{"id":16190,"date":"2020-01-11T12:12:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T18:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=16190"},"modified":"2020-01-11T12:26:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T18:26:35","slug":"never-let-the-lyric-get-in-the-way-of-the-groove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/11\/never-let-the-lyric-get-in-the-way-of-the-groove\/","title":{"rendered":"never let the lyric get in the way of the groove"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/thecreativeindependent.com\/people\/songwriter-allee-willis-on-building-your-own-joyful-universe\/?utm_source=Daily&amp;utm_campaign=7084106985-tcidaily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_3742c429c9-7084106985-179407449http:\/\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16197\" src=\"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Allee-Willis_0211C-V-778x1024.jpg\" alt=\"allee willis, courtesy of the creative independent\" width=\"575\" height=\"756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Allee-Willis_0211C-V-778x1024.jpg 778w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Allee-Willis_0211C-V-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Allee-Willis_0211C-V-768x1010.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Allee-Willis_0211C-V-1168x1536.jpg 1168w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Allee-Willis_0211C-V.jpg 1487w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>from the obituary of songwriter and artist and all-around inspiration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/25\/arts\/music\/allee-willis-dead.html\">allee morris <\/a>(inspired to learn more about her from this <a href=\"https:\/\/thecreativeindependent.com\/people\/songwriter-allee-willis-on-building-your-own-joyful-universe\/?utm_source=Daily&amp;utm_campaign=7084106985-tcidaily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_3742c429c9-7084106985-179407449\">interview<\/a>):<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Gs069dndIYk\">\u201cSeptember,\u201d <\/a>[written by morris], released in 1978, was an instant smash and went on to become a staple at wedding receptions, with its driving beat and its opening lines, \u201cDo you remember\/The 21st night of September?,\u201d all but guaranteed to propel people onto the dance floor.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>She told NPR in 2014 that while she was working on the song with Maurice White, the leader of Earth, Wind &amp; Fire, she was annoyed by the recurring nonsense phrase he had written, \u201cBa-dee-ya.\u201d She asked Mr. White what it meant, and he said, \u201cWho cares?\u201d That led her to a revelation: \u201cI learned my greatest lesson ever in songwriting from him, which was never let the lyric get in the way of the groove.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the obituary of songwriter and artist and all-around inspiration, allee morris (inspired to learn more about her from this interview): \u201cSeptember,\u201d [written by morris], released in 1978, was an instant smash and went on to become a staple at wedding receptions, with its driving beat and its opening lines, \u201cDo you remember\/The 21st night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16190"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16207,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16190\/revisions\/16207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}