....
To hell with all the filibustering and intellectual misdirection maneuvers. Was ya nekkid as a jaybird or not? 
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Cheek said: Kate Bush Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
Nice add. tA Tribal Disorder
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theAudience said: cubic61052 said: (We are off-topic...)
According to The Laughing Wolf: First, there is a difference between being nude, naked, and nekkid. Nudity is simply being without clothes, the state in which we enter the world. It is the state of grace described as being present in the Garden of Eden, and one to which many have aspired to return. It is an innocence for some, and an acceptance our bodies and ourselves to others. Naked is the state to which Adam and Eve are described as going. It is a feeling of shame and loathing at their bodies, our bodies, as somehow being wrong. It is the precursor of sin and bad thoughts. Nekkid, as the comic once said, means that you are naked and up to no good. To most, it is sex, it is sin, it is wrong. In the case of Hair, one should use the term 'nude'.....
To hell with all the filibustering and intellectual misdirection maneuvers. Was ya nekkid as a jaybird or not?
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(We remain off-topic, ya know...  )
Ahem...OK... 
According to the descriptions of the three states of undress as stated above: I was not naked, as I felt no shame or loathing at my body and it was not a precursor of sin or bad thoughts. I was not nekkid, as I was not up to no good and it was not wrong. Therefore, nude it the correct word to use - simply without clothes. In theatre nudity becomes all rather clinical and business-like. 
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