I've been listening really close to lyrics lately and I can't help but wonder.. doesn't anybody check lyrics for accuracy these days?
We get PLENTY of feedback when a word seems out of place or a line doesn't quite add up, is out of sequence, etc. at NSAI or similar songwriter meetings for critique/feedback.
Here's a couple of examples;
Rodney Atkins "Take a Back Road" "..A little George Strait 1982" uh.. yeah.. that was Randy Travis that sang "1982"
And then.. there's "Farmer's Daughter" I know.. it seems I'm picking on Rodney or the great writers Marv Green, Rhett Akins, Ben Hayslip and Luke Laird but I'm not.. it's just the two best examples from really popular songs right now.
Have a listen.. "Sweatin like a dog" Dog's don't really sweat.. they pant. I know they sweat some through the glands in their feet, but if you are "sweating like a dog" you ain't doing much at all. It would be just as easy to say hog, Hogs do indeed sweat and hogs are on farms.. etc... so why "dog".
Anyways, my point is if all songwriters get beat up so bad by peers all along the way, how is it possible that songs with ridiculously incorrect statements get major cuts without getting caught in the process?
Bueller?
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