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Hi, my name is Cody Kimmel. I am the lead singer of the band Eliot Fitzgerald, and I’m
here with Expert Village to teach you how to write an alternative-pop song. To begin
with today, in talking about writing an alternative-pop song, it’s first important to understand
the history of alternative. One thing we must do as song writers, and as just people dabbling
in song writing, whether you are a songwriter and have been for a long time, or somebody
that’s just interested in looking into it; one of the things to remember is that you
are not just a songwriter. In fact, you are one of many songwriters within a history of
music. So depending on what genre you are writing for, for example alternative or pop
or whatever, you must understand the history of where it came from. For alternative music,
for example, it has a much shorter history than a lot of other genres such as country
or rock and roll or hip-hop, folk or anything like that. Alternative was really a musical
genre that came out of about the early 1990’s. It kind of came out of frustration with where
music was heading. Really the only reason it’s called alternative music, is because
they didn’t really know what else to call it. As far as they knew, there was the hip-hop
funk, there was the dance techno, there was kind of the ‘80’s wave music, there were
the hair bands, and there was the hard rock. And this came out, and bands like the Counting
Crows, even Nirvana and Pearl Jam, and different bands like that, and DJs didn’t really know
what to call it. So as you enter into the world of song writing for alternative-pop
music, it’s important to know where you came from.