Song title poetry challenge April

Euro disco challenge

For April’s song title poetry I want you to sing along to Euro disco music. Old, classics, or old trash music well some of those songs are true signature melodies of a time past. Pump up the jam, Brother Louie, Everlasting Love, Voyage Voyage, You’re a woman, Ride on Time, Yes sir, I can boogie… You can bring class or you can go trash. We don’t judge, ok? This is supposed to be fun and bring some memories of you on the dance floor to tracks you wish you could dance to today!

Make a collection of song titles that you associate with Eurodisco tracks. It can be collaborations, duets, solo projects, from one artist or band, or a mix of various artists. Then arrange the titles in a way that you get a poem out of using the song titles only. You can repeat a song title as much as you want. After you’ve arranged titles into a poem, if you want include a list to the artists behind the songs.

If you want to do songs in another language you can. May I suggest you also put the artists’ names in your comments at the end so it’s clear whom the songs belong to. Look at previous Song Title Poems. (Every first Friday of the month, since June 2024 or everyday in May 2024 to get ideas).

We dedicate the first Friday of the month to a themed song title poetry. We covered a lot of artists and genres in May and we also left out certain types of music. Those posts and poems are available to read and comment on as they aren’t paywalled.

Post your song title poem in the comments below and share it on notes and maybe even do your own post about it. Up to you! And do post the link in comments if you do post on your site. Always, keep a copy for your own record. I need you on this one because “I Don’t Know Anybody Else”.

This April I also run NaPoWriMo so you can write your own poem based on the theme of the day. Join us for 30 days, 30 poems on here.

During NaPoWriMo 2024 one of the prompts made me write a tribute to The Cardigans, fronted by the lovely Nina Persson. I took some of their song titles, rearranged them into a poem and so my first song title poem was born. I started with a song I could remember first and continued building the poem by adding titles that fitted in the story I wanted to tell. You can read that poem and some of the comments here on my publication. The song title poetry evolved to something more than random titles thrown together. In May a group of us wrote a poem designated to a letter a day until the whole alphabet was over.

My understanding is titles are not copyright issue. As the lines of song title poetry are all quotes from titles and as song titles they are not copyright material we are ok. I would ask that you in your posts, comments Notes etc make clear that the work is based on song titles and whose they are. We’re not adding any words of our own, I know some of you are… but you know - I’m not judging! Be very very clear to what part is yours and what part is the song title, use “quotation” marks to be on the safe side if you mix words which are yours in. Ideally, try to leave your words out and see what you come up with.

Don’t change the titles in anyway and don’t talk badly about the band/song if you wish to stay out of trouble.

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Fotini Masika

Treasa Purcell

Margaret Ann Silver

Jonathan Potter

Chris J. Franklin

Dick Whyte

Gordon Schenck

Darienne

Tom Shaw

non sibi cunctis

man of aran

PS Lorcan

Gloria Horton-Young

Steve Spencer

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May is finally around the corner… we’ll be doing a 31 day challenge with song titles! Get ready to have fun!