Eloquence is a Blur!

 

Music has always been a love of mine, especially lyrics.

I am the type of person who really listens to songs to discover what an artist is trying to say. This has meant that I have often found myself finding songs which can indicate my current mood, things that have happened to me or that can pinpoint huge events in my life. But that is a whole different blog post!

Recently, I have been enjoying watching documentaries about music acts which have fascinated me. I started off with an Elton John documentary where I found myself deeply fascinated about how Elton can see lyrics and muster up the melody to accompany it....genius! Last night, I became completely transfixed with the Blur Documentary "To The End" on Sky Arts. 

I grew up in the 90s and both my husband and I were sent back on a journey to our teenage years as we heard some of the tracks. My husband recalled how he would study to the Leisure album and I remember chatting to my friends at secondary school about Modern Life is Rubbish. What struck me the most from the programme was just how eloquently the band speak. I loved the language that they used so effortlessly and naturally as they described their experiences and memories.

It led to a discussion about eloquence.

"Well, they are creative, creative types tend to speak like that" my husband noted.

Hang on? So, am I not a true creative because I don't speak eloquently? I started to doubt myself. Do I not read enough to find these words coming effortlessly from my lips? Is this something I need to work on?? Maybe I haven't been in the right circles or found myself in the right situation for eloquent speaking?

When you look back at the lyrics of "Parklife" the eloquence is there.....maybe my work because of it's target age demographic doesn't require eloquence? It really has made me think!

Then I realised that perhaps I am doing it in my own way, and when I don't realise it. For example, I was chatting away to my youngest daughter the other day about the washing, telling her one of the Christmas socks was "eluding" me. "That's a fab word, Mum! What does that mean?" The last time she asked me that, she ended up using a word I had taught her in her writing at school. Maybe to her, that was a very eloquent word!

Maybe to be more eloquent you have to be talking about something that you are passionate about. That is when the language you use becomes more subject based and effortlessly more descriptive. 

Whether I am or not is a total blur, but I am going to try and make an conscious effort to become more eloquent with my writing......we shall see!