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The power of 'you'

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Mar 21
  • 1 min read

Is one of my obsessions as a writer, particularly in a pop lyric. The second person is underrated as a narrative mode. John and Paul were all about that in their Beatles lyrics. Wrote a high school story in second person that would make a neat Fable. Waiting to exhume my hard drives.

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Mar 21

Revolution is the go-to example re: Beatles lyrics. It's that observer mode, but with the bonus of using the 'you' gestalt I'm referencing.

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Mar 21
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The Fable is a dream I had as a teenager about walking to Burnside, and then it got strange and surreal after the principal shot me a dirty look. He didn't like all the queers in the music department. Came from a rugby school.

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