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Originally posted by Janet Kenny:
Surely that's a powerful, dramatic musical monologue rather than a song?
It packs a wallop and I like it but...
Janet
(I meant the Cohen)
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Unfortunately, Leonard Cohen's croak turns just about any "song" into a monologue. It is what it is.
But maybe you meant compositionally, i.e., the relationship between the lyric and the music. I'm out of my depth there, especially with you. But it does seem to me like the words fit in the melody pretty well, even though the arrangement is that God-awful arch-Eighties now-let-us-bow-to-the-synthesizer crap.
The distinction you're making reminds me of the line between poetry and prose from that other thread. I think the consensus there was that while one flies or sparkles or whistles or bats .300 or something, the other doesn't
feel as good and is therefore an entirely different thing. Maddening stuff for a parser like me.
I'll just say that I like Leonard's recordings. There's music behind them, and he's not really just talking, and he calls them songs, so I don't mind calling them songs too. 'Nuff said.
--CS