Why a bad line can make a good song
Some of the most loved songs hide clumsy phrasing in plain sight. We look at five examples and ask why the rough edges are exactly what makes them stick.
Media notes
Short essays and annotated lyrics. Written slowly, updated when there is something worth saying.
Reading a chorus backwards
An experiment: take a familiar chorus, reverse the order of its lines, and see which ones still carry the song on their own.
The liner-note archive
Notes on how liner notes used to be written, and what disappeared when they became thumbnails.