Thread: Do you write to music?

I love to write to music. Every song i hear is a story. I used to think that my perfect career would be to make music videos as every song i heard played in my brain like a featured film.
so i have two questions. Do you write to music? Do you think writing to music is bad? The reason i ask the second is because as with all media one is suppose to draw an emotional response from its audience. Generally one must feel that empotion to be able to acurately portray it to another. Therfore is it back to write to music as the music is creating the emotional response in the writer and not the writing or is it good for the writer being that the writer is feeling that emotional and is able to accurately portray it to his or her audience.

What? I just confused myself.

FYI....I haven't smoked pot since college and that was nearly a decade ago.

No I don't think writing to music is bad. Whatever it takes to generate the needed emotional or physical energy to push your story along, go with. However, know that whatever music, movie, book you take your idea from is going to be influenced on some level by that median

Wow... I didn't even think of the subconcious effect the words would have. Excellent point!

dear music,
i hope all is well. i wasn't too happy about you blowing your own trumpet the other day. you only exist for the purpose of entertaining us. how long do you think you'd last, left alone in a room to your own devices? so get back on track and sing me a song i want to hear.
whatever,
mike

I also mis-interpreted the title Mike, but for me it was "Some times the music comes first, sometimes the lyric comes first, sometimes they come together."