Rhyming like the Beatles
- Amanda Riddell
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- Mar 7
- 1 min read
Their rhyming is sloppy by 1950's standards, but very tight by 2020's standards.
It's more proto-punk than sloppy: they deconstruct pop in their early albums.
They were beat kids being clever by mocking all the old conventions.
That's definitely part of AM 2.
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Nevertheless, they have multisyllable rhymes that are perfect.
Unlike modern pop, their song structures depend on rhyme.
They often don't pronounce the final consonant in 'girl/world' rhymes, or so late that it almost sounds like another word.
Hence their rhymes lock in pretty strongly on a first listen.
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John uses slant rhymes for effect. That's more like proto-rap.
Their style is usually to sing their emotion, but some is performance art.
In my album, I'm attempting to stay ahead of the flow, which is another John trait.
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