What Does 'Show Don't Tell' Mean in Songwriting?

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What does "show don't tell" mean in songwriting? In this video, we're talking about what the phrase "show don't tell" means, whether it’s good advice, and how you can use both “showing” and “telling” in your lyric writing.

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00:00 - Intro
00:16 - What Does "Show Don't Tell" Mean?
01:56 - The 5 Levels of Showing
04:52 - Striking a Balance
07:21 - How We Perceive Language

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Lovley video. Making me reflect on our old songwriting classes together analyzing Leonard Cohen and David Bowie lyrics, hope all is well!

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The framing at the end is great! Comedy song or wistful childhood memory... vary degree of tell and show accordingly. As regards fancy language. Besides consideration of the casual audience it's worth considering the setting of the events. Or the character's probable vocabulary. Droplets probably don't feature in the vocabulary of that working class man but a pretentious, highly educated college student who fancies themselves a writer and thinks the world is ending along with her relational break-up? ....might be a different story.

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