Paul McCartney Admits That His Songs Can Be Formulaic In New Interview -
Paul McCartney is one of the most successful songwriters in history. He’s penned almost too many major smash singles to count, and those who have listened to them may begin to notice some similarities between them. In a new interview, the former Beatle admitted that some of his tunes may follow a blueprint he likes to use—or at least one he leaned on early in his career.
“There was a certain formula,” McCartney admitted, up front, when talking about the composition of some of his earliest hits. The rocker clarified what he meant by adding, “the pronoun I, you, me, him, her, my, she…”
McCartney has been known to use—or some might say overuse—pronouns in a certain way in his work. But while some may call that formulaic, he explained that there was a reason behind this decision...and it wasn’t because it was what he and his collaborators were used to, or even that they were simply lazy.
“Because we wanted to contact the fans, there were songs to contact the people with,” McCartney shared when talking about whether or not he felt that his songs were formulaic at the time they were written. He’s referring to many of his Beatles-era cuts, especially some of the earliest examples of their globe-dominating smashes.
Source: Hugh McIntyre/forbes.com
