How Does The Surprising Enemy Of Good Songwriting Work?

The surprising enemy of good songwriting is something that hides inside every great song, it’s like a sneaky helper who sometimes makes things better and sometimes messes them up.

Imagine you're building a tower with blocks, and each block is a part of the song. Most of the time, adding more blocks makes the tower taller and stronger, just like how adding more lyrics or melodies can make a song better. But if you keep stacking blocks too quickly without thinking, your tower might fall over, that’s when the surprising enemy shows up.

This sneaky helper is called repetition, and it’s both helpful and tricky. When you repeat a line in a song, it helps people remember it, like how repeating a word makes it stick in your mind. But if you use too much repetition without changing things up, like always saying the same thing, it can make the song feel boring, just like stacking all the same blocks on top of each other.

So, to write a great song, you need to know when to let repetition help you and when to step back and try something new. That’s how the surprising enemy of good songwriting works!