| re: Jim Steinman Vs Diane Warren | |
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Vin 05:39 pm UTC 03/23/11 |
| In reply to: | Jim Steinman Vs Diane Warren - steven_stuart 03:54 pm UTC 03/21/11 |
| ILFY works for me musically, but the lyrics are pretty bad. And I'll never know why she wrote, "I'd walk across the fire for you, I'd walk on the WILD for you." Come on, Diane, you've already jampacked the song with a trove of trite, rote cliches. No point feigning artistic ingenuity now. Why not just go for the obvious, natural, easy, SENSICAL rhyme here: "I'd walk on the WIRE for you." What you've written doesn't really even make sense. Is that short-hand for "walk on the wild SIDE for you?" This has always bugged me. > Diane Warren has achieved a lot but I do sometimes feel > that she is able to churn out songs. You can order a song > from her and it will be delivered the next working day. > With Jim, I get the feeling that he can only create very > special songs when he is in the right artistic mood > (surely this is why Jim refused to do an entire album for > Air Supply). > > I have to admit that I liked Diane's "I Don't Want To Miss > A Thing" for Aerosmith but I thought that her "I'd Lie For > You" for Meat Loaf was an attempt to copy Jim's writing > stlye and that it really didn't work. Even the video for > "I'd Lie For You" is meant to be a continuation of the > "Anything For Love" video. I'm surprised that "I'd Lie For > You" made it to number 2 in the British charts. That must > make it the most successful non-Jim Meat Loaf song. > > It really isn't fair that a genius songwriter like Jim > hasn't won a songwriting Grammy and yet a professional > songwriter like Diane has (and she has been nominated for > an Oscar six times). | |
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