Anyone see this on RTE 1 ?
What a let down. Advertised as songwriters discussing the craft of songwriting, I thought, this sounds promising.
Instead we got half an hour of hyper jump cut photography with tedious soundbites from a load of pschologists and sociologists using big words to tell us all that, shock, horror...eh people love music. ( An unintentionally hilarious low point came from some pretentious twat talking about what a masterpiece of musical construction "I Should Be so Lucky" is. ) f**k all from real, actual songwriters except one or two soundbites from Neil Hannon and Damien Dempsey. The whole sorry exercise had a staggeringly pretentious air about it and the production and photography seemed to be aimed at an audience with attention deficit disorder.
File under Missed Opportunity.
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