Lyrics About are ideas captured in original lyrics that are written for purposes beyond the lyrics.
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The goal is to use a scientific mind, artistic heart approach to channel the unique powers of lyrics to create, capture, and share ideas.
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This approach is inspired by how scientists conduct experiments to isolate and capture ideas, and the unique artistic powers of lyrics. ​
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The goal is not to instantly create "perfect" art, but to use lyrics to bottle foundational ideas for discovery, creating, sharing, and sometimes later for polishing in ways that can become great art or precise langauge.
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I apply the Lyrics About approach in two main ways.
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I help others write lyrics about their art, self, brand, designs, visions, challenges, customers, and more use to people discover, do, and make amazing things. I do this in collabs with artists, in workshops with businesses, and in custom activities for all.
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I write my own lyrics to discover and to augment the science and theories in my teaching and OPI Talks, and to share with you all here.
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I hope you will find some originality, power, and enjoyment in my Lyrics About or maybe even find a personal breakthrough by writing your own.
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My Lyrics About . . .
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Modern Emotions
Capturing modern ideas with color and precision to compliment and expand academic and culutral perspectives
Lyrics about a modern melancholy
Lyrics about the oscillating nature of metamodern culture
Lyrics about the cultural revival of absurdism
Lyrics about escaping into the imaginary worlds inside one’s own head
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I just wanna zone for so long
And pour more than sleepy time in my cup​
While I listen to a song
That sounds like a robot that has given up
-Blank Blues
Concept Art by Brett Cuviello
Existential Feelings
Capturing the emotion, fear, and depth of psychological theories, artistic practices, and life itself
Lyrics about the existential terrors that linger in our heads as we try to hide them behind things like “Sunday Brunch Smiles”
Lyrics about the valid fear of never being fully known by anyone, even one's friends
Lyrics about the psychology of identity loss, change, and longing
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Now we’re all screaming under our softest breath
Sunday brunch smiles but scared to death
-Sunday Brunch Smiles
Country
As a consumer psychologist raised on country music, I find there is unique value in this simple narrative-ready genre
Lyrics about longing for the calm, nature, and country that exists in pockets everywhere
Lyrics about life, captured with simplicity and gritty optimism
Lyrics about an "in-between" love and lust relationship meant to clearly capture an evolving trend in music and popular culture
Lyrics about how rural America is suffering and, at the same time, is being romanticized
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Where’s your country, where’s that part
A prairie field like a work of art
A lake or diner to fill my heart
A rusty gate where the backroads start
-Where's Your Country?
Lifespan
Applying the science of how people process time and the personal experience of being a not-old-but-not-young indivdiual
Lyrics that proudly and combatively invert the glory days trope
Lyrics that about embracing continual personal change
Lyrics about a love story told in four parts with a core embodied weather metaphor
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Cuz you're in a story no one's written or read
Your glory days are right ahead
-Glory Days Ahead
Music
Reflections on music and art, with a lot of influence from social, consumer, and cognitive psychology
Lyrics about what an audience can mean to a performer, especially a long-time performer
Lyrics about an analytical artist who can deeply understand people, but feels divided from them
Lyrics about the power of simple songs and their overlooked contextual relevance
Lyrics about loving and relating to sad songs, but wishing you didn’t
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As these ageless images fly
Through my mind
I see you in thousands of frames
Pictures of so many people
I know them all, but
Only know a few names
-Familiar Faces
Micro
A collection of ideas captured in very short lyrics and prose
Micro lyrics about different happy feelings
Micro lyrics about different existential, bold, depressive, and angsty feelings
Micro prose about how academic psychology and artistic lyrics do a similar thing
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And of every type of thing you’ve been dreaming of The only one that lives up to the hype is love
-The Hype
