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  1. Lyrical / contextual / regional / accuracy question:
    If I use the phrase "gone off my/her head" in song lyrics as a person from Kansas, USA, is that going to be incomprehensibly British to my "average" listener (which is zero people, I know that, ok, I just crave CLARITY) or at best seem pretentious and jarringly out of place / context?

    Yea, yea, I know. Who cares.
    I care about these things.
    There's no excuse for sloppiness or ineffability just for the sake of "cleverness."


    #songwriting #lyrics #slang #dialect #phrases #gone-off-her-head #writing #regional #language
  2. Lyrical / contextual / regional / accuracy question:
    If I use the phrase "gone off my/her head" in song lyrics as a person from Kansas, USA, is that going to be incomprehensibly British to my "average" listener (which is zero people, I know that, ok, I just crave CLARITY) or at best seem pretentious and jarringly out of place / context?

    Yea, yea, I know. Who cares.
    I care about these things.
    There's no excuse for sloppiness or ineffability just for the sake of "cleverness."


    #songwriting #lyrics #slang #dialect #phrases #gone-off-her-head #writing #regional #language